JP4996911B2 - Feeding device in multi-stage cage system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention is a bait supply device at a bait intake attached to each stage in a multistage cage system.

As disclosed in Patent Document 1, when a powerful animal such as a pig eats food, it is arranged so as to inevitably hit a food hopper. And the apparatus which makes a feeding hopper perform a pendulum motion using the said operation | movement as a driving force using the phenomenon which hits the said hopper, and promotes feeding with the pendulum motion is proposed. If the bait hopper can swing according to this concept, the bait is continuously fed by the animal shaking the hopper before the bait disappears. On the other hand, as a method of discharging a certain amount of granular material from the hopper, there is a powder feeder such as a screw feeder, but even if only the discharge amount is managed, the vicinity of the hopper entrance to the outlet Or, the bait stays near the exit of the bait duct for supplying bait to the hopper, so that the bait does not arrive near the exit of the hopper, resulting in a problem that the bait discharge is insufficient or zero. It was.
Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 10-4814

  The present invention relates to a multistage cage system in which a bait duct that is vertically arranged and continuously feeds food, a hopper that is fed from the bait duct and receives feed at different heights, and a bait basket at the outlet of the hopper. In the bait supply system that is provided and supplies bait to each cage by the bait transport device provided in the bait, the bait supplied to the bait is supplied from the plurality of hoppers having different heights. Although it can be supplied without excess or deficiency at an early stage, it has been difficult to stably supply bait without excess or deficiency due to problems described later in long-term use.

  In other words, feed that is a fluid with unstable flow conditions is fed from a single feed duct to a hopper of different height so that the same flow rate can be obtained for any hopper. In the normal case where there is a difficult aspect in itself and feeding is performed by the weight of the bait, the bait itself generates a closed structure inside the bait duct or hopper even if a stable supply is temporarily made to all hoppers. As a result, there is a problem that the flow rate from the hopper outlet is interrupted or does not reach the planned flow rate even if the bait is sufficiently present in the duct. In addition, the interruption of the feed supply naturally leads to a very serious situation for the domestic chickens waiting for the feed in the cage. It was indispensable to look around the manager to monitor whether it was done, and the burden on the manager was heavy.

  In the above-mentioned environment, even if the hopper as in Patent Document 1 is simply adapted, and even if the swinging power is changed from an animal to an artificial one, the above-mentioned phenomenon that the food is interrupted or the flow rate of the food The phenomenon of drastically decreasing cannot be improved. This is because the aggregate of bait filled in the hopper is blocked by the following situation. The clogging phenomenon is that the bait particles filled in the hopper are joined together and the viscosity of the bait is naturally gathered in an arch shape, and a stunning occlusion structure is formed gradually. The passage of will be interrupted. In order to solve this problem, conventionally, when the flow rate of food is reduced, the blocking structure is forcibly broken and flowed manually. Furthermore, since the closed structure is formed not only in the above-described closed structure in the hopper but also in the bait duct, the closed structure has been manually forced to break and flow. Therefore, the above-mentioned problem cannot be solved by the existing idea. Moreover, the problem that the quality of the stagnant bait deteriorated simultaneously occurred. The present invention aims to solve these problems.

The present invention simultaneously bait to supply food to the Esatoi provided before feeding chicken multistage cages system, made to correspond to the food trough, a plurality of hoppers of different heights, with respect to said plurality of hoppers and food duct extending configured longitudinally to provide a Esatoi provided an outlet below the hopper, are configured within the bait trough, length of the Esatoi food that has fallen on the Esatoi In a feeding device of a multistage cage system, comprising a feeding device that moves in a direction,
The vibration device provided in the hopper is vibrated by the force obtained from the movement of the bait carrying device,
The vibration device disposed within the hopper is characterized in that it comprises an extension diaphragm extending toward said feed duct.

In the present invention, the vibrating device provided in the host wrapper, resulting arranged near the hopper outlet, and, by installed so as to close the hopper outlet, the vibration device during non-vibrating, naturally fall from a hopper The bait can have an action of suppressing the fall.

The effects of the invention defined in claim 1 are as follows.
The vibration device is configured such that vibration is generated exclusively when the feeding operation of the bait transporting device is performed. Therefore, the feeding operation more than necessary is not performed when the feeding operation of the feeding device is not performed.
On the other hand, satisfying both conditions of feeding without feeding clogging for a long period of time without a conventional vibration device and suppressing the feed from falling naturally when the feeding device stops It was difficult. However, if both the hopper and the bait duct are formed with a passage that continuously stirs using some kind of power, the above clogging phenomenon can be expected to be suppressed. Even when the transfer operation is not performed, a new problem arises that the food flows into the food basket. Moreover, when there is too much quantity of this flow of food, the problem that a food will fall to the circumference | surroundings at the timing which operates a bait conveying apparatus again will generate | occur | produce further. Moreover, the problem that the quantity of the food in the place food basket where the conveyance apparatus has stopped increases extremely occurs. The invention of claim 1 solves the above conflicting problems simultaneously. In other words, even when the hopper shape is such that the bait does not fall naturally (or only slightly falls) when the bait carrying device is stopped, the bait carrying device operates and the vibration device vibrates. Once started, the vibrations can provide a flow rate that is more than natural fall from the hopper exit, providing an ideal feed supply if the flow rate is comparable to the originally required feed supply. Is possible.

