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US 6,634,317 B1Granted
Method for distributing animal feed and/or cleaning products from a mixing container
OwnerMartin Forsterinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for selectively transporting one of animal feed and cleaning products from a source via a feed line to a removal location is made possible by selectively feeding in a pulsed manner a gaseous medium.
Claims14
A method for discharging a liquid animal nutritional feed from a removal location comprising the steps of;
- (a) providing a source of a liquid animal nutritional feed;
- (b) feeding the liquid animal nutritional feed from the source to a removal location via a feed line, the feeding step comprising supplying a gaseous medium in a pulsed manner to one of the feed line and the source;
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- (c) after step (b), feeding a quantity of cleaning agent to the feed line by means of pulsed air.
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An apparatus for discharging a liquid animal nutritional feed from a removal location comprising:
- a source of a liquid animal nutritional feed;
- a removal location;
- a feed line between the source and the removal location;
- a source of a gaseous medium;
- first means for selectively feeding the gaseous medium in a pulsed manner to one of the source of the liquid animal nutritional feed and the feed line for discharging the liquid animal nutritional feed from the removal location;
- a source of cleaning agent;
- and second means for selectively feeding the cleaning agent to the feed line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.