Patent ID: 6685029
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: A01K,B07B

Abstract:
A tool designed for separating manure, loose hay and wet bedding from a stall of an animal, comprising a rectangular frame supporting a plurality of spaced parallel rods and a pair of parallel side members, the rods being adapted to extend downwardly at an angle from a wall of the stall, the rods having lower ends adapted to extend into a receiver, whereby, when refuse is tossed from a floor of the stall onto the rods, manure, loose hay and soiled or wet bedding will flow down the rods into the receiver, while reusable bedding will pass between the rods for later reuse, the side members being bent adjacent a lower end of the frame to form a pair of inwardly converging members, wherein the tool is provided with an adapter at a lower end thereof mating with the converging members, the adapter having a portion extending at right angles thereto for further assisting in engagement with a rim of a receiver, the adapter extending into the receiver whereby manure, loose hay and soiled or wet bedding will flow down the gate over the adaptor and into the receiver, the converging members funneling material into the receiver.