Moreover, the flow of the bait in the hopper is improved by the vibration device as described above as compared with the case where the vibration device is not provided. However, no matter how good the flow of food in the hopper, the flow of food may deteriorate in a food duct formed by a passage that is usually narrower than the upper opening of the hopper. This invention is configured so that the vibration device includes a long extension diaphragm that reaches the bait duct, so that the hopper is normally flowing, but the bait duct clogs the bait, As a result, it is possible to avoid a state where food is not supplied as scheduled.

The effects of the invention defined in claim 2 are as follows. As described in the effect of claim 1, even if the hopper shape is such that the bait does not fall naturally (or falls only slightly) when the bait carrying device is stopped, the bait carrying device operates. When the vibration device starts to vibrate, it is possible to bring a flow rate higher than the natural fall from the exit of the hopper by the vibration, but the vibration device itself may partially block the periphery of the hopper exit. By configuring, when the vibration device is stopped, it is possible to increase the area around the outlet of the hopper and the inner diameter of the food duct by making it difficult for the bait output from the hopper to come out. It becomes possible to make the difference between the output amount of the bait that is output during operation and the natural fall flow rate when the vibration device is stopped large and clear.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state where the bait supply device of the present invention is installed in a multistage cage system.
In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a multi-stage cage system in which a domestic chicken is housed in a cage indicated by a dotted line. In the system, the housed chicken is configured to be able to obtain food that passes through the immediate food basket 2.
A bait basket 2 is provided for each cage of each stage. In the example of FIG. 1, a four-stage bait basket 2 is equipped. A chain 3a constituting a part of the bait conveying device is provided in the bait basket 2. A chain feeder apparatus is mentioned as an example of this bait conveying apparatus. The bait 2 and the chain 3a are partially shown in FIG. 1, but actually, as shown in FIG. 2, the bait 2 and the chain 3a form a loop shape. Inside, two rows of multi-stage cage systems are installed. Further, each corner is provided with a corner mechanism 3b that can stably change the direction of the chain 3a in a right angle direction by a pulley or the like, so that the chain 3a can form a loop. Furthermore, the bait carried by these chains 3a is carried to the center in the longitudinal direction in FIG. 2, and the domesticated chicken can eat the bait there. The feeding place is indicated by space S1. Furthermore, the drive motor 3c is installed in the part where the domestic chicken does not appear, that is, the end space S2 on the left and right outside of the space S1. Further, a hopper 4 and a bait duct 5 for feeding bait to the hopper are fixedly installed in an end space S3 on the opposite side different from the drive motor. Note that the size (ratio) and the number of stages (number) of each component drawn in FIG. 2 differ depending on actual installation conditions or requests.

Details of the hopper 4 and the bait duct 5 will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged perspective view of the instruction line kk ′ shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 4 is a partial cross-sectional explanatory view taken along the direction of the bait 2 and FIG. FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the angle difference of FIG. 5. FIG. 6 is an explanatory view in which the internal structure can be seen partially.
In these drawings, the hopper 4 and the bait duct 5 are fixed by a structure not shown. Further, in the vicinity of the lower exit in the hopper 4, the device for guiding the force obtained from the movement of the bait transporting device into the hopper is, in this embodiment, the chain 3a for bait transporting and the movement of the chain 3a. It consists of a rotating disk 6a that is interlocked, and a projection 6c that is provided at a position off the center 6b of the rotating disk 6a. In the figure, the rotating disk 6a rotates clockwise according to the movement of the chain 3a of the bait transporting device. In addition, the apparatus which guide | induces the force obtained from the operation | movement which transfers this bait | feed conveyance apparatus in a hopper is useful also at the same time for dropping the bait | hung near the exit in the hopper 4. FIG.

