Animal husbandry – Feeding device – Hopper and trough
Patent
1992-06-01
1993-06-29
Mancene, Gene
Animal husbandry
Feeding device
Hopper and trough
74547, A01K 500
Patent
active
052224600
ABSTRACT:
This invention is a drop-lock adjustment used on automatic feeders to adjust the feed gates either up or down and includes shielded drop-locks connected to control rods that pass through a channel adjacent slot-like openings in such channel to prevent the animals being fed from tripping the lock to cause either more or less feed to be dispensed.
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Manahan Todd #E.
Mancene Gene
Staco, Inc.
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