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US 4,379,440 AGranted
Livestock spray apparatus
AssigneeAG Industries International, Ltd.
InventorsDale E. Thedford, Gil C. Wilson
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Abstract
An improved portable livestock spraying apparatus which includes a chute structure and adjustable guidance structure for directing different sizes of animals through the chute in the presence of surrounding spray coverage of selected medicinal solution. The apparatus includes floor structure for solution filtration which effects three-stage filtering of coarse, fines and final fluid output for recycling to the spray head apparatus.
Claims13
Apparatus for livestock spraying which functions with a source of spray solution, comprising:
- chute housing means having opposite sides and roof portions and defining a longitudinal chute way from a livestock entry end to a livestock exit end;
- chassis frame means affixed to and supporting opposite sides of said chute housing means;
- solution spray means disposed longitudinally centrally within said chute housing means and directed across said chute way;
- plural sector filter tank means having a perforate grating thereover and being formed as first sector means disposed at the livestock entry end for entrapment of solid waste, a second sector means disposed generally longitudinally centrally in baffled communication with said first sector means for primary collection of recycled solution, and third sector means disposed adjacent the livestock exit end in screen filter communication with said second sector means;
- at least one holding tank formed as a fluid-tight longitudinal receptacle integral with said chassis frame means and disposed laterally adjacent to said filter tank means in screen filter communication with said third sector means;
- means conducting solution from said at least one holding tank to said source;
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- means conducting solution from said source to said solution spray means.
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