US174644A - Improvement in bird-cages - Google Patents

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if G. SEYFANG.

BIRD-CAGE.

No.174.64;4. Patented Mar*eh14,1876.

UNHEE SrE'rEs PATENT FEOE.

GEORGE sEYFANG, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BIRD-CAGES.

Speeliication forming part of Letters Patent No. [74.644, dated March 14, 1876 application filed May 15, 1R75.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, GEORGE SEYFANG, of Buffalo, in the'county of Erie and State of New Yorlqhave inventedr certain new and useful Improvementsin irdages; land I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

' clear, and exact description thereof, having reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in Whieh- Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of a bird-cage embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of one of the horizontal bands. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the food-cup. Fig. 4 is atop, and Fig. 5 a bottom, view of the same.

Like letters of reference indicate similar parts in the various figures.

The rst part of my present invention relates to the fastening of the vertical lilling- Wires Within the horizontal bands, and the second part relates to the feed-cups and their nature and particulars of construction, which will be first described and then pointed out in l the claims.

A is the body of a bird-cage, made in the usual forms, of brass or other Wire.' B are the horizontal bands, and C the vertical filling- Wires. These horizontal bands B are made of Wire, suitably provided with perforations U' to receive the vertical filling-Wires C, fastened Within the said bands B Without solder by providing these bands with indeutations D, produced therein by suitable means, so as to compress the metal around the perforations, and thus cause the same to impinge upon the lling-wires sufficiently to hold them in their proper position. y y

A result similar to that described has, to some extent, been produced by passing the bands between rollers after the insertion of the filling-Wires, and to swage them so as to cause the perforations to elongate, andv thus impinge upon the filling-Wires to hold them in their place. This mode of fastening the Wires is faulty in that the perforations become oblong, and thus cause open spaces on each side of the lling-Wires, Where acid will be retained after the cages are dipped, and Where vermin and other impurities Will accumulate that are injurious to the bird. These open spaces` cannot Well be closed by any amount of rolll ing the bands, as this operation is limited, to

a great extent, by the stretchingof the said bands, and, if carried on to excess, will seriously aii'ect their strength, because the band will stretch most around the perforations and harden the metal so much as to cause it to break, while the unequal expansion of the different bands will distigure the cage. These obstacles I have overcome by stamping, or

otherwise producing, in the bandsafter the insertion of the filling-Wires, indentations D on each side of and parallel With the said tilling-wires.

thus causelthe perforations to close up all around and impinge upon the said filling-Wires without leaving open spaces, 811e., and Without ai'ecting the strength of the bands, since the transverse section through the indentations is still greater then than through the perforated part of the bands.

E is the feed cup of my cage. It is made of glass or porcelain, and has in its upper edge notches or in-dentations E', by means of which it engages with a locking-bar, F. The bottom of this feed-cup E is provided with a circular projection, Gr, having also notches I, which engage with the .band B. One-half of the circumference of the food-cup is plain, and the other, that outside of the cage, corrugated,

longitudinally, and the cup is inserted into the cage by raising the bar F, which slides upon two of the lilling-Wires C, and between the bands B B', one of which being a section only of sufficient length to retain the broken ends of the filling-wires C, removed to produce the opening for the food-cup, suflieiently to pass `thecup into the open space provided for that purpose, and by it is held in proper position by the notches E and I, in conjunction With the band B and locking-bar F. In order to prevent the food-cup from being pushed entirely into the cage, I provide the same with projections'X, which Will engage with indentations K in the lling-wires U, and thus insure the proper location of the feedeup. lhese feed-cups, being an article of commerce, are of a size smaller than the space providedA for them-the distance between a certain number of illing-Wires-and, in order to enable me to use these feed-cups, I provide the respective These indentations will condense the metal surrounding the filling-Wires,*andl filling-wires ,with projections K, which, engaging with the longitudinal corrugations or projection X, on the food-cup, will prevent its being pushed into the cage. If food-cups are made of a size sufeiently large, or the projections X, provided thereon, of a sucient length, I am enabled to discard the projections K in the said filling-wires. The retaining-bar F serves the double purpose of holding the feed-cups in proper positionV and of closing the opening therefor after the removal of the said feed-cups.

Having thus fully described my invention, in order to enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, I desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. The bands B B', provided with the perfo- GEO. SEYFANG. Witnesses:

MICHAEL J. STARK, GEO. J. MUNSGHAUER.

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