Combined ventilator and feeder for avian
OwnerGilbert L. Powersinventor
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Abstract
A combined ventilator and fluent material feeder for avian including air recirculating and conditioning means. The ventilating and feeder units include self-feeders for both loose food material and drinking water. Each typically includes a trough encircling a storage chamber as well as an air distributor for supplying ventilating air across the floor and outwardly from beneath the feeding troughs as used dirt-laden air is withdrawn from above the feeding troughs.
Claims13
A combination ventilator and fluent material feeder suspendable from an overhead support in a building for avian with the lower feeding end thereof spaced above the building floor, said feeder having a downwardly discharging air supply passage and a storage chamber for fluent material opening into a feeding trough at a convenient feeding height for avian free of obstructions opposite the outer edge thereof, means for supplying fluent material to said storage chamber to maintain said feeding trough filled, and means for circulating air downwardly through said air passage and outwardly over the building floor in the space between the floor and the under side of said trough and about the feet of avian while feeding from said feeding trough.
That improvement in the ventilating and feeding equipment for a building housing avian which improvement comprises:
- a plurality of combination feeder and ventilator devices suspendable from overhead support means distributed about the interior of the building with the lower ends thereof spaced close to but above the floor, each of said devices having a downwardly directed air discharge passage and a storage chamber for fluent material opening at its lower end in a feeding trough along the perimeter of said air discharge passage, and power driven means for circulating air to the upper ends of each of said air passages and outwardly over the floor from beneath said feeding troughs and upwardly into the building from about the feet of avian while grouped along said feeding troughs.
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