Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Stall
Patent
1996-05-06
1997-12-16
Price, Thomas
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Stall
A01K 502
Patent
active
056973276
ABSTRACT:
A feed conveying apparatus is disclosed for use in a poultry or livestock feeding system (503). The feed conveying apparatus has a housing (509) having a feed inlet (515) which receives feed from a feed supply (BFT) and a feed outlet (517). A feed conveyor (508) extends through the housing. The conveyor has a conveyor tube (511) with a feed auger (513) therein. The feed auger has a multiplicity of substantially equally spaced flights (62) and is driven within the conveyor tube for picking up feed from the housing and for conveying it through the conveyor tube. A regulator (521) is provided for regulating the amount of feed within the conveyor tube downstream from the housing to an amount less than will totally fill the conveyor tube so as to form a partial void (V) within the conveyor tube and to prevent overcompaction of the feed within the conveyor tube. In addition, an agitator (519) is provided for positively removing feed from between the flights of the auger so as to positively insure that the amount of feed carried by the auger is less than the full amount of the feed that would be carried by the auger even after it passes through restrictor sleeve (521) thus preventing filling of the open trough feeders to a level greater than a desired feed level.
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A set of three (3) photographs of CTB's Model 125 Boot.
Price Thomas
The GSI Group, Inc.
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