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US 4,543,912 AGranted
Watering system for fowl
AssigneeVal Products, Inc.
InventorFrederick W. Steudler, Jr.
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AssigneeVal Products, Inc.
InventorFrederick W. Steudler, Jr.
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This disclosure is directed to a watering system for fowl, such as chickens, ducks or the like, as well as other small animals, which is specifically adapted for use with cages, the system includes a plurality of pipes, each pipe having a plurality of aligned valved dispensing nozzles, and a coupling providing fluid communication between adjacent aligned pipes, each coupling having a uniplanar locating surface preferably in the form of terminal end faces of a pair of parallel disposed legs, and an adhesive or the equivalent securing each coupling to its associated pipe with a plane through the terminal faces of the legs being normal to the axes of the valved dispensing nozzles whereby when the end faces of the legs of each coupling are placed upon a reference surface, such as top horizontally disposed wires of a cage, the valved dispensing nozzles are normal to the horizontal, and thus operate in a repetitively efficient manner in the absence of malfunctioning which might otherwise occur if such nozzles were inclined to the horizontal.
A fluid flow orientation system comprising a pipe having axially opposite end portions and a passage therethrough through which fluid is adapted to flow along a first path of travel, at least one opening in said pipe having an axis disposed in transverse relationship to said passage for diverting the fluid flow from said first path of travel to a second path of travel at a predtermined angle to said first path of travel, a coupling, means fixing said coupling to one of said pipe end portions and said coupling having means for defining a uniplanar locating surface exteriorly of said coupling at a point said first path of travel which is normal to a reference line passing through said one opening axis and normal to a line tangent to the opening whereby upon orienting said coupling such that said uniplanar locating surface rests upon a reference surface, said second path of travel is likewise automatically oriented in a plane at a desired angle to the reference surface established by the fixed relationship of said coupling and said one pipe end portion.
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