[Individual self-feeder for pigs]
2003
Kuzmich, Ya.A. | Deshko, V.I. | Tkach, V.V. | Zelinsky, V.M. | Hukova, H.L.
An individual self-feeder for pigs contains a hopper for combined feeds with a loading opening and a unloading one equipped with a dosed feed dispensing device with a mechanism of controlling the feed dispensing (by an animal itself), and a trough. The self-feeder is equipped with a container for water with a nippel self-filling drinker. The dosed feed dispensing device is made as a tube cup, which is fixed to the unloading opening of the hopper with its upper end, in the middle of which a sliding bushing with pivot valves, equipped with mechanisms controlling their position, is placed. The upper end of the bushing is connected with the mechanism of adjusting thereof by height. The cup is provided with a restraining arm of the sliding bushing and a flat sliding shutter with a dosing opening and its restraining arms. Along the height of the tube cup a scale is fixed with an indicator of setting the rates of feed dispensing
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