Watering cup for poultry and animals
AssigneeZiggity Systems, Inc.
InventorEldon Hostetler
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Abstract
A watering cup for fowl and animals has a telescopic valved and sealed fit of a normally closed valved tubular part of a cup housing within a normally closed valved depending tubular outlet of a water supply line and a hook interlock of said telescoping parts. A cup pivoted in the cup housing below the valved tubular cup part has a projection for opening the valve of the tubular cup housing part and a spring controlled by adjustable tensioning means urges said cup and its projection toward valve opening position when less than a selected quantity of water is contained in the cup.
Claims6
A water supply conduit having a plurality of longitudinally spaced outlets at its lowermost surface,
- a clamp encircling said conduit at each outlet and including a downwardly projecting water tube communicating with a conduit outlet and an upwardly projecting electrically non-conductive part,
- a normally closed first valve in said clamp tube,
- a valved water dispensing unit,
- quick detachable means connecting said dispensing unit to said clamp tube, and
- means for holding said first valve in open position when said dispensing unit is connected to said clamp tube,
- said upwardly projecting non-conductive clamp part including means for releasably positioning an electrically charged cable spaced above said conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.