Livestock oiling apparatus with highly compact configuration

A system for facilitating application of a substance to a surface of a body of a livestock animal, the system comprising:

• a substance receptive element configured to be moistened by the substance and configured to transfer a quantity of the substance to the surface of the body of the livestock animal when the surface comes into contact with the receptive element, the receptive element being elongate with opposite ends;
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• a support apparatus supporting the substance receptive element, the opposite ends of the receptive element being removably secured to the support apparatus at spaced locations on the apparatus, the support apparatus having a central axis extending between a top and a bottom of the apparatus, the support apparatus comprising:
• a central base toward the bottom of the apparatus;
• an upstanding stanchion mounted on the central base and being elongated along the central axis to extend toward the top of the apparatus;
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• a plurality of legs mounted on the base, each leg being elongated with an inboard end and an outboard end;
• wherein each of the legs is movable between a collapsed position with respect to the central base and an expanded position with respect to the central base, the collapsed position corresponding to a transport condition of the support apparatus and the expanded position corresponding to a deployed condition of the support apparatus;
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• wherein the central base includes a plurality of mounting structures with a said mounting structure being associated with each of the legs for mounting said leg to the base, the mounting structures securing the legs to the central base in the collapsed position of the transport condition and the expanded position of the deployed condition.

A support apparatus for supporting a substance receptive element to transfer a substance to a surface of a body of the livestock animal, the support apparatus having a central axis extending between a top and a bottom of the apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

• a central base toward the bottom of the apparatus;
• an upstanding stanchion mounted on the central base and being elongated along the central axis to extend toward the top of the apparatus;
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• a plurality of legs mounted on the base, each leg being elongated with an inboard end mounted on the central base and an outboard end for resting on a ground surface;
• wherein each of the legs is movable between a collapsed position with respect to the central base and an expanded position with respect to the central base, the collapsed position corresponding to a transport condition of the support apparatus and the expanded position corresponding to a deployed condition of the support apparatus;
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• wherein the central base includes a plurality of mounting structures with a said mounting structure being associated with a said leg of the plurality of the legs for mounting said leg to the central base;
• wherein each mounting structure of the plurality of mounting structures is configured to releasably secure the associated leg in the expanded position characterized by the leg extending along an axis which forms an obtuse angle with the stanchion to raise the central base off of the ground surface on which the outboard end of the leg is rested, each of the mounting structures including:
• a channel configured to receive an inboard end portion of the corresponding leg in the expended position of the associated leg;
• a securing pin removably inserted into a securing aperture in the leg and into a securing hole in the channel to secure the associated leg in the expanded position.