Patent ID: 11937585
Assignee: SINGER EQUITIES, INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 15:
16. A method for rapidly dispensing feed into a feed station, the method comprising:
disposing bulk feed into a feed bin coupled to a top surface of a motorized vehicle;
drawing a first dose of feed up from the feed bin with an auger, where the first dose of feed contains a first predetermined amount of feed;
guiding the first dose of feed from the auger into and through a first chute, a rotational joint, and a pre-loading chute and into a pre-loading chamber with the pre-loading chute being in fluid communication with and rotably connected to the pre-loading chute by the rotational joint and the feed pre-loading chamber disposed below or at a bottom of the pre-loading chute and a lower end of the pre-loading chamber being connected to and closed by a gate;
actuating a gate valve operatively connected to the gate and configured to move the gate to open the lower end of the pre-loading chamber and dump the first dose of feed from the pre-loading chamber;
directing the dumped first dose of feed to the feed station through a discharge chute being in fluid communication with and positioned below the gate valve and the pre-loading chute, the pre-loading chamber, the valve, and the discharge chute being rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the first chute from a first side to an opposite side of the apparatus, the discharge chute configured to be manually controlled by a user with the user in a driver seat of the motorized vehicle;
closing the gate;
drawing a second dose of feed up from the feed bin with the auger, where the second dose of feed contains a second predetermined amount of feed; and
guiding the second dose of feed from the auger into and through the first chute, the rotational joint, and the pre-loading chute and into the pre-loading chamber with the lower end closed by the gate.