Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Racks and troughs
Patent
1982-10-26
1984-06-26
Mancene, Gene
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Racks and troughs
119 52R, A01K 500
Patent
active
044559674
ABSTRACT:
Animal feeding apparatus including a base portion, a support portion, a divider portion and a trough portion; the base portion including a pair of spaced substantially horizontal longitudinal sections, the longitudinal sections being disposed substantially parallel to each other, each of the longitudinal sections having a height significantly greater than the thickness thereof; the support portion including a plurality of spaced transverse members, each of the transverse members extending between the longitudinal sections along the length thereof, an undercarriage disposed adjacent one end of the base portion, the undercarriage including a transverse axle and wheels disposed adjacent the ends of the axle, a hitch disposed adjacent the end of the base portion remote from the undercarriage; the divider portion including an elevated longitudinal center section, the center section being supported on and affixed to the transverse members, the center section being disposed in a generally horizontal orientation intermediate the longitudinal sections, the center section having a height significantly greater than the thickness thereof, the upper edge of the center section being located significantly above the upper edges of the longitudinal sections; the trough portion including a pair of longitudinal movable sections, each of the movable sections having one longitudinal edge pivotally connected to the lower edge of one of the longitudinal sections, each of the movable sections being pivotable from a position in which it is substantially horizontal to a position in which the free longitudinal edge of the movable section is substantially lower than the pivotally connected longitudinal edge thereof.
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Mancene Gene
Schulze Kris R.
Urban Arthur L.
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