Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Timer-controlled
Patent
1982-06-17
1984-07-24
Swiatek, Robert P.
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Timer-controlled
A01K 502
Patent
active
044612419
ABSTRACT:
Animal monitoring apparatus including an animal reviewing portion, an animal identifying portion and a control portion; the animal reviewing portion including a plurality of animal detecting stations, the animal identifying portion including a transmitter section and a receiver section, the transmitter section being disposed on an animal, the transmitter section including a signal generator, a signal coder and an actuator; the receiver section being disposed adjacent to the reviewing portion, the receiver section including a power source, a transmitter actuator, an antenna, a signal receiver, a signal decoder and signal transferring mechanism, each of the receiver sections being connected electrically with receiver sections of all other animal detecting stations and with interrogating mechanism, the interrogating mechanism sequentially searching each of the receiver sections in a continuous rapidly repeating sequence, memory mechanism capable of accepting an animal performance schedule, mechanism for comparing signals from the interrogating mechanism with the animal performance schedule, mechanism for selectively activating electrical actuating mechanism, and recording mechanism for compiling a log of the activation of the electrical actuating mechanism and the time periods of such activations.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3929277 (1975-12-01), Byrne et al.
patent: 4279219 (1981-07-01), Brooks
Agri-Systems
Swiatek Robert P.
Urban Arthur L.
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