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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
PETER B. LAIDLAW, OF EL PASO, TEXAS.
POULTRY HOUSE AND TEN.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Aug.1'7, 1915.
Application filed January 19, 1914. Serial No. 813,017.
To.all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, PETrm B. LAIDLAW,
citizen of the United States, residing at El
Paso, in the county of El Paso and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Poultry Houses and Pens;
and I do hereby declare the following to be
a full, clear, and exact description of the in-
vention, such as will enable others skilled in
10 the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same, reference being had tothe ac-
companying drawings, and to letters or fig-
ures of reference marked thereon, which
form a part of this specification.
15 My invention relates to poultry houses
and .pens, and more particularly that class
of such devices having housing means in
connection therewith which may at will be
attached or detached to the pen, and is de-
20 signed as an improvement over my prior
Patent No. 1,070,819, August 19, 1913.
The primary object of my invention is to
provide a device of the character described
possessing advantages over the previous
25 construction and to provide a poultry house
and pen more particularly adapted for the
raising of young chickens, poultry, game,
birds, and pet stocks.
Referring to the drawings forming a por-
30 tion of this specification, wherein similar
reference numerals indicate similar parts
wherever used, Figure 1 is a side elevation
of a house and pen embodying the preferred
form of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end ele-
35 vation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view
partly broken away of the house and nest
boxes. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail of one of
the lower panels. Fig. 5 is a top plan view
of the house door in its intermediate posi-
40 tion. Fig. 6 is a detail of the means for
holding the house door in its intermediate
position. Fig. 7 is a top plan view of the de-
vice; Fig. 8 is an elevation thereof.
My invention comprises in its main fea-
45 tures the house or cover portion 7, the pens
8-8, a space or vestibule 9 between the
house and the pens, and nest box 10 attached
to the rear of the house portion 7. The
house or main portion 7 is provided at its
50 front with a flap door 11, adapted to swing
up and back into the various positions shown
in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Within the house 7 is
formed a floor 12, which is slidably mounted
therein, and adapted. to be withdrawn by
55 opening a door 13, at the rear of the house
7, as shown in Fig. 3. Adjoining the vesti-bule or space 9, are a plurality of pens 8-8,
composed ;of two or more removable pairs
of side sections 14-14, and 'the removable
end section 15. The. construction of these 60
panels is practically the same as that de-
scribed in prior Letters Patent No. 1,070,819,
and need not be specifically described here.
The improvement in these panel sections
consists in forming notches 16 in the top 65
stile thereof to -provide the necessary sup-
'port -for cross bars 17, which when placed
therein lie flush with the top surface of the
slide and form a support for the upper and
mo able pen sections when turned down to 70
form a roofed pen.
As shown in Fig. 3 the nest boxes and the
house section are removably attached to each
other by means of hooks 18 as in the pre-
vious patented construction. The door 11 75
for the house 7 is composed of rectangular
frame work having a bar 19 on the front
thereof, which bar is provided with a slot
20 therethrough and having on the inside of
said bar adjacent the slide guides 21 and 22 80
adapted to engage a slidable member 23,
having thereon a knob 24 adapted to project
upwardly and through the slot 20 and to be
slidably held in position thereby.
Referring more particularly to Fig. 5 85
which shows in partly broken section the top
pen sections when turned down, 25 and 26
represent the upper sections of the panels
for the pen when turned down in the posi-
tion to form a roofed pen. 17 designates one 9
of the cross bars shown in Fig. 1, sections 25
and 26 being turned down until they rest
thereon.
Should it now be desired to place the door
11 upon a level with the down turned panel 95
sections 25 and 26 in order to form a contin-
uous roof from the end of the pen to the
framework of the house, the door 11 is raised
to the intermediate position shown in Fig. 1,
and the knob 24 operated to slide the mem- 100
ber 23 rearwardly until the edge 27 thereof
is flush with the outside edge of the front
bar 19. The door is then free to swing up-
wardly until above the level of the down
turned pen sections, when the member 23 is 105
slid forwardly by means of the handle 24
until the portion 27 projects in front of the
bar 19, when the door is lowered, the mem-
ber 23 resting upon the meeting edges 28-29
of the down turned upper panels 25 and 26. 11(
Preferably and as shown, the panel sec-
tions are rectangular frames covered with1,150,774.
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Laidlaw, Peter B. Poultry House and Pen, patent, August 17, 1915; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth858398/m1/3/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.