RU2013050C1 - Drinking installation for farm animals - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: animal husbandry. SUBSTANCE: installation comprises platform slightly inclined towards accumulating reservoir, wind motor, water lift consisting of a bucket hanging on a cable reeved over a sheave wound on the large-diameter section of a drum, the other part of the cable passing over another sheave and secured to platform crosspiece. There is a trough. The platform is suspended from a cable with counterweight. The service reservoir is positioned above the troughs and communicates with external coil. The reservoir has a water filter. The platform is fenced off by panels. The entire installation is provided with a snow depot having a hinged roof. Condensation area adjoins the platform. EFFECT: energy and funds saved by using precipitation water and atmospheric condensate. 2 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to animal husbandry, and in particular to devices for drinking sheep, pigs, cattle, and can be used as a source of drinking water in arid regions.

 There are group cattle drinkers containing a water source, a storage tank, water distribution control devices, troughs and other details that automate the process of watering animals.

 They differ from each other in insignificant details and require a special permanent source of water supply.

 Known group drinker, which contains a source of water, a storage tank, a means of water supply and other characteristic details, but the source of water in it is a permanent water supply device (water supply, river or the like). Therefore, the disadvantage is that it cannot be used in areas where there is no constant flow of water.

 The aim of the invention is energy and capital saving through the use of precipitation water and atmospheric condensate, and not having natural sources of water, water supply and developed energy supply.

 This goal is achieved by constructing a site with a snow depot, a snow-holding fence, a water storage tank with a water-mixing pump driven by a wind turbine, as well as a device for condensation of atmospheric moisture and setting in motion a water-lifting device due to the weight of the animals being served.

 In FIG. 1 shows a construction for drinking agricultural animals, section; in FIG. 2 is a construction plan with respect to a wind rose.

 The structure for drinking agricultural animals contains a platform 1 with a slight slope of the surface to the storage tank 2 (see Fig. 1), a wind turbine 3 used to mix the water in the tank 2, a water-lifting device, consisting of a bucket 4, with a valve for immersion into the water and suspended on a cable 5 passing through the block 6 and wound on a section of the drum 7 having a larger diameter, while the part of the cable 5 wound on the section of the smaller diameter of the drum 7 and passing through the block 8 is fixed on the crosshead of the platform 9.

 A trough 10 is located on the platform 9. The platform 9 itself is suspended on a cable 11, is held by a counterweight 12, can lower to a depth of about two, three meters and lock in the upper and lower positions (the latches in Fig. 1 are not shown). The supply tank 13 is located so that at the upper position of the platform 9 it is possible to fill the trough 10 with water from it. The second trough 10 can be located outside the platform 9 and in the drinking room to increase the throughput of the structure, and the tank 13 can have an external coil connected to it 14 (Fig. 2) for heating water in the cold season. The roof above the coil 14 must have a greenhouse design for the use of solar heating.

 The platform 1 has a water-bearing surface for the overflow of rainfall into the storage tank 2 having a water filter 15.

 From the sides of the prevailing winter winds, site 1 is fenced with rotary double-leaf shields 16 (see Fig. 2), which are used for snow retention. Adjacent to the structure of the drinking bowl and reservoir 2, there is a snow depot 17 - a snow storage area, over which a hinged roof 18 with a solar slope of a greenhouse structure can be located (to accelerate snow melting).

 On the fourth side, a condensation ground 19 is adjacent to platform 1, operating in the dry summertime and covered with pyramids laid out of clean rubble stone or cobblestones of small size and irregular shape with the formation of numerous cracks in the pyramid for air passage. Since ancient times, pyramids have been used to irrigate vineyards.

 The construction works as follows.

 In winter, the shields 16 are opened on the leeward side and closed on the leeward side, due to which snow retention is performed. Periodically, the snow moves (with bulldozers) and compacts in depot 17. Site 1 and landfill 19 have a slight bias towards reservoir 2, so that water from melted snow, rain and condensate enters hidden and open wiring into accumulation tank 2, passing through filter 15, and undergoes improvement there with special additives and periodic mixing (during the wind), which saves it from stagnation and damage. Consider the process of drinking, for example, sheep. A group of sheep (several dozen) is launched on platform 9 and begins to drink water from trough 10. At the same time, the shepherd removes the stopper, and platform 9 slowly falls down under the weight of the sheep, raising the bucket 4 in the upper position, from where the water then overflows into the supply tank 13. At the end of the watering, the sheep are driven out of the platform 9 along an inclined ramp to the surface, and the platform is again released from the stopper and, under the influence of the counterweight 12, returns to its original position, moving the tub 4 to the lower position for filling with water. The trough 10 is again replenished with water from the tank 13, and the process is repeated. In the case of excess raised water, the bucket 4 does not completely empty.

 Unlike the prototype, the proposed structure contains a site fenced with double-leaf shields, a snow depot, a device for mixing water in a storage tank, driven by a wind turbine, a solar slope of the roof of a greenhouse structure, a water-lifting device, driven by the weight of the animals being served, a water condensation test site from atmospheric air.

 Proof of the materiality of the differences.

In the technical and patent literature, as well as in economic practice, at present, the listed differences from the prototype in watering facilities are not found and are not applied. However, they make it possible to provide watering of agricultural animals in arid and low-energy areas, as they allow the use of wind, solar and animal weights, and accumulate water from precipitation and atmospheric air. According to rough calculations, a 2500 m ² site equipped according to the invention allows a year-round watering place for flocks of 3-4 thousand sheep in areas with an annual rainfall not exceeding 400 mm

Claims (1)

 AGRICULTURE FOR WATERING AGRICULTURAL ANIMALS, containing a platform, a storage tank, a water filter, a water-lifting device, a supply tank and troughs, characterized in that, in order to reduce material costs and energy by using water from atmospheric precipitation, wind energy, sun and animal weight, a platform equipped with stationary flaps for retaining snow, its surface is made of water, has a section for condensation of atmospheric water vapor and ditch-like water conduits, a water pump with engine, and the lifting device is made in the form of a drum with sections of different diameters for winding the cables that are connected to them, and a platform that is movable in the vertical direction under the influence of the weight of the animals, while the structure is equipped with a device for solar heating of water having a coil connected to a consumable a reservoir, and the platform is made with a plot for snow having a greenhouse type roof, under which the said coil is located.

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