JP2835717B2 - Livestock waterer and livestock water supply - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a feeder for a barn and a water supply device for a barn to be installed in a barn such as a barn and a pig barn for supplying water to livestock such as a cow and a pig.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a water supply of this kind, for example, Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open Publication No. 62-83460 discloses a container body A and a frame body B.
And a water supply / discharge valve C, and a livestock water dispenser is disclosed, in which the livestock to be drunk feeds water into the main body A by pushing the valve operating plate forward with its nose. Further, as another conventional technique, a drinking mouth is formed in a cover portion of a container for accommodating drinking water, and a ball valve that floats in the container by buoyancy and closes the drinking mouth is provided. There is known a ball valve type water supply device which can drink water by pushing down a ball valve.

[0003]

Although the above-mentioned prior art is useful as a water supply device, there are the following problems particularly with respect to a water supply device used in a barn. That is, in the barn, an open type structure in which the inside of the barn for growing the cow is brought to a temperature close to the outside temperature has been adopted in recent years. For this reason, it is necessary to prevent the water supply and the piping connected to the water supply from freezing because the temperature in the barn drops to minus in winter, but the above-described conventional technology has a configuration that takes into consideration the prevention of freezing. Not. For this reason, a method of heating by wrapping a heating wire around the water supply and energizing it is performed, but has a drawback that the electricity bill increases and a fault such as a fire due to electric leakage is inevitable. .
In addition, even if the water supply can be prevented from freezing, there is a drawback that the freezing cannot be prevented because the piping system is disposed so as to be exposed to the outside.

[0004] Further, if the water supply device is formed into a shape that is easy for a cow to drink, feed and litter and the like can easily enter the water supply device. However, the conventional ball valve type water supply device removes the litter and the like contained in the container. To do so, it is necessary to remove the upper cover part, and there is a disadvantage that handling is troublesome. In addition, it is installed and used in a passage before the stall, but has a drawback that it is obstructed during a feeding operation, a refilling operation of a litter, and the like due to a large shape.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and has a simple structure, and has excellent handling characteristics because piping and the like are not clogged by a litter or the like.
In addition, since the water can be completely drained in the winter season, the water supply for livestock pens that can reliably prevent freezing and the drainage of drinking water from multiple water feeders for livestock pens can be performed collectively, resulting in excellent workability. In addition, it is an object of the present invention to provide a livestock barn water supply device that can surely prevent freezing of a piping system.

[0006]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a container having a bottomed container for accommodating drinking water having an upper opening serving as a drinking spout. A water supply cylinder installed on the floor of the livestock barn, an inner cylinder having a water supply hole on the upper side communicating with the water supply cylinder, and standing upright at the bottom of the water supply cylinder, and a lower part of the inner cylinder A drain communication hole that is formed on the side and communicates the inside of the inner cylinder with the inside of the water supply cylinder, and is fitted removably into the water supply cylinder and placed on the upper end of the inner cylinder in a submerged state. A partition lid for vertically defining the inside of the water supply cylinder, a water supply / drain pipe projecting from the bottom of the water supply cylinder into the inner cylinder and having a discharge port on an upper side, and located near the bottom of the water supply cylinder. And a small-diameter drainage hole formed in the water supply / drain pipe.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for solving the above-mentioned problems, wherein the lower part is installed in a state where the lower side is buried in a floor of a barn, and stores drinking water supplied from the outside. A water supply tank and a water intake opening are provided in the water supply tank, and the downstream side is disposed in the floor of the livestock barn in a state of communicating with the drainage channel side, and the water supply / drainage pipe of the water supply device for livestock barns according to claim 1 is connected in the middle. The main water supply and drainage, which is disposed in the water supply tank to maintain a predetermined amount of water in the water supply for the livestock,
A liquid level control means for maintaining the liquid level in the water supply tank at a specified height, and a water drain valve provided in the water supply tank at a position lower than a water drain hole of the livestock water supply device. Consists of

