Feed container with retention system
AssigneeSouthwest Agri-Plastics, Inc.
InventorVictor A. Sahm, III
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Abstract
A feed container for storing hardened livestock feed is disclosed. The feed container has a storage area defined by a bottom wall and a sidewall for retaining animal feed within the storage area when the feed is in a solid phase and the feed container is in a non-upward resting position or is on its sidewall. Also disclosed is a method for utilizing a feed container, having said storage area, for retaining animal feed within the storage area when the feed is in a solid phase and the feed container is in a non-upward resting position or is on its sidewall.
Claims20
A method for utilizing a feed container, having a storage area defined by a bottom wall and a sidewall, for retaining animal feed within the storage area when the feed is in a solid phase and the feed container is in a non-upward resting position, the method comprising:
- forming a member extending from the interior surface of the sidewall a limited distance into the storage area and at a distance from the bottom wall sufficient to retain the entirety of the animal feed within the storage area when the animal feed is in its solid phase and the feed container is in the non-upward resting position, and
- pouring the animal feed in its liquid phase to fill the storage area completely below the extending member and at a desired distance above the extending member,
- whereby, the extending member will retain all of the animal feed in its solid phase that is below the extending member and the remaining animal feed that is in its solid phase above the extending member when the feed container is in the non-upward resting position.
A method for utilizing a feed container, having a storage area defined by a bottom wall and a sidewall, for retaining animal feed within the storage area when the feed is in a solid phase and the feed container is on its sidewall, the method comprising:
- forming a member extending from the interior surface of the sidewall a limited distance into the storage area and at a distance from the bottom wall sufficient to retain the entirety of the animal feed within the storage area when the animal feed is in its solid phase and the feed container is in on its sidewall, and
- pouring the animal feed in its liquid phase to fill the storage area completely below the extending member and at a desired distance above the extending member,
- whereby, the extending member will retain all of the animal feed in its solid phase that is below the extending member and the remaining animal feed that is in its solid phase above the extending member when the feed container is on its sidewall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.