Patent ID: 6305320
Filing Date: 2001-10-23
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A game feeder support assembly for supporting a game feeder, said game feeder support assembly comprising:a vertical support pole having an auger pole portion and a ground insertion portion; anda feeder support assembly including a means for supporting a game feeder in rigid connection with an auger pole nut assembly;said auger pole portion having an auger flight secured helically around and extending outwardly from an auger pole portion shaft;said auger pole nut assembly including an auger pole portion passageway formed entirely therethrough between a bottom nut opening and a top nut opening and into which multiple rollers extend in a pattern such that said multiple rollers engage different sections of said auger flight simultaneously such that as said auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a first rotational direction, while mounted on said auger pole portion, said auger pole nut assembly travels in a first direction toward a top end of said auger pole portion and as said auger pole nut assembly is rotated in a second rotational direction, opposite said first rotational direction, while mounted on said auger pole portion, said auger pole nut assembly travels in a second direction toward a bottom end of said auger pole section;said auger pole nut assembly including a means for locking said auger pole nut assembly in fixed relation to said auger pole portion;said locking means having a user releasing mechanism for allowing a user to rotate said auger pole nut assembly to raise or lower a game feeder supported on said feeder support structure means.