Animal feeder having a drum feed transport device
AssigneeLes Industries G. Dumas Inc.
InventorsGilles Dumas, Raymond Lemelin, Bruno Leclerc
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Abstract
An animal feeder is comprised of a feed hopper for the containment of animal feed and having feed discharge drums located in a lower section of the hopper. The drums are provided with feed transport cavities to transport feed from the hopper to a feed trough disposed below the hopper. The drum is maintained at a predetermined inoperative position by means of a weighted bar element which is actuated by an animal to displace the drum and transfer feed from the hopper to the feed trough. A feed arresting bar is horizontally secured at a predetermined location in each feed transport cavity to obstruct free flow of feed when the drum is in motion to a discharge position.
Claims16
An animal feeder comprising a feed hopper for the containment of animal feed, said feed hopper having inclined guide walls for directing said feed towards one or more feed discharge drums in a lower section thereof, each said feed discharge drum being secured on a central support axle for rotational displacement thereon, said drum having a circumferential side wall, a portion of said circumferential side wall extending into a feed collecting compartment in said lower section of said feed hopper between opposed straight end walls of said feed collecting compartment, an inclined lower guide wall secured between said opposed straight end walls and having a straight lower edge in frictional contact across said circumferential side wall for directing feed thereagainst, one or more feed transport cavities in said circumferential side wall and displaceable by rotational displacement of said drum on said central support axle to position one of said feed transport cavities above said straight lower edge of said inclined lower guide wall sufficiently to receive said feed therein, a feed trough spaced below said lower section of said hopper, drum actuatable means secured to said drum and depending at least towards said feed trough for actuation by an animal feeding from said trough to discharge feed from said hopper to said trough via said transport cavities, stopper means to restrict the rotational displacement of said drum, and feed arresting means in said feed transport cavities to obstruct free flow of feed during the displacement of said drum to a discharge position.
An animal feeder comprising a feed hopper for the containment of animal feed, said feed hopper having inclined guide walls for directing said feed towards a removable feed collecting and discharge compartment in a lower section thereof, feed discharge drums in said removable compartment, one or more feed transport cavities in a circumferential side wall of said drums and displaceable by rotational displacement of said drum on a support axle to position one of said feed transport cavities to a feed receiving position to receive said feed therein from said hopper, a feed trough spaced below said hopper, drum actuatable means secured to said drum and depending at least towards said feed trough for actuation by an animal feeding from said trough to discharge feed from said hopper to said trough via said transport cavities, stopper means to restrict the rotational displacement of said drum, and feed arresting means in said feed transport cavities to obstruct free flow of feed during the displacement of said drum to a discharge position.
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