Watering system for fowl and small animals
AssigneeZiggity Systems, Inc.
InventorEldon Hostetler
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Abstract
A valved discharge member for use with the water supply system for use with cages of fowl and small animals, wherein a valve element in the member engages two spaced valve seats and is unseated by movement laterally and upwardly of a pin extending through a discharge opening and projecting below the housing.
Claims24
In a watering device for fowl and small animals, a valve housing adapted to be connected to a water supply line and having an inlet, an outlet and a valve chamber having a valve seat and a second seat therein, a valve member normally bearing on said valve seat, a valve actuator having clearance in and projecting from said outlet, said actuator having a head within said valve chamber and bearing on said second seat, said actuator head normally being positioned adjacent and confronting said valve member and having a concave surface with a leveraging edge confronting said valve member and positioned and interacting therewith such that said leveraging edge first engages said valve member off center so as to shift said valve member off from said valve seat by leveraged actuation upon tilting movement of said actuator head relative to said second seat caused by slight actuator movement and thereby permit fluid flow from said supply line through said outlet, and said valve member having a convex surface confronting and engageable by said concave surface of said actuator head.
A watering device for fowl and small animals, including a valve housing adapted to be connected to a fluid supply line, said valve housing having an inlet, an outlet, a valve chamber connected between said inlet and said outlet, said valve chamber having therein a valve seat and a valve member engageable with said valve seat to restrict fluid flow between said inlet and said outlet, and a valve actuator means having a portion thereof with clearance within and projecting from said outlet, said valve actuator means including an actuator head, adjacent to and confronting said valve member, and having a recessed portion in its surface confronting said valve member, said recessed portion including a leveraging edge about its circumference, and said valve member having a cooperative projecting portion confronting and at least partially received within said recessed portion such that said valve actuator means interacts with said confronting surface of said valve member through said leveraging edge which first engages said valve member off center to provide leveraged actuation to shift said valve member off of engagement with said valve seat to permit fluid flow between said inlet and said outlet in response to slight tilting movement of said actuator means with respect to said valve member.
A watering device for fowl and small animals comprising:
- a housing having a valve chamber therein with a fluid inlet to said valve chamber and a fluid outlet from said valve chamber;
- said valve chamber including therein first and second seat members spaced apart and at different levels in said valve chamber;
- a ball valve means disposed within said valve chamber for bearing on said first seat member to seal against fluid flow through said valve chamber;
- a valve actuator means disposed partially within said valve chamber for actuating said ball valve means to permit said fluid flow;
- said valve actuator means including an actuator head bearing on said second seat member and a pin portion extending through said outlet with clearance and projecting beyond said outlet;
- said actuator head including an upper surface with a recessed portion adjacent and confronting said ball valve means;
- said recessed portion including an edge region cooperatively associated with said ball valve means such that, upon lateral movement of said valve actuator means in any direction relative to said housing, said edge region provides initial actuation engagement with said ball valve means at a location on said ball valve means spaced apart from that portion of said ball valve means closest to the level of said second seat member;
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- said initial actuation engagement causing said ball valve means to shift relative to said first seat member by leveraged actuation to permit said fluid flow.
A watering device for fowl and small animals comprising:
- a housing including a valve chamber therein and an inlet and an outlet connected to said valve chamber;
- upper and lower seat members disposed within said valve chamber;
- a ball valve means disposed within said valve chamber for bearing on said upper seat member to seal against fluid flow through said valve chamber;
- a valve actuator means having a head portion and a pin portion;
- said pin portion extending through said outlet with clearance and projecting beyond said outlet;
- said head portion having a lower surface bearing on said lower seat member and an upper surface with a recessed region thereon;
- said recessed region being disposed adjacent and confronting said ball valve means;
- said recessed region including an edge region cooperatively associated with said ball valve means such that, upon lateral movement of said pin portion in any direction relative to said housing, said edge region provides initial actuation engagement with said ball valve means;
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- said initial actuation engagement being provided at a location spaced apart from the lowermost portion of said ball valve means such that said lateral movement causes said ball valve means to shift relative to said upper seat member by leveraged actuation to permit said fluid flow through said valve chamber.
A poultry watering device, comprising:
- an axially extending housing having a fluid inlet at one end of said housing, a fluid outlet at another end of said housing, and a valve chamber connected therebetween;
- first and second seat members disposed in said valve chamber, said seat members being axially spaced apart with said second seat member being located between said first seat member and said outlet;
- ball valve means disposed in said valve chamber for bearing on said first seat member to seal against fluid flow through said valve chamber from said inlet to said outlet;
- valve actuator means bearing on said second seat member for at least partially displacing said ball valve means from said first seat member to permit said fluid flow;
- said valve actuator means including a head portion disposed within said valve chamber and a pin portion extending with clearance through said outlet and projecting therebeyond;
- said head portion including a first surface adjacent and confronting said ball valve means and a flattened second surface bearing on said second seat member;
- said first surface including a substantially concave recessed portion with a peripheral edge about said recessed portion;
- said valve actuator means being cooperatively associated with said ball valve means such that upon tilting movement of said pin portion with respect to said housing said ball valve means is at least partially displaced from said first seat member by leveraged actuation;
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- said leveraged actuation resulting from fulcrum lifting of said flattened second surface from said second seat member causing initial actuation displacement of said ball valve means through engagement of said peripheral edge with said ball valve means at a location on said ball valve means which is spaced apart from that portion of said ball valve means extending furthest toward the end of said housing having said outlet.
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