GB2198026A - Simplified and improved weight-operated animal feeders - Google Patents

Simplified and improved weight-operated animal feeders Download PDF

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GB2198026A
GB2198026A GB08628616A GB8628616A GB2198026A GB 2198026 A GB2198026 A GB 2198026A GB 08628616 A GB08628616 A GB 08628616A GB 8628616 A GB8628616 A GB 8628616A GB 2198026 A GB2198026 A GB 2198026A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/01—Feed troughs; Feed pails
    • A01K5/0114—Pet food dispensers; Pet food trays
    • A01K5/0142—Pet food dispensers; Pet food trays with means for preventing other animals or insects from eating
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/02—Automatic devices
    • A01K5/025—Automatic devices with doors or lids activated by the animals to access feeding place or trough

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Abstract

An animal-operated feeder has a single pivot shutter and pedal arrangement to prevent wild birds and other vermin having access. Wild birds cannot enter trough 11. Platform 15 hinged to the lower part of flap 13 prevents earth bound vermin from pushing past flap 13 Their weight is insufficient to actuate the platform. <IMAGE>

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Improvements to Weisht-ODerated Animal Feeders This invention relates to weight-operated animal feeders where access to the feed trough is prevented by a movable flap which is opened by an animal when it moves a pedal.
Such feeders are used to prevent the scavenging of food by vermin. They operate by employing the greater weight of the animal to most vermin to operate the flap.
To hold a larger amount of feed, a hopper container can be mounted above the trough(s).
According to the present invention a hinged flap blocks a gap between the trough and a cover above.
The flap may be hinged in one of several ways, each arrangement having particular advantages Three specific embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawing in which: Figure 1 shows a sectional end view of a trough and cover with the flap hinged above.
Figure 2 shows an end view with the flap hinged from a point in front.
Figure 3 shows an end elevation with a shutter fixed to a pedal which is hinged at the rear of the trough.
Referring to figure 1 the flap is so hinged that wild birds are prevented from entering the trough 11. Earth bound vermin are prevented from pushing past flap 13 by means of a platform 15 hinged to the lower part of the flap.
A small animal will stand on the platform 15 but its weight and leverage will prevent the flap 13 from opening.
Figure 2 shows and end view with a flap 16 hinged from a pivot 19 in front. Vermin are unable to push up flap 16 due to the interposition of flange 20.
Figure 3 shows an end elevation with the pedal 12 hinged to the rear of the trough 11 and cover 10.
The shutter 17 is returned to the closed position by means of spring 18.
The arrangements shown in figures 1 & 2 can be operated by either the feeding animal stepping on or pushing against pedal 14.
This last arrangement allows the use of such feeders for a large range of animals.

Claims (2)

1 An animal feeder having a shutter arrangement which prevents the entry of vermin utilising a single pivot.
2. An animal feeder, as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the shutter is connected to an animal-operated pedal.
3 An animal feeder as claimed in. Claim 1 and Claim 2, wherein the pedal is narrow such that only poultry can feed due to their greater reach.
4 An animal feeder as claimed in Claim 1 and 2, wherein feeding animals push against a pedal to raise the- shutter.
5 An animal feeder as claimed in Claim 1 and Claim 2, wherein a standard circular poultry feeder is provided with a poultry-operated shutter 6 An animal feeder as claimed in Claim 1, having a shutter arrangement controlled by solenoid.
GB08628616A 1986-11-29 1986-11-29 Simplified and improved weight-operated animal feeders Withdrawn GB2198026A (en)

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Cited By (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1995019700A1 (en) * 1994-01-21 1995-07-27 Medical Plastics (Aust) Pty. Ltd. Animal feeding apparatus
CN106922557A (en) * 2017-04-01 2017-07-07 福建农林大学 Feeding device is eaten in a kind of disc type anti-theft
CN106954562A (en) * 2017-04-01 2017-07-18 福建农林大学 Birds feeding device is eaten in a kind of link-type anti-theft

Citations (6)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB229366A (en) * 1923-10-23 1925-02-23 George Cowley Bingham Improved feeder for pigs and other animals
GB536842A (en) * 1939-11-28 1941-05-29 Arthur Robert Savile Improvements in poultry feeders
GB1102578A (en) * 1964-05-12 1968-02-07 Gregory & Hephrun Ltd Improvements in or relating to pig feeders
US3575141A (en) * 1969-10-08 1971-04-20 Frederick R Elkins Animal feeder
US4207839A (en) * 1978-11-09 1980-06-17 Barry Bernard R Bird feeder
US4541362A (en) * 1983-10-27 1985-09-17 Profile Management Services, Inc. Squirrel-proof selective bird feeder

Patent Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB229366A (en) * 1923-10-23 1925-02-23 George Cowley Bingham Improved feeder for pigs and other animals
GB536842A (en) * 1939-11-28 1941-05-29 Arthur Robert Savile Improvements in poultry feeders
GB1102578A (en) * 1964-05-12 1968-02-07 Gregory & Hephrun Ltd Improvements in or relating to pig feeders
US3575141A (en) * 1969-10-08 1971-04-20 Frederick R Elkins Animal feeder
US4207839A (en) * 1978-11-09 1980-06-17 Barry Bernard R Bird feeder
US4541362A (en) * 1983-10-27 1985-09-17 Profile Management Services, Inc. Squirrel-proof selective bird feeder

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1995019700A1 (en) * 1994-01-21 1995-07-27 Medical Plastics (Aust) Pty. Ltd. Animal feeding apparatus
US5709169A (en) * 1994-01-21 1998-01-20 Ryles; Louis Animal feeding apparatus
CN106922557A (en) * 2017-04-01 2017-07-07 福建农林大学 Feeding device is eaten in a kind of disc type anti-theft
CN106954562A (en) * 2017-04-01 2017-07-18 福建农林大学 Birds feeding device is eaten in a kind of link-type anti-theft
CN106954562B (en) * 2017-04-01 2019-12-24 福建农林大学 Connecting rod type poultry feeder capable of preventing poultry from being stolen

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