ES1065092U - Automatic feeder for horses (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Automatic feeder for horses, which is designed to allow supply of feed to an equine as many times as desired per day and with the dose chosen in each of those times of supply of feed, is characterized because it is constituted by the combination of a storage hopper of the feed and a proper feeder, the hopper being provided with a bottom that ends in a conduit in communication with a horizontal tube, in which an endless amount of feed drag is provided towards an exit of the hopper that it ends in a trough through which the feed is directly directed to the feeder itself, the endless being operable by an engine and programmable in its operation by a programmer; it being provided that said hopper and feeder are mounted so that the latter is inaccessible to the animal by means of a separator, such as a wall, a grate or the like. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Automatic feeder for horses.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a trough automatic for horses, which includes in combination a hopper and a Feeder proper, receiving this product or I think from the hopper itself, which is inaccessible to the animal, that will only have access to the feeder.

The object of the invention is to provide a installation that allows to feed equine animals, preferably, automatically as many times as desired during the day, as the dose given each time.

Background of the invention

Systems and facilities are known that allow automatically feed certain types of animals, as they are the cattle, pigs, etc., supplying the feed of form programmed to know the amount of feed that is It supplies the animals in question every day.

Now the facilities known for Animal feeding are complex, expensive and they are only implantable in farms of high number of animals.

There are no known facilities or systems that allow economically, effectively and with guarantees, the Animal feed. That is, in the facilities of animal feed the feed is the same for everyone. no allowing a greater amount of feed to be supplied to an animal or to another.

When it comes to horses, at a particular level and not in farms, it is difficult that if an owner has several equines, or only one, can automatically feed the animal, since there are no simple facilities that allow perform this function.

Description of the invention

The installation that is recommended is planned for the unit feeding of an animal, specifically a equine, resulting structurally simple. easy to assemble and that enable any owner of one or more horses to feed them automatically and independently.

More specifically, the installation of the invention is constituted by a feeder, if conventional, functionally associated with a feed storage hopper, hopper that logically will be of small capacity and that includes a top loading cover, a programmer, front visors for show the level of the feed inside the hopper, being this endowed with a conical bottom in which a short is established conduit that flows into a horizontal tube on which it has been provided for an endless actionable by means of a motor, either by direct network power, either by battery, or by solar energy, etc., so that in any case that tube of the endlessly leads to an exit through which the I think dragged by the endless on a gutter that directs the I think of the trough itself, with the special feature that the animal has access to the feeder but not to the hopper being both elements, in its assembly, separated so that said hopper results inaccessible to the animal.

From that separation or inaccessibility of animal to the hopper can be established by a wall, by a grid, or any other dividing element.

The programmer can feed the animal as many times as desired during the day, as well as the dose to be chosen

Description of the drawings

To complement the description that is being performing and in order to help a better understanding of the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization of it, is accompanied as part member of that description, a set of drawings where with illustrative and non-limiting nature, what has been represented next:

Figure 1.- Shows a perspective view of the trough of the invention, where the hopper is thus seen as the divide, in this case a wall, that separates it from the feeder.

Figure 2.- Shows another perspective view, in this case with a broken part of the divide to show the trough and hopper related to each other.

Preferred Embodiment of the Invention

As you can see in the referred figures, the automatic trough for horses object of the invention, it constitutes by the functional combination of a hopper (1) and a Feeder proper (2) assembled together with the interposition of a divide, such as a wall (3) or a lattice, etc.

In any case the outlet (4) of the hopper flows into a gutter (5) through which I think that out of that hopper (1) is directed towards the feeder itself (2).

The hopper (1) constitutes the element of feed storage, with a top (6) and on its lateral surface with the assembly of a programmer (7) and level displays (8) to see the level in each moment reaches the feed inside the hopper (1), which It also has a conical bottom (9) that leads to a conduit (10) from which the feed accesses a horizontal tube (11) in which an endless (12) driven by a motor (13), which can be complemented by a battery (14) of power supply in case of lack of network supply, and even be powered by solar energy, providing for it the corresponding connection (15).

The tube (11) in which the endless one is located (13) flows into the outlet (4) of the hopper itself (1), all this so that when the engine is stopped and therefore the immobilized end, then no product passes or I think from the hopper (1) to the tube (11), while if the engine starts running, the endlessly it will turn and drag the feed that through the duct (10) falls on that endless (12), taking said feed to the exit (4) to reach the gutter (5) and be directed from it to the trough itself (2).

This installation is unitary for each animal, allowing, through the programmer (7), to supply feed as many times as they wish each day, logically programming them, and that the dose of the feed is also chosen through said programmer (7), with which the animal is fed automatically and always at the convenience and desire of the owner, without more than carrying out the relevant programming.

Claims (3)

1. Automatic feeding trough for horses, which being planned to allow feed to an equine as many times as desired per day and with the dose chosen in each of those feed times, is characterized by being constituted by combining a feed storage hopper and a feeder itself, the hopper being provided with a bottom that flows into a conduit in communication with a horizontal tube, in which an endless feed drag is provided towards an outlet of the hopper that it flows into a gutter through which the feed is directed directly to the feeder itself, the endless being operable by a motor and programmable in its operation by means of a programmer; it being provided that said hopper and feeder are mounted so that it is inaccessible to the animal by means of a separator, such as a wall, a grid or the like. 2. Automatic feeder for horses, according to claim 1, characterized in that the motor is powered through the corresponding power supply network, or through solar energy, being complemented by an eventual supply battery in case of power failure or solar. 3. Automatic feeder for horses, according to previous claims, characterized in that the hopper includes an upper cover and visors on its lateral surface, at different levels, to show at every moment the level of the feed inside the hopper.