Animal feeder system
OwnerMatt Busbiceinventor
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Abstract
A feeder system has a reservoir holds feed, which is to be dispersed according to a desirable, preferred, animal, namely, a livestock animal (e.g., horse, cow, cattle, sheep, goats) and/or game animal (e.g., deer, elk, turkey). The feed contained in the reservoir is dispensed to at least one feed outlet chamber through a corresponding feed outlet in the housing. The inventive animal feeder system helps to prevent unscheduled feeding, water and/or moisture incursion, and access to feed by undesired animals. The present system further limits power draw, to improve deployment longevity of a feeder system, and offers a self-contained complete feeder system to prevent corrosion and unwanted disruption of electrical elements.
Claims20
A feeding system for dispensing animal feed, comprising:
- a housing disposed about a housing axis, the housing having at least one sidewall;
- a plurality of feed outlets in communication with the housing;
- a feed reservoir within the housing;
- wherein a lower bound of the feed reservoir is defined by a directing plate, the directing plate in communication with a first feed outlet of the plurality of feed outlets;
- an actuator assembly residing within the housing;
- wherein the actuator assembly includes a linear actuator having a linear actuator axis, a plurality of gates, and a plurality of connecting arms affixing the linear actuator to the plurality of gates;
- wherein a first gate is positioned parallel to the linear actuator axis, and normal to the first feed outlet;
- wherein the first gate can be actuated between an open position and a closed position by the linear actuator, and the first gate prevents feed in the feed reservoir from moving from the reservoir to the first feed outlet in the closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.