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a water supply device for livestock pens according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a cattle water supply device as a cattle water supply device. Numeral 2 denotes a cow water supply device 1, which is a water supply cylinder formed of a synthetic resin such as vinyl chloride, for example. The water supply cylinder 2 has a bottom 2A and a bottom 2A.
It is formed in a cylindrical container having an upper opening from a body 2B standing up along the periphery of A, and the opening serves as a drinking mouth 2C for cows drinking water. The water supply cylinder 2 is installed with its lower part buried about one-third in the floor A of the barn.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a synthetic resin inner cylinder which stands on the bottom 2A of the water supply cylinder 2. The inner cylinder 3 is formed of a cylinder whose upper and lower ends are open. The inner cylinder 3 is formed to have a small diameter so that a space A is formed between the inner cylinder 3 and the water supply cylinder 1, and the height is 10 times higher than that of the water supply cylinder 1.
It is set low by about 15 cm. Reference numerals 4, 4,... Denote four water supply holes formed at a position near the upper end 3A of the inner cylinder 3 and spaced apart in the circumferential direction. It communicates inside. . Reference numeral 5 denotes a slit-shaped drain communication hole formed on the lower end side of the inner cylinder 3, and the interior of the inner cylinder 3 and the interior of the water supply cylinder 2 are communicated by the drain communication hole 5.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a partition lid that defines the inside of the water supply cylinder 2 above and below. The partition lid 6 is formed in a disk having a diameter slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the water supply cylinder 2 so that it can be taken out from the outside of the water supply cylinder 2, is loosely fitted into the water supply cylinder 2, and is submerged in drinking water in an inner cylinder. 3 is placed so as to cover the upper end 3A. A plurality of communication holes 7 are formed on the outer peripheral side of the partition lid 6 in the circumferential direction and are spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction, and the upper and lower sides of the partition lid 6 communicate with each other in the water supply cylinder 2.

Reference numeral 8 denotes a water supply / drainage pipe projecting from the outside of the bottom 2A of the water supply cylinder 2 into the inner cylinder 3. The water supply / drain pipe 8 has a discharge port 8A at the upper end positioned above the water supply hole 4 of the inner cylinder 3, and a lower end located outside the water supply cylinder 2 is a T-shaped connection pipe portion 8B. I have. Reference numeral 9 denotes a drain hole formed in the axial direction of the water supply / drainage pipe 8 and having a diameter of about 15 mm in the embodiment. The drain hole 9 is disposed at substantially the same position as the upper surface of the bottom 2A. The inside of the inner cylinder 3 is communicated with the inside of the water supply / drain pipe 8. The water supply / drainage pipe 8 having the above-described configuration is configured such that the connection pipe portion 8B is connected in the middle of a water supply / drainage main pipe 12 described later.

The cow waterer 1 according to the present embodiment has the above-described configuration, and includes a plurality of cow waterers 1, 1,.
Is installed in the passage on the front side of the stall at a predetermined interval and used. The drinking water supplied through the water supply / drainage main pipe 12 is supplied to the discharge port 8 of the water supply / drainage pipe 8 in each cow water supply device 1.
A and the drain hole 9 flows into the inner cylinder 3, and further flows from the water supply hole 4 and the drain communication hole 5 into the water supply cylinder 2, and the communication holes 7 and the partition lid 6 of the partition lid 6 and the water supply cylinder 2 to a drinking mouth 2C of the water supply cylinder 2 is stored.

The operation for replenishment when the drinking water in the water supply cylinder 2 is reduced and the operation for draining water in winter are described below.
This will be described together with the operation of the cattle water supply device described later.

