DE29616706U1 - Device for feeding feeding stations - Google Patents

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IBO-Stalltechnik GmbH, Ostring 26, 46348 Raesfeld "Device for feeding feeding stations"

The innovation relates to a device for feeding

of feeding places, in particular for pigs according to the preamble of the main claim.

From DE 38 05 149 C1 a device for feeding feeding stations or troughs has become known, in which the

The discharge opening of the container can be operated by the animal, whereby the animal only has indirect access to this opening. By " operating a corresponding actuating plunger, the discharge opening is not simply opened, but the feed is conveyed a little, whereby after actuating

of the actuating plunger, the animal can no longer operate this actuating plunger, but two animals must always work together, whereby the other animal can and must now operate the actuating plunger and thus the first animal is again able to feed

This known device is relatively complex, and the innovation is based on the task of creating a device that is particularly suitable as an optimal automatic feeder for medium- to final-fattening gilts, namely both for meal and pellets.

This problem underlying the innovation is solved by the teaching of the main claim.

In other words, it is proposed that under the

A baffle plate should be placed at the bottom opening of the feed storage container or the outlet opening of the feed storage container, which can be moved up and down by the animal. This up and down movement enlarges or reduces the outlet opening, and now this movement can

Feed into the actual feeding trough or to the feeding place of the

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Animal. This means that feed only flows out as long as the animal is activating the baffle plate and in principle the animal's trunk does not come into contact with the actual feed above the baffle plate, but eats the feed from the feeding place or the feeding trough.

A direct drinker can be provided in the area of the feeding trough, which can be positioned on the right or left side of the container.
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Preferably, the baffle plate is V-shaped or concavely curved.

Furthermore, according to a feature of the innovation, the storage part of the feed storage container is designed to taper in a wedge shape and the sloping wall that creates the wedge shape is height-adjustable. The feed storage container can be designed so that it is double, i.e. there are baffle plates on both sides so that animals can feed from both sides.

Scraper bars are arranged in the corner areas, especially in the longitudinal axis of the feeding place or the feeding trough. As soon as the animal has eaten enough, it will lift and turn its head to remove any food that has stuck to it.

Scrape off any remaining food on the snout using these scraper bars.

Examples of the innovation are explained below using the drawings. The drawings show in 30

Fig. 1 a feed storage container that can only be

side and in Fig. 2 a feed storage container that can be accessed from both sides

accessible from both sides, i.e. animals can access this feed storage container from both sides

eat.

The feed storage container 1 shown in Fig. 1 has a U-shaped casing part 7 into which a sloping wall 8 is inserted at an angle, so that a storage part 9 that widens upwards is created. This sloping wall 8 is height-adjustable by a height adjustment device 6, where

can be enlarged or reduced through the bottom opening of the actual storage part.

A baffle plate 3 is arranged beneath the bottom opening 2, which is hinged at 10 and can be moved up or down preferably against the force of a return spring, as is illustrated by the arrow F _1. In the rest position, the baffle plate 3 almost completely closes the bottom opening 2, so that, in particular, even when the natural slope angle is formed on the baffle plate 3, no

food can flow out.

Below the baffle plate 3, the feeding station 4 is provided, which in the embodiment shown is designed as a feeding trough. At 5, scraper bars can be seen and at 11 a

Direct drinking.

In the embodiment according to Fig. 2, two inclined walls 8a and 8b are provided, which are also designed to be height-adjustable and which create a V-shaped storage part 9.

The bottom openings are also provided with baffle plates 3a and 3b, which are designed in the same way as explained with reference to Fig. 1. Scraper brackets 5 are also provided in the embodiment shown in Fig. 2.

In principle, the embodiment according to Fig. 2 differs from the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 only in that the feeding stations 4 are aligned on both sides, so that a double automatic feeder is created.

By operating the baffle plate in the direction of arrow Fi, i.e. swinging it up and down, whereby this swinging movement is carried out with the animal's trunk, feed flows out of the storage part 9 into the feeding place 4, whereby the animal now takes in the feed from the feeding place 4. As soon as the animal is full, no further feed is fed and the mode of operation of this innovative device is independent of whether pellets or meal are fed.

Claims (5)

HABBEL & HABB.ET":·: :^| ^iRipiNQ. h.-q. habbel PATENT ATTORNEYS D11>LTMNQ. LUTZ HABBEL EUROPEAN PATENT ATTORNEYS PO Box 3429 · 48019 Münster DIPL.-QEOQR. PETER HABBEL TELEPHONE (0251) 535 780 ♦ FAX (0251) 531 996 OUR FILE: !please specify S35M9279 X/SC Münster, 24 September 1996 IBO-Stalitechnik GmbH, Ostring 26, 46348 Raesfeld "Device for feeding feeding stations" 20 Protection claims: 1. Device for feeding feeding stations (4) by means of a feed storage container (1) with a bottom opening (2) which is closed off by a storage plate (3) opposite the feeding station (4) 25 is characterized by a pivoting mounting of the storage plate (3) such that the bottom opening (2) is enlarged or reduced by the pivoting movement. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the storage plate (3) is V-shaped. 3. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the baffle plate (3) is concavely curved. 4. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the storage part (9) of the feed storage container (1) is tapered in a wedge shape and the inclined wall (8) or inclined walls (8a, 8b) creating the wedge shape are mounted so as to be height-adjustable. 5. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized characterized by scraper brackets (5) in the end region of the feeding station (4) seen in its longitudinal axis.