Animal husbandry – Feeding device
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-09
2001-10-23
Jordan, Charles T. (Department: 3644)
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
C119S051110, C119S052300, CD30S121000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06305320
ABSTRACT:
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to support structures for supporting game feeders for game animals, such as deer, and more particularly to a game feeder support assembly that includes a multi-section vertical support pole assembly including an auger pole portion, an extension portion and a ground insertion portion and a feeder support assembly including a semi-circular game feeder support structure in rigid connection with a box-shaped auger pole nut assembly; the auger pole portion having a bottom auger portion end securable to a top extension portion end; the extension portion having a bottom extension portion end securable to a top ground insertion portion end; the ground insertion portion end having one or more pairs of coaxially aligned apertures through each of which a stabilizer bar is insertable; the auger pole portion having a continuous, rigid, auger flight secured helically around and extending outwardly from an auger pole portion shaft; the auger pole nut assembly including an auger nut box having an exterior surface in rigid connection with the semi-circular game feeder support structure and an auger pole portion passageway formed entirely therethrough between a bottom nut opening and a top nut opening and into which multiple rollers extend from auger nut box interior walls in a pattern such that the multiple rollers engage different sections of the auger flight simultaneously such that as the auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a first rotational direction, while mounted on the auger pole portion, the auger pole nut assembly travels in a first direction toward a top end of the auger pole portion and as the auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a second rotational direction, opposite the first rotational direction, while mounted on the auger pole portion, the auger pole nut assembly travels in a second direction toward a bottom end of the auger pole section; the auger pole nut assembly including a T-handled locking bolt having a threaded end threaded through a threaded aperture formed through the auger nut box and of a length sufficient to allow the T-handled locking bolt to be tightened to contact the auger pole portion shaft to prevent rotation of the auger nut assembly about the auger pole portion; the auger pole nut assembly including a handle connected to the auger nut box for gripping by a user when rotating the auger nut assembly to lower the game feeder for refilling or raising the game feeder to an operating height.
BACKGROUND ART
Many farmers and hunters provide a feeder for periodically distributing feed to animals to supplement the diets of these animals to maintain their health and/or to keep the animals in the area for hunting purposes. Because the feeder is filled with food, most feeders are provided with a support for supporting the feeder unit well above the animals to be fed so that the feeder unit is not destroyed by animals attempting to remove all of the feed at once. Although elevating the feeder unit protects it from damage, elevating the feeder unit also dramatically increases the difficulty of periodically refilling the feeder unit. Because the feeder units are often remotely located in areas frequented by game animals, it can be burdensome to transport a ladder as well as hundreds of pounds of feed to the locations and equally burdensome to carry each of the bags of feed up the ladder to the feed unit to be refilled. It would be a benefit, therefore, to have a game feeder support assembly that could support a game feeder at an elevated position for use but that included a mechanism for lowering the game feeder to a level where refilling and maintenance could be performed without a ladder and then lifting the filled game feeder back up to the elevated operational height.
GENERAL SUMMARY DISCUSSION OF INVENTION
It is thus an object of the invention to provide a game feeder support assembly that includes a multi-section vertical support pole assembly including an auger pole portion, an extension portion and a ground insertion portion and a feeder support assembly including a semi-circular game feeder support structure in rigid connection with a box-shaped auger pole nut assembly; the auger pole portion having a bottom auger portion end securable to a top extension portion end; the extension portion having a bottom extension portion end securable to a top ground insertion portion end; the ground insertion portion end having one or more pairs of coaxially aligned apertures through each of which a stabilizer bar is insertable; the auger pole portion having a continuous, rigid, auger flight secured helically around and extending outwardly from an auger pole portion shaft; the auger pole nut assembly including an auger nut box having an exterior surface in rigid connection with the semi-circular game feeder support structure and an auger pole portion passageway formed entirely therethrough between a bottom nut opening and a top nut opening and into which multiple rollers extend from auger nut box interior walls in a pattern such that the multiple rollers engage different sections of the auger flight simultaneously such that as the auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a first rotational direction, while mounted on the auger pole portion, the auger pole nut assembly travels in a first direction toward a top end of the auger pole portion and as the auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a second rotational direction, opposite the first rotational direction, while mounted on the auger pole portion, the auger pole nut assembly travels in a second direction toward a bottom end of the auger pole section; the auger pole nut assembly including a T-handled locking bolt having a threaded end threaded through a threaded aperture formed through the auger nut box and of a length sufficient to allow the T-handled locking bolt to be tightened to contact the auger pole portion shaft to prevent rotation of the auger nut assembly about the auger pole portion; the auger pole nut assembly including a handle connected to the auger nut box for gripping by a user when rotating the auger nut assembly to lower the game feeder for refilling or raising the game feeder to an operating height.
Accordingly, a game feeder support assembly is provided. The game feeder support assembly includes a multi-section vertical support pole assembly including an auger pole portion, an extension portion and a ground insertion portion and a feeder support assembly including a semi-circular game feeder support structure in rigid connection with a box-shaped auger pole nut assembly; the auger pole portion having a bottom auger portion end securable to a top extension portion end; the extension portion having a bottom extension portion end securable to a top ground insertion portion end; the ground insertion portion end having one or more pairs of coaxially aligned apertures through each of which a stabilizer bar is insertable; the auger pole portion having a continuous, rigid, auger flight secured helically around and extending outwardly from an auger pole portion shaft; the auger pole nut assembly including an auger nut box having an exterior surface in rigid connection with the semi-circular game feeder support structure and an auger pole portion passageway formed entirely therethrough between a bottom nut opening and a top nut opening and into which multiple rollers extend from auger nut box interior walls in a pattern such that the multiple rollers engage different sections of the auger flight simultaneously such that as the auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a first rotational direction, while mounted on the auger pole portion, the auger pole nut assembly travels in a first direction toward a top end of the auger pole portion and as the auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a second rotational direction, opposite the first rotational direction, while mounted on the auger pole portion, the auger pole nut assembly travels in a second direction toward a bottom end of the auger pole section; the auger pole nut assembly including a T-handled locking bolt having a threaded
Breaux Joseph N.
Jordan Charles T.
Nelson Judith A.
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