Cattle gate

Claim 1

A CATTLE GATE FOR USE IN CONNECTION WITH A CHUTE CONSISTING OF A PAIR OF SPACED APART VERTICAL AND GENERALLY PARALLEL WALLS, SAID GATE COMPRISING: (A) A BRACKET, (B) MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SAID BRACKET RIGIDLY AT A FIXED ELEVATION ADJACENT ONE OF SAID CHUTE WALLS, (C) AN ELONGATED GATE ARM PIVOTED AT ONE END IN SAID BRACKET FOR MOVEMENT IN A HORIZONTAL PLANE FROM AN OPEN POSITION IN WHICH IT EXTENDS FORWARDLY IN THE DIRCTION OF NORMAL MOVEMENT OF CATTLE THROUGH SAID CHUTE, AND WHEREIN IT IS DISPOSED CLOSELY ADJACENT SAID WALL AND DOES NOT BLOCK SAID CHUTE, TO AN INTERMEDIATE CLOSED POSITION IN WHICH IT EXTENDS PARTIALLY ACROSS AND BLOCKS SAID CHUTE, AND FURTHER TO A RELEASED POSITION IN WHICH IT EXTENDS REARWARDLY IN A DIRECTION OPPOSITE TO THE DIRECTION OF NORMAL MOVEMENT OF CATTLE THROUGH SAID CHUTE, AND WHEREIN IT IS DISPOSED CLOSELY ADJACENT SAID WALL AND DOES NOT BLOCK SAID CHUTE, (D) RESILIENT MEANS CARRIED BY SAID BRACKET AND BIASING SAID GATE ARM AT ALL TIMES IN A DIRECTION TO MOVE IT FROM SAID OPEN POSITION THROUGH SAID INTERMEDIATE CLOSED POSITION TO SAID RELEASED POSITION, AND (E) STOP MEANS CARRIED BY SAID BRACKET AND NORMALLY ARRESTING MOVEMENT OF SAID GATE ARM WHEN SAID ARM IS IN SAID CLOSED POSITION, WHEREBY TO PREVENT MOVEMENT OF SAID ARM TO ITS RELEASED POSITION, SAID STOP MEANS BEING MANUALLY RELEASABLE FROM A POSITION OUTSIDE OF SAID CHUTE.