JPH08308427A - Apparatus for feeding formula feed - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To surely supply a feed to a breeding fish in an amount appropriate to the kind and size of the fish while keeping the water-quality in a good state without polluting the water in the fish breeding tank and to facilitate the feeding work all the year round. CONSTITUTION: This feeding apparatus is composed of a 1st pneumatic transfer means 7 to take a granular artificial formula feed 2 from a feed storage hopper 3 and pneumatically transfer the feed to feed hoppers 4, 5, 6, metering delivery means 11, 12, 13 to measure a prescribed amount of the feed stored in the feed hopper and deliver the metered feed to temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, 10, a 2nd pneumatic transfer means 37 to pneumatically transfer the feed stored in the temporary storage hopper to a fish breeding tank arbitrarily selected by branching means 14, 15 and an automatic control device to control the above means.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a compound feed feeding device, and more particularly to a compound feed feeding device for accurately feeding the feed to fry or the like bred in a fish tank.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hitherto, it has been necessary to rely on manpower to feed artificially mixed feed to fry or the like bred in a fish tank. In this case, since it is natural that a plurality of the above-mentioned fish tanks are usually installed, it takes a lot of labor and time to feed the artificial compound feed to each of these fish tanks.

Further, when fry and the like having different growing days are bred in each fish tank, it is necessary to change the feed amount to be fed or feed the feeds having different sizes in order to cope with this. However, feeding methods that rely on human labor were extremely difficult due to variations and had limitations.

Further, due to the variation in the input amount of the above-mentioned feed, the above-mentioned feed remains as residual food and accumulates at the bottom of the fish tank, which deteriorates the water quality condition of the fish tank and may hinder the growth of fry and the like. There was

By the way, recently, various feeding devices have been proposed and put into practical use which can feed artificially mixed feeds automatically without relying on human labor, but most of these feeding devices are stored in a storage hopper. Since the means for pneumatically transporting the feed and the means for pneumatically transporting the feed stored in the storage hopper to the fish tank are performed by one (one system) pneumatic transport means, the pipe connection is complicated. However, it was easy to break down, and it was troublesome to handle and had a functional difficulty.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such a point of view, and in particular, it is possible to feed the feed accurately in accordance with the kind and size of the breeding fish, and by this, It is an object of the present invention to propose a compound feed feeding device which can keep water quality of a fish tank without being polluted at all times and can easily perform feeding work regardless of the four seasons.

[0007]

Means for Solving the Problems As means for solving the above problems, the compound feed feeding device according to the present invention is provided with a feed storage hopper in which powdered or granular artificial compound feed is charged and stored. A first air transporting means for taking out the artificial blended feed and pneumatically transporting it to the feed popper, and a metering-out means for weighing out a predetermined amount of the artificial blended feed stored in the feed hopper and sending it to the temporary storage hopper, The temporary storage hopper is constituted by a second air transporting means for pneumatically transporting the artificial compound feed stored in the temporary storage hopper to the fish tank arbitrarily selected by the branching means, and an automatic control device for controlling each of these means. It is characterized by

[0008]

As described above, according to the mixed feed feeding apparatus of the present invention, the first feed means for taking out the artificial mixed feed from the feed storage hopper and pneumatically transporting it to the feed popper. And, the artificial blended feed stored in the feed hopper is weighed by a predetermined amount and sent out to the temporary storage hopper, and the artificial blended feed stored in the temporary storage hopper is arbitrarily selected by the branching means. The second pneumatic transportation means for pneumatic transportation to the fish tank is configured to be controlled by the automatic control device. Therefore,
For example, it is possible to store data and programs such as the type, size, input amount, and time of the preset food corresponding to the type and size of the fish to be bred in the fish tank in the automatic control device. , The above-mentioned means operate based on the data and program stored in the automatic control device corresponding to the fish bred in the above-mentioned fish tank, and are efficient in accordance with the fish bred in the above-mentioned fish tank. Feeding of artificial compound feed can be performed.

