Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Hopper and trough
Patent
1984-10-09
1986-06-10
Chamblee, Hugh R.
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Hopper and trough
198364, A01K 502, B65G 4746
Patent
active
045936510
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a feed conveyor for receiving feed and depositing it into a feeder bunk. It includes a hopper for receiving feed and depositing it upon a motor-run belt conveyor. Disposed between the upper or load-carrying flight and the lower or return flight of the conveyor belt are pulleys over which is reeved a cable, rope or chain in a horizontal plane, that is, each cable flight is located laterally with respect to the opposite flight. These pulleys are run by a drive taken from the same motor as that driving the belt of the conveyor via pulleys which transfer the plane of the drive belt from the vertical to the horizontal. The cable joined into a continuous loop by a cable clamp having holes drilled in one face thereof for insertion of the cable ends and a concave semi-cylindrical depression formed in the same face so as to match closely the radius of the pulleys driving the cable. Pivotably attached to this cable clamp is a trolley which a caused to slide back and forth along the length of the conveyor frame just beneath the conveyor belt. In one embodiment the plow is fixed at a particular angle via pegs which fit in holes in the trolley, and the plow can be switched manually by placing it in a different set of holes to plow the feed off the opposite side of the conveyor. In another embodiment, the plow is an A-shaped assembly having spring-loaded over-centering means and having latch means for semi-automatically switching the plow from one side to the other. In yet another embodiment the direction of movement of the plow is switched by taking the drive force of the cable from first one and then the other of two pulleys turning in opposite directions and run by the same belt and drive pulley.
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patent: 4213525 (1980-07-01), Scheppele
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patent: 4381733 (1983-05-01), Patz et al.
McCarthy Michael D.
Rhodes Keith H.
Chamblee Hugh R.
Kees Nicholas A.
Metko, Inc.
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