Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Hopper and trough
Patent
1982-06-07
1983-11-22
Chamblee, Hugh R.
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Hopper and trough
198435, A01K 3116
Patent
active
044162197
ABSTRACT:
An automated, tiered, egg collecting system and method for tiered confinement cage rows for poultry in which each row of confinement cages has a cage-row conveyor for delivering eggs to an end of the cage row. Under the teaching of the invention, a vertically movable, horizontally extended transport conveyor is oriented transversely of the cage row conveyors and adjacent the egg-delivery ends thereof for movement up and down to a plurality of pre-selected, egg-receiving positions. The vertically movable conveyor carries a hydraulically operated motor and drive shaft which provides driving power to each of the cage row conveyors only during the period of time when the vertically movable conveyor is in an egg-receiving position with respect to a tier of cage row conveyors. The drive motor is coupled with a drive shaft on a cage row conveyor through coacting mechanical means as a function of the position of the vertically movable conveyor relative to the delivery ends of a tier of row conveyors. The vertically movable conveyor is connected with a stationary horizontal conveyor unit through a telescoping conveyor section.
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Chamblee Hugh R.
Jefferson Industries Company
Lowell Rudolph L.
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