Livestock feed conveyor including provision for multiple feeder bunks
US4593651A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 9, 1984 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 9, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA01K5/0208
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Disclosed is a feed conveyor for receiving feed and depositing it into a feeder bunk. It includes a hopper for receiving feed and depositing it upon a motor-run belt conveyor. Disposed between the upper or load-carrying flight and the lower or return flight of the conveyor belt are pulleys over which is reeved a cable, rope or chain in a horizontal plane, that is, each cable flight is located laterally with respect to the opposite flight. These pulleys are run by a drive taken from the same motor as that driving the belt of the conveyor via pulleys which transfer the plane of the drive belt from the vertical to the horizontal. The cable joined into a continuous loop by a cable clamp having holes drilled in one face thereof for insertion of the cable ends and a concave semi-cylindrical depression formed in the same face so as to match closely the radius of the pulleys driving the cable. Pivotably attached to this cable clamp is a trolley which a caused to slide back and forth along the length of the conveyor frame just beneath the conveyor belt. In one embodiment the plow is fixed at a particular angle via pegs which fit in holes in the trolley, and the plow can be switched manually…
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