Next, a cow water supply device including the cow water supply device 1 will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 11 denotes a water supply tank for supplying drinking water to the cow waterer 1. The water supply tank 11 has a bottom 11A.
And a trunk 11B rising from the periphery of the bottom 11A, and is installed with the lower half buried in the floor A. Reference numeral 12 denotes a water supply / drain main pipe provided between the water supply tank 11 and the drainage ditch side. The water supply / drain main pipe 12 has a water intake port 12A opening into the water supply tank 11 at a lower position than the bottom 2A of the water supply cylinder 2, and is buried in the floor a to prevent freezing in the pipe. is there. And
In the middle of the water supply / drainage main pipe 12, a plurality of cow waterers 1, 1,.
Each of the water supply / drain pipes 8 is connected, and an on-off valve 13 for water discharge is provided on the downstream side.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a discharge pipe provided in the water supply tank 11 and serving as an overflow pipe and a drain pipe. The discharge pipe 14 has an overflow port 14A at the upper end which is flush with the liquid level B of the cattle feeder 1. , And the drain port 14B communicates with the drain groove B. A normally closed drain valve is provided in the discharge pipe 14 at a position slightly lower than the drain hole 9 of the cow waterer 1. The drain valve 15 discharges the potable water in the water supply tank 11 to the drain ditch side by opening the valve, and when the liquid level of the potable water reaches the drain valve 15, the water in the cow waterer 1 is discharged. Drinking water also flows out of the drain hole 9 into the water supply / drain pipe 8.

Further, reference numeral 16 denotes a replenishing tank for constantly replenishing the water supply tank 11 with drinking water. The replenishing tank 16 is supplied with city water or groundwater serving as drinking water. Reference numeral 17 denotes the drinking water in the supply tank 16 and the water supply tank 11.
A supply pipe provided in a supply tank 16 for supplying water to the side of the cow. At the end of the supply pipe 17, the liquid level B of the cow waterer 1 is maintained at a predetermined level by keeping the amount of water in the water supply tank 11 constant. There is provided a float valve 18 for keeping the supply water, and a stop valve 19 for stopping supply from the supply tank 16 when the desired amount of drinking water in the water supply tank 11 is drained.

In the figure, reference numeral 20 denotes a control valve provided at the water inlet 12A of the water supply / drain main pipe 12, and the control valve 20 is connected to the water supply tank 1
1 includes a plumbing main 12 and a plurality of cattle waterers 1, 1,.
When a plurality of water supply systems are connected, the water supply to one water supply system is stopped or the water supply to one water supply system is controlled to open and close.

The cattle water supply apparatus according to the present embodiment has the above-described configuration, and its operation will be described next. The water supply tank 11 is replenished with drinking water from a replenishing tank 16, and the amount of the water is always kept constant by a discharge pipe 14. The cattle waterer 1 communicates with a water supply tank 11 through a water supply / drain main pipe 12 and a water supply / drainage pipe 8, and the liquid level B of the cow waterer 1 is changed to the liquid level B of the water supply tank 11.
Drinking water is always supplied while keeping the same surface.
When the drinking water in each cow water supply device 1 decreases, the amount of water in the water supply tank 11 also decreases, and as a result, the float valve 1
8 is opened, and drinking water is supplied from the supply tank 16.

In winter, cattle waterers 1, 1,.
..When draining drinking water, drain valve 1
5 and the on-off valve 13 are opened. As a result, the drinking water in the water supply tank 11 is discharged from the discharge pipe 14 to the drain ditch side, and the water drain valve 15 is disposed at a lower position than the cow waterer 1, so that the amount of water in the water supply tank 11 is reduced. Cow waterer 1
When the water is further reduced to below, the drinking water in the cow water supply device 1 is discharged to the drain ditch side via the water supply / drain pipe 8. in this case,
The drinking water in the water supply cylinder 2 flows into the inner cylinder 3 through the drainage communication hole 5, and flows out of the drainage hole 9 through the water supply / drainage pipe 8 to the water supply / drainage main pipe 12 side. In addition, since the plumbing main pipe 12 is buried and piped in the floor part A of the cowshed, the inside of the plumbing main pipe 12 does not freeze. When draining water, the amount of water in the water supply tank 11 does not need to be always zero, and the amount of water discharged may be determined according to a situation where the temperature decreases. In this case, the drain valve 15 and the on-off valve 13 Can be appropriately operated to drain water.