The protrusion 6c rotates clockwise with the rotation of the rotating disk 6a, and hits one end of a leaf spring member 6d, which is a part of the vibration device 6, in the upper part of FIG. The other end of the leaf spring member 6d is spirally fastened to the hopper 4 by a bolt 6e. Accordingly, when the projection 6c hits one end, the leaf spring member 6d is temporarily biased upward with the bolt 6e as a fulcrum (see FIG. 7), while the projection 6c passes and is returned to its original position. Return to (see FIG. 6). By doing so, the leaf spring member 6d vibrates up and down in the drawing.
As the leaf spring member 6d vibrates, the bait around the leaf spring member 6d is actively vibrated, and as a result, the bait around the leaf spring member 6d falls without stagnation.
Further, in this embodiment, a mounting portion 6f is provided on one end side of the leaf spring member 6d, and an extension diaphragm 6g for extending the leaf spring member 6d further upward is bolted thereto. . The extended diaphragm 6g extends to the delivery position of the bait duct 5 through which bait is supplied to the hopper 4. Since this delivery position is narrower than the upper opening of the hopper 4, there is a tendency for food to stagnate. However, when the extension diaphragm 6 g is extended to the delivery position, when the leaf spring member 6 d vibrates, the vibration is reduced. The extension diaphragm 6g also vibrates through the attachment portion 6f. As a result, the stagnation of food not only at the hopper 4 but also at the delivery position of the food duct 5 is eliminated.
Referring to FIG. 8 added in addition to all the above drawings, the leaf spring member 6d is provided with a surface portion 6h when the bait is removed in the outlet direction in the installed state. This surface portion 6h works in a direction to stop the flow of food when the leaf spring member is stopped. On the other hand, the surface portion 6h is a surface that vibrates and transmits the vibration to surrounding bait. As a result, in the state where it is not vibrating, it acts to prevent the bait of the hopper 4 from passing in the direction of the outlet. It can be vibrated with a great influence on the bait, so that a lot of bait acts to flow out of the outlet of the hopper 4. When the bait transporting device is stopped by such an action, the bait falling from the hopper 4 is relatively less than when the leaf spring member 6d is not provided. Therefore, it is possible to prevent a large amount of food from being accumulated at a certain position. On the other hand, when the bait conveying device is operated, that is, when the chain 3a starts to move, the bait from the hopper 4 is positively dropped and even when continuously used, the leaf spring member 6d and the extension diaphragm 6g of vibration vibrates the food in the hopper and in the food duct, and the stagnation can be eliminated, so that stable food can flow continuously to the food basket.

  Although the bait conveying apparatus shown above utilizes a chain, it is not limited thereto. For example, instead of a chain, a net-like flexible object can be rotated. On the other hand, in the said Example, the operation | movement which the bait | feed conveyance apparatus transfers was provided in a part of the rotation disk via the rotation disk which vibrates the vibration apparatus provided in the hopper by the force obtained once. The protrusion vibrates the leaf spring member once for each rotation of the rotating disk. However, it is not always necessary to have this structure, and the extension member is extended upward from the leaf spring member. By extending toward the outlet of the hopper and extending to the point where the chain is uneven, the leaf spring member is vibrated each time the unevenness of the chain passes around the periphery of the hopper outlet. Is also possible. In this case, the vibration of the leaf spring member is continuous. Further, the frequency of vibration can be adjusted by changing the number of protrusions provided on the rotating disk.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a state where the bait supply device of the present invention is installed in a multistage cage system. FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which the bait basket and the chain form a loop shape. FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged perspective view of an instruction line k-k ′ shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is a partial cross-sectional explanatory view taken along the direction of the bait 2 in FIG. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view partially in section so that the internal structure can be seen with respect to the partially enlarged perspective view of FIG. 3. FIG. 6 is an explanatory sectional perspective view in which the front half of the hopper 4 and the front half of the bait 2 in the explanatory view shown in FIG. 4 are deleted and the internal structure is further visible. FIG. 7 is an explanatory cross-sectional perspective view showing a state in which the rotating disk 6a in FIG. 6 is rotated clockwise. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing a state where the inside of the hopper is clearly seen from the upper side where the bait duct is removed, and a state in which the leaf spring member occupies a part of the periphery of the hopper outlet. is there.

Explanation of symbols

1: Multistage cage system 2: Bait bowl 3a: Chain 3b: Corner mechanism 3c: Drive motor 4: Hopper 5: Bait duct 6: Vibration device 6a: Rotary disk 6b: Center (rotating shaft)
6c: Projection 6d: Leaf spring member 6g: Extension diaphragm

Claims (2)

In order to supply food to the Esatoi provided before feeding chicken multistage cages system, made to correspond to the food trough, a plurality of hopper heights different, so as to simultaneously supply the feed to said plurality of hoppers and food duct longitudinally extending configured, and Esatoi provided an outlet below the hopper, are configured within the bait trough, transferring the food that has fallen on the Esatoi in the longitudinal direction of the Esatoi In a feeding device of a multistage cage system, comprising a feeding device,
The vibration device provided in the hopper is vibrated by the force obtained from the movement of the bait carrying device,
The bait supply apparatus in a multistage cage system, wherein the vibration device provided in the hopper includes an extended diaphragm extending toward the bait duct . The vibration device disposed within said hopper provided near the outlet of the hopper, and installed so as to close the outlet of the hopper, the vibration device during non-vibrating, naturally fall from the hopper feed The bait supply device in the multistage cage system according to claim 1, characterized in that it has an action of suppressing a fall.

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