System, apparatus and method for removing large animal waste from a floor
OwnerBert J. Waybrightinventor
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Abstract
Animal waste is removed from a barn floor by moving a trolley in a first direction adjacent a first trough in the floor. As the trolley moves in the first direction: a blade extending from the trolley scrapes the waste into a region adjacent the trough; rotating paddles on the trolley drive the waste from the region into the trough; and a plow on the trolley that extends into the trough drives the waste toward one end of the trough for removal. Alternatively water drives the waste in the trough in the first direction. When the trolley moves away from the one end, the blades scrape the waste toward the region and the paddles drive the waste into the trough, but the plow is idle because the plow pivots to ride on top of the waste.
Claims14
A system for removing animal waste from a barn floor on which the animals that produce the waste reside comprising a trough in the floor, a pair of opposing walls defining a slot region opening from the floor to the trough, the trough and slot being straight and elongated in the same direction, a trolley positioned adjacent or above the trough, a drive for moving the trolley in first and second opposite directions along the slot region, the trolley comprising a blade arrangement extending from a body of the trolley for scraping waste from the floor into the slot region in front of a portion of the body in the direction of travel of the trolley as the trolley is moved in the first and second directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.