US972849A - Stanchion. - Google Patents

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R. M. GLOR. STANGHION. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2a, 1908.

Patented Oct. 18,1910.

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STANGHION. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28, 1908.

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ROBERT M. GLOR, OF ATTICA, NEW YORK.

STANCHION.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct, 18, 1910.

Application filed November 28, 1908. Serial No. 464,916.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT M. GLoR, of Attlca, Wyoming county, New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stanchions, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in stanchion construction, and the object of my invention is to produce a structure of this character which is adapted to provide an absolutely secure but yet exceedingly easy fastening for cattle, which fastening will give them great freedom of movement but yet will hold them so that they cannot possibly get loose accidentally.

My invention is intended further to produce a simple yet strong structure in which the cattle can be easily secured or as easily released.

To these ends, and with the general idea of making a comfortable, economical, strong, sanitary construction of the kind described, my invention consists of certain features of construction which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters substantial indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the stanchion construction showing my improvements. Fig. 2 is an enlarged broken detail longitudinal section of the stanchion, showing the same in position to release a cow or other creature. Fig. 3 is a detail View partly in section, showing the stanchion in locked posit-ion, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal section looking up on the line 66 of Fig. 5.

The stanchion has a framework 10 of a character, consisting of the upper sill, top piece, and vertical studs, which can be of any necessary length, and which as usual in such structures, is arranged so that the heads of the cattle stick through it. I11 this frame are mounted the stanchions, each comprising an upright 12,

a base piece l3,'a top piece 14 longer than the base, and a locking bar 15 which is pivoted in the base and swings in the top piece 14. The base pieces and top pieces 13 and 14 are hollowed out in the center, or in other words are made of parallel strips having stops 13 and 14 at the outer ends. This is shown clearly in Fig. 2. Thus the locking bar 15 swings freely in the base piece 13, and also in the top piece 14, the movement being limited by the stops 13 and 14 At the top and bottom of the upright 12 are brackets 16 and 17 which project inward, and which are journaled in the frame 10, as shown clearly at 18 and 19. The top bracket 16 is prolonged to form a buffer 20 against which the locking bar 15 swings when the stanchion is in locked position.

The most important feature of the invention is the catch 21, which is in the form of a flat plate secured to a handle 22 which is arranged transversely in the top piece 14, so that the latch can be operated by the handle if desired, although it looks automatically. Near its free end the catch 21 is provided with an offset 23 which is adapted to automatically engage the end of the look ing bar 15 when the latter is swung into vertical position against the buffer 20, and thereby the locking bar is held securely closed. It will be seen that it will be bound in all four directions between the two side walls of the top piece 14 and between the bi'lffer 20 and the offset portion of the catch 21. The bar is released by tilting the handle 22 and thus lifting the catch 21, and the bar can then be swung to the position shown in Fig. 2, and this causes the free end 23 of the catch to enter the recess 24 in the framework 10, and so the stanchion is locked in its released position. Thus it will be seen that when a creature is released from the stanchion, the latter is locked so that it is always in position for the creature to stick its head through between the bars 12 and 15 when driven in, and yet when the stanchion is locked so as to secure the creature, the latter then has a perfectly free movement of its head, as the stanchion rotates on its bearings 1S and 19. I consider this feature of locking the stanchion against rotation when in released position, automatically, an important feature, and it will be seen that the detail construction of the catch 21 can be departed from considerably without affecting the principle of the invention.

The stanchion is provided with off-set portions 25 which are secured to the outside of the bar 12, as shown at 26, for the purpose of preventing a creature from sticking its head through the wrong side of the bar12.

It will be seen from the foregoing description that I have produced a very Simple, convenient, safe and sanitary structure,

Well adapted to the use of cattle when a1" ranged in a tie-up, as is customary Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a stanchion, top and bottom members, a stanchion frame pivotally mounted between said top and bottom members, said frame comprising an upright, laterally extending members at the top and bottom of said upright, each of said laterally extending members consisting of parallel arms, a

locking bar pivoted Within the lower arms and shdable wltlnn the upper arms a removable boltrotatable in the upper arms and having one end formed into a handle, and a metal plate fixed to said bolt and having an offset end, said offset end adapted to be pressed into a recess in the top stanchion member when the locking bar is swung open, said locking bar being engaged by the under face of said plate and wedged in position and said offset end adapted to engage the end of said bar when the latter is closed ROBERT M. GLOR. lVitnesses E. B. SKINNER, R. E. SLACK.

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