Further, by feeding the artificial blended feed in such an efficient manner, the artificial blended feed does not remain as residual food and accumulate at the bottom of the fish tank.
Because the water quality of the fish tank can always be kept normal,
There is no fear of hindering the growth of fish in the fish tank. In addition, feeding work can be done easily throughout the four seasons.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An example of an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes a compound feed feeding device according to the present invention, and the compound feed feeding device 1
Is a first air transportation means 7 for taking out the artificial blended feed 2 from the feed storage hopper-3 in which the granular artificial blended feed 2 is input and stored and pneumatically transporting it to the feed poppers -4, 5, 6. The artificial feed mixture 2 stored in the above-mentioned feed hoppers-4, 5 and 6 is weighed by a predetermined amount and temporarily stored in hoppers-8 and 9.
10 and the weighing-feeding means 11, 12, 13
A second pneumatic transportation means 37 for pneumatically transporting the artificial blended feed material 2 stored in the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, 10 to any one of the fish tanks 16 to 35 arbitrarily selected by the branching means 14, 15. , And an automatic control device 38 for controlling each of these means.

The feed storage hopper-3 is formed with an opening (not shown) with a lid for feeding the artificially mixed feed 2, and one end of the pipe 40 penetrates to the vicinity of the bottom inside at the center of the upper part. Is attached to. Further, by forming the opening with the lid, it is possible to add the artificial blended feed 2 depending on the size and type as needed.

The food poppers -4, 5 and 6 are arranged side by side in the lateral direction, and a suction chamber 4a is provided in the upper part thereof.
One ends of the pipes 41, 42, 43 are internally attached to the side surfaces of 5a, 6a in a penetrating state. In addition, the pipe 41,
The other ends of 42 and 43 are connected to the other end of the pipe 40. Further, the upper ends of the suction chambers 4a, 5a, 6a are substantially centered, and the upper ends are suction chambers 4a, 5a, 6a.
A curved baffle 45 fixed to the upper surface of the is provided. Furthermore, the upper surfaces of the feed poppers -4, 5 and 6 corresponding to the lower portions of the suction chambers 4a, 5a and 6a are formed in an inverted c-shape, and an opening / closing plate 46 is provided.

Next, the first air transporting means 7 is formed by an exhaust blower 7a using a drive motor as a drive source, and the exhaust blower 7a is manually operated by an operation panel 49. . In addition, the exhaust blower 7a
One end of a pipe 50 is connected to
At the other end of the feed popper -4, 5, 6 suction chamber 4
a, 5a, 6a attached to the pipes 51, 52, 5
The tips of 3 are connected. Furthermore, the above-mentioned pipes 51, 5
A two-way valve 54 is attached midway between 2 and 53. Then, according to the first air transportation means 7, the pipes 51, 5
By operating the two-way valve 54 provided in the middle of 2, 53, the artificial compound feed 2 can be taken out and pneumatically transported to any of the arbitrarily selected feed poppers -4, 5, 6.

The exhaust blower 7a is not necessarily limited to manual operation, and may be formed so as to be operated automatically, and the two-way valve 54 is also formed so as to be automatically operated. May be.

At the center of the upper part of the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9 and 10, the artificial compound feed 2 which is provided below the feed poppers 4, 5 and 6 and which is stored in the feed poppers 4, 5 and 6 is provided. A predetermined amount is weighed and the temporary storage hoppers-8, 9,
Pipes 56, 57 and 58 connected to the metering and delivering means 11, 12 and 13 for delivering to 10 are attached. An electric valve 60 is attached to the middle of the pipes 56, 57 and 58. In addition, the temporary storage hoppers-8, 9,
An electric valve 65 and a large-diameter socket 66 are attached in the middle of the pipes 62, 63, 64 attached to the lower part of 10.

Next, the metering and sending means 11, 12, 13
Is composed of a drive motor 68 and a screw conveyor 69 connected to the output shaft of the drive motor 68. The metering and sending means 11, 12, and 13 are formed so as to control the weight by the product of the rotational speed of the drive motor 68 and time. In this case, the volume and weight of the artificial blended feed 2 are checked in advance, and the data is stored in the automatic control device 38 described later. Further, the amount of delivery can be freely changed by examining the relationship between the volume and the weight depending on the type of artificial blended feed 2.

Five branching means 14 are provided so as to be branched in four directions, and one branching means 15 is provided so as to be branched in five directions. That is, the structure of each of the branching means 14 will be described as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. Each of the branching means 14 is attached to a shaft member 72 supported by a support plate 71 standing upright on the front part of the base 70. It is formed by a spur gear 73 rotatably attached and a drive motor 74. The gear 75 fixed to the output shaft of the drive motor 74 and the spur gear 73 mesh with each other.

