Animal operated device for coordinated feeding of liquid and gra

Details Animal operated device for coordinated feeding of liquid and gra Animal operated device for coordinated feeding of liquid and gra

1975-04-09

1976-04-27

Chamblee, Hugh R.

Animal husbandry

Feeding device

Timer-controlled

119 515, 119 54, A01K 500

Patent

active

039527050

ABSTRACT:
The apparatus of this invention more positively controls liquid feed and solid (grain) feed consumption by animals in a simple economical and efficient manner, while minimizing contamination and wastage problems. Basically, the invention comprises in combination (1) a lick wheel rotatably mounted in an enclosed liquid feed container, with a portion of the circumference of the liquid wheel being exposed to the animal to be fed, (2) a means for adjusting the amount of lick wheel surface exposed to the animal to be fed, to thereby control the amount of liquid feed consumed by the animal per tongue lick, (3) means for discharging solid feed to the animal in an amount proportional to the amount of rotation of the lick wheel to obtain thereby a fixed ratio of solid to liquid feed, to be fed to the animal, and (4) means for varying the solid feed discharge independently of the amount of rotation of the lick wheel so as to increase or decrease the fixed ratio of solid to liquid feed fed to the animal.
The invention thus provides a means whereby the cow's tongue provides the power source for its own feeding of both liquid and grain supplements, the amount of each type of supplement being controllable mainly by means of the adjustment of the lick wheel surface exposed to the animal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2158093 (1939-05-01), Teske
patent: 2293643 (1942-08-01), Evans
patent: 2651291 (1953-09-01), Duke
patent: 3459159 (1969-08-01), Reed

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