Specification of Joseph Cuff the younger : slaughtering cattle.

  • Cuff, Joseph.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Joseph Cuff the younger : slaughtering cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cuff's Machinery for Slaughtering Cattle._ tlio manner of making1 and using tlic same, to be inrolled in His Majesty s High Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso,' I, the said 5 Joseph Cuff the younger, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven¬ tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained as follows, that is to say In the Drawings hereunto annexed, Figure 1 denotes and exhibits the whole of my said machinery, except the front of the stye or pen in which the 10 animal is in the first instance confined, as herein-after mentioned (the said front being supposed to be taken away in order to shew the lower part of the inside of the said stye or pen); and Figure 2 denotes a vertical section of the said machinery, seen endwise ; and Figure 3 denotes a section or plan of the said machinery; and Figures 4, 5, and 6 denote certain instruments. And 15 in all the said Drawings the same letters of the alphabet are applied to denote the same parts or things. The letter A denotes a piece of machinery which may be of any convenient and well-known construction, to give purchase or mechanical advantage to the man who is to be employed in raising the animal to be slaughtered. In the Drawing the winch and barrel is the form 20 adopted, having a ratchet wheel and click to hold, and a lowering bar or lever a, which is to be pressed against the wheel b when the animal is to be lowered. B, B, B, is the rope or fall of a tackle, which proceeds from the • barrel, and is reefed through the tackles by which the animal is raised up. C represents an animal when first hoisted. D, a boy who hooks the eye of 25 the double sling 0 upon an hook I or K, at which time the man at A lowers and the beast becomes suspended, as at E. M, M, M, is a row of hooks, upon one of which a guy rope from the strap of the upper block is hooked, according to the position in which the tackle is required to be worked. N is a sling which is to be put round the leg of the animal F, and then hooked to 30 the double sling O, of which last description of slings a sufficient number is hung in readiness upon the hooks H, by means of which the animal is con¬ fined and in readiness for the tackle in case there should be any occasion to wait. L, L, is a pole or piece upon which the tackle can be slided and made to stay in any required position. P, P, in the section and plan, Figures 2 35 and 3, denotes the front wall or limiting partition of the pen or stye, with a roller at top to impede the escape of the animal by throwing him back, in rase he should make a leap. ligure C is an hook and staff, or instrument for