A pair of wheels 76 are attached to the outer surface of the spur gear 73, and the wheels 76 are rotatably housed in an annular guide groove 77 formed on the inner surface of the support plate 71. There is. A through hole 78 is formed near the outer periphery of the spur gear 73 from the outer surface to the inner surface, and short pipes 79 and 80 are screwed to the front and rear portions of the through hole 78. An O-ring 84 is attached to the outer circumference of the tip of the short tube 79, and a pipe 81 made of a flexible material such as rubber or vinyl is connected to the tip of the short tube 80. There is. Further, the tip of the pipe 81 is connected to a short pipe 83 screwed to a support plate 82 provided upright on the rear portion of the base 70.

A nut 8 is provided at the end of the shaft member 72 located on the back side of the spur gear 73 rotatably attached to the shaft member 72.
5, the nut 85 and the spur gear 7 are screwed together.
The shaft member 72 between the pair of coil spring receiving members 8 and
6 and the flat seat type thrust bearing 87 are loosely fitted. Then, the flat seat type thrust bearing 8 is generated by the elastic force of the coil spring 89 interposed between the coil spring receiving members 86.
7, the spur gear 73 is always pressed toward the support plate 71.

Four through holes 90 are formed at equal intervals in the support plate 71, a short pipe 91 is screwed to the front part of each through hole 90, and the spur gear 73 is provided to the rear part. A dish-shaped recess 92 for receiving the O-ring 84 provided on the outer periphery of the distal end of the short tube 79 screwed to the front portion of the through hole 78 in an engaged state is formed. The through holes 90 correspond to the through holes 78 provided in the spur gear 73, and
Are provided so that they engage with each other when rotating. A pipe 93 is connected to each of the short pipes 91, and a tip of the pipe 93 is connected to a feed blowout portion 95 provided in the fish tank 16 to 35.

The rotation of the spur gear 73 uses the drive motor 74 as a power source, and after the drive motor 74 is controlled in operation, the through hole 78 and the support plate 71 provided in the spur gear 73 are controlled.
It is formed so as to stop only when any of the through-holes 90 provided in the corresponding position. In this case, as a method of stopping the drive motor 74, for example, a limit switch (not shown) is provided near the annular guide groove 77 formed on the support plate 71, and the limit switch is provided on the spur gear 73 during rotation. The limit switch may be activated and stopped when the through hole 78 and the through hole 90 provided in the support plate 71 correspond to each other. Further, the limit switch may be provided in the number corresponding to each through hole 90, or may be one.

The feed blowout portion 95 has a joint portion 96 to which the tip of the pipe 93 is connected, a delivery pipe 97 rotatably attached to the joint portion 96, and a joint 98 at the tip of the delivery pipe 97. It is formed by a blowing pipe 99 that is rotatably attached. And
The bait outlet 95 is the pedestrian bridge 1 provided above each fish tank.
It is attached to 00.

The structure of the branching means 15 is as shown in FIG.
The structure is substantially the same as that of each of the branching means 14, the same parts are designated by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof will be omitted. However, the difference between the branching means 15 and the branching means 14 is the branching means 15
The support plate 71 is formed with five through holes 90 at predetermined intervals, and the tip of the pipe 101 connected to the short pipe 91 screwed to the front portion of each through hole 90 has the tip of the branching means 14 described above. It is configured to be connected to the short pipe 83.

Next, the artificial compound feed 2 stored in the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9 and 10 is pneumatically transported to any of the fish tanks 16 to 35 arbitrarily selected via the branching means 14 and 15. The second pneumatic transportation means 37 is a compressor 37.
and the compressor-3.
The pipe 105 connected to 7a has two directions 105a, 1
It is branched to 05b.

Three three-way valves 106 are connected in parallel at the tip of one branched pipe 105a, and a two-way valve 107 and a pressure adjusting valve 10 are provided in the middle of the pipe 105a.
8 and are attached. Also, the above three three-way valves 106
The tip of the pipe 109 attached to the lower part of the above is connected to one side of the upper part of the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, and 10.

