Feed box for breeding poultry
AssigneeCorti Zootecnici S.r.l.
InventorsEsterino Corti, Paolo Tancredi
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Abstract
A feedbox for breeding poultry includes at least one main protection grate mounted on a feed storage tub and with dividing plates and openings to allow the poultry access to the feed. The feedbox utilizes an auxiliary grate slidingly or rotationally joined to the main protection grate and equipped with a plurality of peripheral tips. The tips do not interfere with the openings of the main protection grate in at least a first relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate and, vice versa, the tips at least partially obstruct one or more of the openings in at least a second relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate.
Claims27
A feedbox to supply feed to breeding poultry, of the type connected to a main feed auger screw and comprising:
- at least one gravity feeding tube connected to said main feed auger screw by means of a pipe fitting device, said feeding tube having one or more feed passage ports;
- at least one storage tub for the feed coming from said feeding tube;
- means to adjust the feed level;
- at least one main protection grate mounted on said storage tub and provided with dividing plates and openings to allow the poultry access to the feed, a free edge of said main grate overlapping an upper edge of said tub;
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- at least one auxiliary grate slidingly or rotationally joined to the main protection grate, said auxiliary grate comprising a plurality of peripheral tips and arranged so that the tips do not interfere with the openings of the main protection grate in at least one first relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate and, vice versa, so that the tips obstruct at least partially one or more of said openings in at least one second relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate, the tips in the second relative position of the auxiliary grate reducing a height of said openings.
A feedbox to supply feed to breeding poultry, of the type connected to a main feed auger screw and comprising:
- at least one gravity feeding tube connected to said main feed auger screw by means of a pipe fitting device, said feeding tube having one or more feed passage ports;
- at least one storage tub for the feed coming from said feeding tube;
- means to adjust the feed level;
- at least one main protection grate mounted on said storage tub and provided with dividing plates and openings to allow the poultry access to the feed, a free edge of said main grate overlapping an upper edge of said tub;
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- at least one auxiliary grate slidingly or rotationally joined to the main protection grate, said auxiliary grate comprising a plurality of peripheral tips and arranged so that the tips do not interfere with the openings of the main protection grate in at least one first relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate and, vice versa, so that the tips obstruct at least partially one or more of said openings in at least one second relative position of the auxiliary agate with respect to the main grate,
- wherein said tips partially obstruct all the openings of said grate extending in a such way that each free end of the tips is set at a height between 3 and 5 cm with respect to the upper edge of the feedbox.
A feedbox for supplying reed to breeding poultry via a main feed auger screw through a gravity feeding tube, the feedbox comprising:
- at least one storage tub that stores feed fed via the feeding tube;
- at least one main protection grate mounted on said storage tub and provided with dividing plates and openings to allow the poultry access to the feed, a free edge of said main grate overlapping an upper edge of said tub;
- at least one auxiliary grate slidingly or rotationally joined to said main protection grate, said auxiliary grate comprising a plurality of peripheral tips and arranged so that the tips do not interfere with the openings of the main protection grate in at least one first relative position of the auxiliary grate relative to the main grate and, vice versa, so that the tips obstruct at least partially one or more of said openings in at least one second relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate, the tips in the second relative position of the auxiliary grate reducing a height of said openings;
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- an adjustment assembly effected between said storage tub and said protection grate, the adjustment assembly adjusting a feed level.
A feedbox for supplying feed to breeding poultry via a main feed auger screw through a gravity feeding tube, the feedbox comprising:
- at least one storage tub that stores feed fed via the feeding tube;
- at least one main protection grate mounted on said storage tub and provided with dividing plates and openings to allow the poultry access to the feed, a free edge of said main grate overlapping an upper edge of said tub;
- at least one auxiliary grate slidingly or rotationally joined to said main protection grate, said auxiliary grate comprising a plurality of peripheral tips and arranged so that the tips do not interfere with the openings of the main protection grate in at least one first relative position of the auxiliary grate relative to the main grate and, vice versa, so that the tips obstruct at least partially one or more of said openings in at least one second relative position of the auxiliary grate with respect to the main grate, the tips in the second relative position of the auxiliary grate reducing a height of said openings;
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- an adjustment assembly effected between said storage tub and said main protection grate, the adjustment assembly adjusting a height position of said main grate relative to said storage tub.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.