RU2269260C1 - "ad lib" feeder machine - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agricultural engineering.

SUBSTANCE: "ad lib" feeder machine has trough fixed on vertical poles with dividing grids including dividing arcs and covers. Trough bottom is composed of two metal sheets pivotally fixed to trough outer edges for defining two-slope roof.

EFFECT: wider operational capabilities of feeder.

2 cl, 4 dwg

Description

The invention relates to agriculture, in particular to mobile feeders, and can be used for the distribution of roughage for farm animals.

State of the art

Known mobile trailed self-feeding. A grill is built into the bottom of the body of a conventional large-capacity trailed carriage, through which cattle can eat silage, freshly cut grass, hay (see B. Runov, Fundamentals of Industrial Cattle Fattening in the USA and Canada. - M .: Kolos, 1971, p. 250 -251).

The disadvantage of this self-feeder is its unsuitability for roll technology, since the rolls will need to be unwound or crushed beforehand.

A well-known mobile self-feeding trough, consisting of a platform, resting on the front rotary and rear rigid axles with the support wheels of a removable trellised body with lateral aft lattices tilting to the outside and opening upward arcuate frameworks of roof sections with tent cover (see Mansurov, A.A. Mechanized distribution of hay in bales and rolls // Feed production, 1994. M., p. 42-45).

The disadvantages of this model are complexity, high cost, low operational reliability.

The closest in technical essence and the achieved positive effect and accepted by the authors for the prototype is a self-feeder, which is a welded metal structure consisting of vertical posts, bottom (trough), roof and gratings, including dividing arcs. Such a self-feeding trough is used for feeding loose or rolled hay to various age groups of cattle (see utility model patent No. 34311 Ryzhkov, L.A. Kapustin I.V. Maliev V.Kh.).

The disadvantage is that when feeding loose hay to some types of farm animals (e.g. sheep), dead zones are formed, i.e. sections in the center of the feeder, to which the animal cannot reach, and the inability to fix the animals during the sanitary-veterinary service of animals.

Disclosure of invention

The technical result that can be achieved using the present invention is to ensure the versatility of the self-feeding machine with reference to not only different age groups of cattle, but also to different types of farm animals by adjusting the main parameters and fixing the animals.

The technical result is achieved by the fact that in a self-feeding machine-machine containing a trough, mounted on vertical racks with dividing grids, including dividing arches and roofs, the bottom of the trough is made of two metal sheets pivotally fixed to the outer edges of the trough with the possibility of the formation of a gable roof.

The self-feeding machine is equipped with drop-down stoppers.

The essence of the invention is as follows. The bottom of the trough 1 of the self-feeder is made of two sheets 2, movably fixed along the outer edges to the sides of the trough 1. A cable 9 is attached to the sheet 2 located below, which through blocks 10 is connected to the lever 8 mounted on the basis of the dividing arcs 5. To the vertical posts 4, the clamps-limiters 11 are movably fixed, which allow fixing the animals 12 while eating feed 13, for carrying out sanitary and veterinary measures or (in relation to sheep) to prevent the entry of animals into the self-feeding machine.

Brief Description of the Drawings

Figure 1 shows a General view of the self-feeding machine.

Figure 2 is the same side view for cattle.

Figure 3 is the same side view for the sheep.

Not fig 4 - the same, front view, fixing animals.

The implementation of the invention

A trough 1 is attached to the uprights 4, the bottom of which consists of two sheets 2 pivotally attached to the outer edges of the trough 1. From the bottom to the trough 1, transverse crossbars 3 are fastened, on which the sheets 2 are supported, in a horizontal position. The bases 5 of the dividing arches 6, the roof 7, the lowering clamps-limiters 11 for fixing the animals 12 when eating feed 13 are also attached to the uprights 4. To the base 5, in turn, the dividing arcs 6 and the lever 8 are attached. A cable 9 is attached to it passes through blocks 10, is attached to the bottom sheet 2.

Self-feeding machine operates as follows.

Before starting operation, the sheets 2 of the trough 1 are stacked in a horizontal position on the transverse rails 3, lifting the lever 8 up. After that, the self-feeding machine is loaded. As the feed 13 is consumed by animals 12, near the dividing arcs 6, the lever 8 is lowered down, which carries the cable 9 connected to it, passing through the blocks 10, thereby raising the middle part of the sheets 2. Thus, the bottom of the trough 1 takes the form of a gable roof, on inclined the surfaces of which the feed moves to the edges of the trough 1, thereby eliminating the formation of dead zones, and animals 12 almost completely eat the feed 13.

Also in the feeding process, when the animal’s head 12 is inside the machine’s self-feeder between the dividing arches 6, the animal can be fixed for sanitary and veterinary measures. lowering down the vertical racks 4 clamps-limiters 11. They also do not allow animals 12 to get inside the self-feeding machine, which will make it possible to apply it to small livestock (sheep, goats).

The invention in comparison with the prototype and other known technical solutions has the following advantages:

- the versatility of the self-feeding machine is that it can be applied not only to various types and age groups of farm animals, but also for feeding animals not only rolled, pressed hay, but also loose hay and even haylage;

- the possibility of fixing animals for sanitary and veterinary activities.

Claims (2)

1. The self-feeder-machine contains a trough mounted on vertical racks with dividing grids, including dividing arcs and roofs, characterized in that the bottom of the trough is made of two metal sheets hinged on the outer edges of the trough, with the possibility of the formation of a gable roof. 2. Self-feeding machine according to claim 1, characterized in that there are retainer-limiters.

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