The tip of the other branched pipe 105b is connected to the short pipe 83 of the branching means 15, and the two-way valve 110 and the pressure adjusting valve 1 are provided in the middle of the pipe 105b.
11 and 11 are attached. Furthermore, the pressure control valve 11
In the pipe 105b between the 1 and the branching means 15, the pipe 62 attached to the lower part of the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, and 10,
The tips of 63 and 64 are connected.

The automatic control device 38 is composed of a personal computer, and the personal computer is connected to the control panel 115. The automatic control device 38 has a fish tank 16
To 35, storing the data and program such as the type, size, input amount, and input time of the pre-set food corresponding to the type and size of the fish to be raised in The means 3, 11 to 13, 37, the two-way valves 54, 63, and the three-way valve 106 are controlled via the control panel 115 based on the command from the personal computer corresponding to the fish raised in 16 to 35. , Is provided so as to efficiently feed the feed suitable for the fish in the fish tank. Reference numeral 116
Indicates a signal cable connecting the above-mentioned means, a two-way valve, a three-way valve, etc. and the automatic control device 38.

Reference numeral 117 indicates a fine particle quantitative feeding device, and the fine particle quantitative feeding device 117 feeds particles having a particle size of generally 0 or 3 mm or less.
It is provided to set the feeding time. Further, the feed is stored in the device so that it can be replenished.

Since the mixed feed feeding device 1 is constructed as described above, in using the feed feeding device 1, first, the exhaust blower 7a of the first air transport means 7 is manually operated to operate the feed storage hopper-3. The artificial blended feed 2 is sucked and pneumatically transported to any or all of the feed poppers 4, 5, and 6. In this case, the feeds in the feed poppers-4, 5 and 6 may be different in size and type.

Next, when the above-mentioned work is completed, the personal computer of the automatic control device 38 is operated, and according to the data and the program such as the kind, the size, the feeding amount and the feeding time of the food stored in the personal computer. As shown in FIG. 8, the branching means 15
At the same time that the drive motor 74 of the
3 rotates. The through hole 7 provided in the spur gear 73
8 and the through hole 90 provided in the support plate 71 correspond to each other, the drive motor 74 is stopped, whereby any one of the five branching means 14 is arbitrarily selected, and
The selected branching means 14 and branching means 15 are pipes 1
01 to connect.

Next, the arbitrarily selected branching means 14 rotates the spur gear 73 at the same time as the drive motor 74 is operated and controlled by the instruction stored in the personal computer of the automatic control device 38 in the same manner as described above. . When any of the through holes 78 provided in the spur gear 73 and any of the through holes 90 provided in the support plate 71 correspond to each other, the drive motor 74 is stopped, whereby the fish tanks 16 to 16 arbitrarily selected. Form a plumbing route for feeding the feed to any of the 35.

In conjunction with this, the electric poppet poppers -4, 5 and 6 are also operated by instructions similarly stored in the personal computer to open the motor-operated valve 60 provided in the pipes 56, 57 and 58 at the same time, and at the same time, the above-mentioned feed popper is opened. -4, the driving motors 68 of the metering and feeding means 11, 12, 13 provided at the lower part of the 5, 6 rotate for a predetermined time to feed a predetermined amount of the feed to the feed popper.
It is sent from 4, 5, and 6 to the temporary storage hoppers, 8, 9, and 10. Then, when it is confirmed that the feeding operation is completed, the electric valve 60 is closed.

Next, when the motor-operated valve 60 is closed, the compressor 37a of the second pneumatic transportation means 37 is activated,
The compressed air is sent to the pipe 105, and the air is sent to the portion of the pipe 105 branched into two directions 105a and 105b. That is, one is the pipe 105a
It is fed into the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, 10 through three three-way valves 106 provided at the tip of the. The other one is pipe 1.
It is fed into the branching means 15 connected to the tip of 05b. By the way, since the pressure adjusting valve 108 is provided in the middle of the one pipe 105a and the pressure adjusting valve 111 is provided in the other pipe 105b, the pressure adjusting valve 108,
By adjusting 111, the pressure adjusting valves 10
From 8 and 111 onward, the air pressure in one pipe 105a is adjusted to be slightly higher than the air pressure in the other pipe 105b.

