Animal husbandry – Feeding device – With watering devices
Patent
1999-02-17
2000-11-14
Poon, Peter M.
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
With watering devices
119 5102, A01K 502
Patent
active
061454729
ABSTRACT:
A distribution apparatus including a separate compartment to hold and dispense both anhydrous feed in pellet form and liquid. In the compartment to dispense the anhydrous feed in pellet form from a feeding reservoir the dry feed reaches an under placed volumetric feeder activated by a motor reducer operated in response to information contained on a microprocessor card actuating the operator's preset functions on the control board. The anhydrous food falls then into a fodder-trough comes out operated by a translation system and the movement of which causes the rotation of the apparatus which senses the presence of feed and includes a linear support holding a rod having an intermediate upward bend ending, with the contact detector of the feed presence. As soon as the fodder-trough comes out, the bend allows a detector to lower down to touch the bottom of the fodder-trough permitting the card to detect the presence of residual food and to refill only the pre-determined quantity of feed fixed for the following meal. In the compartment containing the water, from a water tank the water reaches a drinking bowl. A level sensor detects either the water presence into the drinking bowl or the nonconsumption of water within a pre-determined fixed time sending all the signals detected on the control board.
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Vittuari Emanuele
Vittuari Gabriele
Vittuari Maria Rosa
Vittuari Maurizio
Poon Peter M.
Shaw Elizabeth
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