Stock Watering Trough with Heating Tank (Patent No: 571431)

Inventor: Anderson, James W.

Location: Bentley

Comments: N/A

Description: 571,431
Issued March 3, 1959
Stock Watering Trough with Heating Tank
James W. Andersen, Bentley, Alberta, Canada Application May 11, 1956, Serial No. 707,191
1 Claim

A stock watering unit consisting of a drinking trough and a fire box below the trough for heating the water therein, said fire box having a flue outlet, and a further unit connected to supply water to the trough, said further unit comprising a storage tank separate from the stock watering unit and connected to supply water thereto, and means for heating the water in the storage tank by hot gases expelled from the flue outlet of the fire box, said means including an outer casing oversize of the storage tank and in which casing said tank is suspended with a space intervening between the casing and tank, said casing including an inlet at one lower end connected to receive the hot gases from the fire box flue outlet and said casing having a flue outlet at the opposite upper end for escape of the gases and including baffles in the casing, said baffles comprising a series of plates adapted to cause the gapes to move rearwardly from the flue inlet to the'rear of the casing and then forwardly to the front of the casing before escaping through the casing flue outlet.