US2358938A - Chicken brooder - Google Patents

Description

Sept. 26, 1944;

c. L. MURRAY CHICKEN 3300mm Filed Feb, 19,1943

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CHICKEN BROODER Patented Sept. 26, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE V c CHICKEN BROODER Charles L. Murray, Waco, Tex. Application February 19, 1943, Serial No. 476,443

2 Claims.

This invention relatesto chicken brooders, and the primary object of the, present invention is to provide a device of this kind which is comparav tively simple in construction, highly eificient for the intended use, and easy to maintain and operate.

' "*Specific objects and features of the invention will become apparent from the following description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the invention consists in the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view, partly broken away and in section, of a brooder constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a front elevational view thereof.

Figure 3 is a substantially central longitudinal sectional view of the same, taken on line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is asubstantially central transverse sectional view of ,the same, taken on line 4-4 of Figure 1; and I Figure 5 is a wiring diagram showing the ar-. rangement of the heatin and associated elements in an electrical circuit.

Referring in detail to the drawings, the present brooder includes a horizontal elongated rectangular base frame 5 provided with corner supporting legs 6. The bottom of the frame 5 is closed by means of a depending pan-shaped member I which is closed at the top by a flat wall 8 having a series of warm air outlet openings along the sides and ends of the same as at 9. Movable through the front wall of the frame 5 and slidably mounted on guide rails R above the cover plate or wall 8 are drawer-like dropping pans I- whose outer side and end walls are located inwardly of the openings 9 as shown clearly in Figures 3 and 4. Thus, the pans II], which are provided at the front with knobs or handles ll, may be readily removed for disposal of the droppings in an obvious manner.

Disposed upon the base frame is a rectangular casing [2 having side and end walls In and [2b whose lower edges terminate above the base frame 5 to provide passages as at l3. Mounted or built suitably on the casing H! at the sides are feed boxes Hi from which the feed may flow by gravity through the passages l3 to the interior of the casing H for access by the chicks within said casing. Similarly, water troughs I 5 are mounted at the ends of casing l2 from which water may pass by gravity through the passages 13 to the vby means of a partial partition ll depending from the top of the casing l2 and a vertically slotted fabric curtain l8 depending from said partitionto a point in proximity to the floor l6. One compartment is covered by glass panels I 9, while the top of the other compartment may be left open.

In warm weather, the chicks may safely pass into the open compartment, while they may seek refuge Within the compartment, which is covered by the glass panels l9, for warmth. Both compartments may receive heated air from the chamber defined within'the pan shaped member 1 and its cover 8,

which air passes through the warm air escape openings 9 upwardly into the casing I 2. Said air may be heated by means of suitable heating elements such as heating lamps 20 disposed in a longitudinal series within the chamber defined by member I and its cover 8 upon a suitable support as at 2|. The member "I may have a suitably located inlet for admittance of outside air to be heated by lamps 20. These heating elements may be placed in parallel in a heating circuit as shown in Figure 5, and a pilot lamp 22 may also be provided in this circuit in parallel with the heating elements or lamps 20 as is also shown in Figure 5, said pilot lamp being suitably mount ed where desired, such as at the top of the partition I! where it may be readily seen so as to note when the heating lamps are in operation. Also included in this heating circuit is a thermostat 23 which controls the operation ofthe heating elements or lamps Z0 and may be suitably mounted in the heating chamber defined by the member I and its cover -B. By this means, the temperature within the closed covered chamber located beneath the panels l9, may be automatically regulated. Current may be supplied to the heating circuit by means of a suitable attachment cord 24, one end of which may be plugged into a rein operation, the chambers of the casing [2 may be supplied with warm air, the chamber beneath the glass panels 19 being kept the warmer by the confinement of most of the warm air therein. Droppings may be forced through the foraminous floor I6 when they do not naturally fall therethrough, and these droppings, which are received by the dropping pans 10, may be readily disposed of by removal of the drawers of which the dropping pans form parts. The supply of water and feed to the troughs l5 and boxes l4 may be readily replenished from time to time as found necessary, reserve supply feed bottles B being provided for supplying water to the troughs l5 by the barometric principle.

From the foregoing description, it will be seen that I have provided a chicken brooder which is well adapted for carrying out the stated objects of the invention. 1

What I claim as new is:

1. A chicken brooder comprising a horizontal rectangular base frame provided with corner supporting legs, a pans'haped member closing" the bottom of said base frame and provided with a flat top wall so as to define a heating chamber, said top wall having marginal warm air escape openings, a drawer embodying a dropping pan removably slidably mounted in the base frame above said cover for the heating chamber, a casing mounted on the base frame and having end and side walls terminating above the bottom of said casing to form passages, feed boxes and by glass panels.

water troughs mounted respectively on the sides and end of said casing and arranged for the passage of feed and water therefrom inwardly through said passages, and heating means within the heating chamber, said casing having a foraminous floor through which droppings may pass to the dropping pan.

2. A chicken brooder comprising a horizontal rectangular base frame provided with corner supporting legs, a pan shaped member closing the bottom of said base frame and provided with a fiat top wall so as to define a heating chamber, said top wall having marginal warm air escape openings, a drawer embodying a dropping pan removably slidably mounted in the base frame above said cover for the heating chamber, a casing mounted on the base frame and having end and side walls terminating above the bottom of said casing to form passages, a foraminous floor for the casing above said drawer, feed boxes and water troughs mounted respectively on the sides and end of said casing and arranged for the passage of feed and water therefrom inwardly through said passages, and heating means within the heating chamber, said casing being divided into two compartments by means of a longitudinal partial partition and a cloth vertically slitted curtain depending from said partition, one of said compartments having the top thereof covered CHARLES L: MURRAY,

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