Compressor of the second pneumatic transportation means 37
In the state in which 37a is operating, the automatic control device 38
Temporary storage hopper according to the instructions stored in the personal computer
Any one of the conductive valves 60 corresponding to 8, 9, 10 is arbitrarily selected, and the selected temporary storage of the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, 10 is performed by opening the selected conductive valve 60. The feed in the hopper is pneumatically transported to the branching means 15 by the air pressure difference, and the artificial blended feed 2 can be fed via the branching means 14 to any one of the fish tanks 16 to 35 arbitrarily selected. .

In addition to the above, feeding can also be carried out by a fine grain fixed amount feeding device 117 provided near the fish tank. In this case, the artificial blended feed generally has a particle size of 0 or 3 mm or less, and is provided so that the feeding start time and feeding time are set by the timer setting. In addition, the artificial compound feed is stored in the device so that it can be replenished.

As described above, according to the mixed feed feeding apparatus 1, the first pneumatic transportation means 7 for taking out the artificial mixed feed from the feed storage hopper-3 and pneumatically transporting it to the feed poppers-4, 5, 6. A predetermined amount of the artificial blended feed 2 stored in the feed hoppers 4, 5 and 6 is weighed and a temporary storage hopper-8,
Weighing-out means 11, 12, 13 for sending out to 9, 10
And a second air transportation means 37 for pneumatically transporting the artificial mixed feed 2 stored in the temporary storage hoppers 8, 9, 10 to the fish tanks 16 to 35 arbitrarily selected by the branching means 14, 15. Since it is configured to be controlled by the personal computer of the automatic control device 38, for example, the fish tank 16
The data and programs such as the type, size, input amount and time of the artificial feed mixture set in advance corresponding to the type and size of the fish to be bred in 35 to 35 are stored in the automatic control device 38. As a result, by simply tapping the personal computer of the automatic control device 38, it is possible to feed the feed efficiently according to the fish raised in the fish tanks 16 to 35.

Also, the artificial blended feed 2 which is efficient in this way
By feeding the above-mentioned, the artificial mixed feed is not left as bait and is not accumulated at the bottom of the fish tanks 16 to 35.
As a result, the water quality condition of the fish tank can always be kept normal, and there is no risk of hindering the growth of the fish.
In addition, feeding work can be done easily throughout the four seasons.

Furthermore, the first air transport means 7 for taking out the artificially mixed feed 2 from the feed storage hopper-3 and pneumatically transporting it to the feed poppers-4, 5, 6 and the temporary storage hopper-8,
Branching means 1 for artificially mixed feed stored in 9, 10
Since the second pneumatic transportation means 37 for pneumatic transportation to the fish tanks 16 to 35 arbitrarily selected by Nos. 4 and 15 is formed in a different system, the piping is not clogged and the cause of the failure is eliminated. At the same time, it is easy to handle and has excellent functionality.

Furthermore, by providing the fine-quantity quantitative feeding device 117, it is possible to automatically and simply feed the particles having a particle size of 0 or 3 mm or less.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a main part of a mixed feed feeding device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a fish tank of the above-described compound feed feeding device.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of the fish tank.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the fish tank.

FIG. 5 is a feed hopper in the above-mentioned compound feed feeder.
FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing the relationship between the weighing and sending means and the temporary storage hopper.

FIG. 6 is a structural explanatory view of a branching unit in the mixed feed feeding device.

FIG. 7 is a side view of the branching means.

FIG. 8 is a structural explanatory view of a branching unit in the mixed feed feeding device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 mixed feed feeding device 2 artificial mixed feed 2 3 feed storage hopper-4 feed hopper-5 feed hopper-6 feed hopper-7 first air transportation means 7 8 temporary storage hopper-9 temporary storage hopper-10 temporary storage hopper- 11 Weighing and Sending Means 12 Weighing and Sending Means 13 Weighing and Sending Means 14 Branching Means 15 Dividing Means 37 Second Air Transport Means 37 38 Automatic Control Device 38

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A first air transportation means for taking out the artificial blended feed from a feed storage hopper in which a powdered or granular artificial blended feed is charged and stored and pneumatically transporting the artificial blended feed to a feed popper, and the feed. A metering and feeding means for measuring a predetermined amount of the artificial mixed feed stored in the hopper and sending it to the temporary storage hopper, and the artificial mixed feed stored in the temporary storage hopper into the fish tank arbitrarily selected by the branching means. A compound feed feeding device comprising a second pneumatic transportation means for pneumatic transportation and an automatic control device for controlling each of these means.