WO1989008388A1 - Improved animal feeder - Google Patents

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WO1989008388A1
WO1989008388A1 PCT/GB1989/000261 GB8900261W WO8908388A1 WO 1989008388 A1 WO1989008388 A1 WO 1989008388A1 GB 8900261 W GB8900261 W GB 8900261W WO 8908388 A1 WO8908388 A1 WO 8908388A1
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water
hopper
drinker
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Simon Guy Cubitt Smith
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Simon Guy Cubitt Smith
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/02—Automatic devices
    • A01K5/0225—Gravity replenishment from a reserve, e.g. a hopper
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/02—Automatic devices
    • A01K5/0216—Automatic devices for the distribution of liquid fodder

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  • These preferred embodiments will include a feed tray and a trough, whereby to form an integral self-contained unit; though I do not exclude that the (dedicated) reservoir for each feeder may be kept topped up from a plumbed-in (piped) water supply.
  • a piglet In operating or playing with the drinker a piglet will usually also nuzzle into the meal on the feed tray, and they can then lick the meal off their snout with their (wettened) tongue, and ingest; alternatively, water released from the drinker can drip into the trough to wetten meal which has dropped from the solids feed tray, and make that meal easier to " eat. Because the nipple or spray water drinker is below the feed tray, meal adjacent the mouth of the hopper is unlikely to become wetted so that the danger of wetted meal bridging the hopper mouth to restrict the flow of replenishment meal is minimised.
  • Fig.6 is a side (sectional) view of another feed hopper
  • Fig.7 is a side (sectional) view of yet another feed hopper
  • the trough 8 is generally of " ⁇ " section, with a rearwardly sloping front trough wall 30 and a forwardly sloping rear trough wall 32, the trough walls 30,32 being connected by a flat trough base 34.
  • Front trough wall 30 has a rearwardly extending lip 31 to limit unwanted removal and wastage of meal. In the normal position of use of the feeder, the rear edge of lip 31 is located in front of the front edge 5 of tray 4, so that meal spilling from edge 5 will be caught in trough 8.
  • tray 4 has its front edge 5 extended upwardly by a lip 5a, to reduce the spillage off the front edge of the tray.
  • trough wall 30 is below (as seen in these Figures) the front edge of front wall 20; in the embodiment of Fig.3, trough wall 30 is forward of the front edge of front wall 20, making it less likely that larger pigs will butt and damage front wall 20.
  • the solids feed hopper can be formed as a hollow mould, of plastics material such as high density polyethylene.
  • the front wall 120 is formed as a pivoted flap by vertical cuts 121a,121b and a horizontal cut 123; the front wall is angled rearwardly and is secured at its (cut) side edges to hopper side walls 125a,125b, in one embodiment by heat welding, and in another embodiment by being bolted using two pieces of angled metal bolted to the respective side edges and to the adjacent side wall.
  • At least one of the hopper and the water reservoir are translucent so that the contents level is visible through the container wall; and the water reservoir can be in one of a number of self-coloured materials so that the contents e.g. medicated water are readily ascertained.
  • the feeds hopper of Fig.8 can be used.
  • the rearwardly sloping wall is formed as in the embodiment of Figs 4/5, but the sub-assembly 100 now includes a modified nipple water drinker 140.
  • the water drinker 140 has one (inlet) end outside the moulded solids feed hopper and this end includes a connector 141 (defining the water inlet) which is adapted to be directly and releasably coupled to a low pressure supply pipe, so that this solids feed hopper can if desired be used as a direct replacement for a solids feed hopper in an existing (prior art) system; it will be understood that in an alternative embodiment, the inlet end can sealingly fit into an orifice in an associated water reservoir, and it will be further understood that this water drinker 140 can if desired be used in the embodiment of Fig 6 and the embodiment of Fig.7.
  • the vertical (as seen in Fig.
  • the solids feed hopper has a pair of integral, rearwardly extending fingers 150 which can resiliently separate to admit, and then re-approach to grip, the water reservoir.
  • dedicated water reservoir 10 is automatically kept topped up with water through piping connected to a cistern, the water flow into the dedicated reservoir being controlled by a ball cock in the water reservoir; the reservoir 10 could additionally or alternatively be connected to a remote feed reservoir e.g. for skimmed milk or whey, which could be mixed in water reservoir 10 to the prescribed concentration.
  • a remote feed reservoir e.g. for skimmed milk or whey, which could be mixed in water reservoir 10 to the prescribed concentration.
  • the volume of the water reservoir should preferably be at least equal to that of the effective volume of the solids feed hopper; more satisfactory for self-contained feeders without a plumbed in water connection to the reservoir (since it reguires fewer manual water top-ups) is to use a water reservoir with a volume up to five times that of the effective volume of the feed hopper.
  • the height of surface 33 is 125mm, and that of the side wings 35 is 225mm, with the surface 33 having a length of 100mm (so that a pig can cradle his neck with surfaces 33,35 whilst feeding), and the base a length of 300mm.
  • an ad lib food and water feeder suitable for all sizes of pigs, and for other animals; thus for calves I would use a spray drinker, typically operated when the calf depressed a resiliently biassed button, with the calf left to play with the drinker in an individual stall for 30 minutes or so, the reservoir including warmed milk to encourage the calf to drink and thereby stimulate the uptake of solids to prepare the calf to be more self reliant when feeding after weaning.
  • the individual feeder I now propose with its associated "buffer" reservoir, with one feeder for each stall, permits individual feeding and attention. Medicants can be given even to piglets, through the water rather than the feed.
  • My feeder will preferably be the sole supply of liquids to the pigs when pellets are fed, to limit waste from uneaten pellets dropped on the way to any supplementary drinker; if mash is fed, some farmers may wish to provide an additional drinker, but I have found that the dryness of the mash encourages immediate drinking from the associated water drinker.