Although the water amount in the water supply tank 11 is kept constant by the overflow pipe 14 and the float valve 18 in the present embodiment, the water amount may be controlled by the float valve 18.

Further, the present embodiment has been described by way of an example in which the apparatus is installed in a barn, but the present invention can also be used for supplying water to other livestock such as pigs.

[0022]

The present invention has the following advantages because it is constructed as described above. (1) The inside of the water supply cylinder containing drinking water is vertically defined by a removable lid so that litter and the like do not enter the bottom side of the water supply cylinder, so that the litter and the like can be easily removed. In addition, since the amount of litter, dust, and the like that accumulate in the water supply cylinder is reduced, the cleaning effort is also reduced. (2) Since the livestock water supply does not use movable parts such as an on-off valve, the water supply is excellent in durability without a failure and has almost no maintenance cost. (3) The water supply opening of the water supply / drainage pipe is open at the upper side of the inner cylinder, and the drainage hole is made small so that litter, dust, etc. can flow into the water supply / drainage main pipe through the water supply / drainage pipe as much as possible. Since it is prevented, the accident that the piping system is clogged can be almost eliminated. (4) The water supply for the livestock house and the water supply tank are connected via the water supply / drainage main pipe, and by opening the drain valve, the drinking water can be discharged from the water supply for the livestock house. The workability is excellent because water can be collectively drained from a plurality of livestock waterers connected to the plumbing mains. (5) The liquid level in the water supply tank can be automatically maintained at the specified height, and thereby the desired amount of water can be automatically maintained in each livestock water supply device. can do. (6) Since the water supply / drainage main pipe is arranged in the floor of the livestock barn, it is possible to prevent the piping system from freezing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cutaway perspective view of a cow waterer according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a central vertical sectional view of a cow waterer.

FIG. 3 is an overall configuration diagram of a cow water supply device including a cow water supply device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cattle water supply device 2 Water supply cylinder 2C Drinking opening 3 Inner cylinder 4 Water supply hole 5 Drainage communication hole 6 Partition lid 8 Water supply / drainage pipe 9 Drainage hole 11 Water supply tank 12 Water supply / drainage main pipe 12A Water intake port 14 Release pipe 15 Drainage valve B floor

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] An upper opening serves as a drinking spout, is formed in a bottomed container shape for accommodating drinking water therein, and communicates with a water supply cylinder installed on the floor of a barn and an upper side into the water supply cylinder. An inner cylinder having a water supply hole, and provided upright at the bottom of the water supply cylinder; a drainage communication hole formed at a lower side of the inner cylinder to communicate between the inner cylinder and the inside of the water supply cylinder; A partition lid that is removably fitted into the inner cylinder and is placed on the upper end of the inner cylinder in a submerged state to vertically define the inside of the water cylinder, and the inside of the inner cylinder from the bottom of the water cylinder. And a small-diameter drainage hole formed in the water supply / drainage pipe near the bottom of the water supply cylinder. 2. A water supply tank, which is installed with its lower part buried in the floor of a livestock barn and stores drinking water supplied from the outside, an intake opening opening into the water supply tank, and a downstream side provided with a drainage channel side. A water supply / drainage main pipe, which is disposed in the floor of the livestock barn in communication with the water supply / drainage pipe of the water supply for livestock house according to claim 1, and the water supply of the water supply system for the livestock house is maintained at a predetermined amount. A liquid level control means for maintaining the liquid level in the water supply tank at a specified height, and a liquid level control means for maintaining the liquid level in the water supply tank at a level lower than a drainage hole of the livestock feeder; A water supply device for livestock barns, comprising a drain valve provided.