Animal husbandry – Watering or liquid feed device – Drop-delivering
Patent
1986-06-16
1987-04-28
Chamblee, Hugh R.
Animal husbandry
Watering or liquid feed device
Drop-delivering
119 75, A01K 706
Patent
active
046605096
ABSTRACT:
This disclosure is directed to a nipple particularly adapted for feeding liquid to fowl and/or small animals, the nipple including a housing having an insert defining a passage through which liquid is adapted to pass from an upstream portion to a downstream portion thereof, a valve in the passage defined by at least one peripheral valve seat and a metallic spherical ball normally resting upon the peripheral valve seat, a stem defined by a head and a pin, the pin having a cylindrical outer surface housed within the downstream passage portion, the downstream passage portion including a frusto-conical outlet surface defined in part by an axial outermost major diameter and an axially innermost minor diameter, the insert further including an annular seat upon which the head normally rests, a flow-control surface between the annular seat and the minor diameter of the frusto-conical outlet surface, the flow-control surface defining with the pin cylndrical outer surface a generally annular flow-control channel through which liquid passes when the valve is unseated from the peripheral valve seat, the frusto-conical outlet surface being of a predetermined maximum angle to the axis thereof, and the flow-control surface having an angle to its axis ranging between 0.degree. and up to but not including the predetermined maximum angle of the frusto-conical outlet surface.
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Chamblee Hugh R.
Val Products Inc.
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