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EP0464343A1 (de) * 1990-07-05 1992-01-08 ERICH OSTERMEIER STALLEINRICHTUNG GmbH Futterspendeautomat zur Tierfütterung
US5094187A (en) * 1988-03-29 1992-03-10 King Systems, Inc Animal feeder with adjustable gate
EP0664951A1 (de) * 1994-01-28 1995-08-02 Breedveld Trading Futtertrog
WO1996022680A1 (en) * 1995-01-27 1996-08-01 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Adjustable feeder for animals
US5570656A (en) * 1995-04-04 1996-11-05 King Systems, Incorporated Animal feeder with locking adjustable gate
US5640926A (en) * 1995-01-27 1997-06-24 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Feeder for animals with height adjustment for controlling feed discharge
US6484665B1 (en) * 2001-07-27 2002-11-26 Birdcare Inventions, L.L.C. Reduced compression gravity-feed clean food-recycling system with manicuring perch for a bird feeder
US20160007563A1 (en) * 2014-07-14 2016-01-14 Dean Allen Swager Combination system for feeding and watering livestock
GB2573541A (en) * 2018-05-09 2019-11-13 Rattlerow Farms Ltd Livestock feeder

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GB805211A (en) * 1956-09-04 1958-12-03 Gerard Desire Kluysse Improvements in or relating to animal feeding devices
US3782332A (en) * 1972-09-18 1974-01-01 F Depenthal Automatic feeding device
GB1429661A (en) * 1973-02-17 1976-03-24 Harvey J A Apparatus for dispensing food and liquids to animals
US4131082A (en) * 1977-01-31 1978-12-26 Sollars Herbert M Animal feeding equipment
GB2056837A (en) * 1979-08-15 1981-03-25 Blicher S Method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of untethered animals
EP0206636A1 (de) * 1985-06-10 1986-12-30 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Fütterungseinrichtung für Tiere

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GB805211A (en) * 1956-09-04 1958-12-03 Gerard Desire Kluysse Improvements in or relating to animal feeding devices
US3782332A (en) * 1972-09-18 1974-01-01 F Depenthal Automatic feeding device
GB1429661A (en) * 1973-02-17 1976-03-24 Harvey J A Apparatus for dispensing food and liquids to animals
US4131082A (en) * 1977-01-31 1978-12-26 Sollars Herbert M Animal feeding equipment
GB2056837A (en) * 1979-08-15 1981-03-25 Blicher S Method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of untethered animals
EP0206636A1 (de) * 1985-06-10 1986-12-30 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Fütterungseinrichtung für Tiere

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5094187A (en) * 1988-03-29 1992-03-10 King Systems, Inc Animal feeder with adjustable gate
EP0464343A1 (de) * 1990-07-05 1992-01-08 ERICH OSTERMEIER STALLEINRICHTUNG GmbH Futterspendeautomat zur Tierfütterung
EP0664951A1 (de) * 1994-01-28 1995-08-02 Breedveld Trading Futtertrog
US5640926A (en) * 1995-01-27 1997-06-24 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Feeder for animals with height adjustment for controlling feed discharge
US5603285A (en) * 1995-01-27 1997-02-18 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Adjustable shelf feeder for animals to accommodate growth
WO1996022680A1 (en) * 1995-01-27 1996-08-01 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Adjustable feeder for animals
AU702745B2 (en) * 1995-01-27 1999-03-04 Crystal Spring Colony Farms Ltd. Adjustable feeder for animals
US5570656A (en) * 1995-04-04 1996-11-05 King Systems, Incorporated Animal feeder with locking adjustable gate
US6484665B1 (en) * 2001-07-27 2002-11-26 Birdcare Inventions, L.L.C. Reduced compression gravity-feed clean food-recycling system with manicuring perch for a bird feeder
US20160007563A1 (en) * 2014-07-14 2016-01-14 Dean Allen Swager Combination system for feeding and watering livestock
US10182552B2 (en) * 2014-07-14 2019-01-22 Dean Allen Swager Combination system for feeding and watering livestock
GB2573541A (en) * 2018-05-09 2019-11-13 Rattlerow Farms Ltd Livestock feeder
GB2573541B (en) * 2018-05-09 2021-11-03 Rattlerow Farms Ltd Livestock feeder

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