Patent ID: 7966976
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A livestock management system, comprising: a feeding area; a watering area; a one-way gate for allowing animals to pass from said feeding area into said watering area; a first passage for allowing animals to pass from said watering area into said feeding area; a safety bypass gate having a closed position and an open position for allowing animals to pass through a second passage between the watering area and the feeding area, said safety bypass gate being separate from said one-way gate; whereby said gate moves from said closed position to said open position to provide an emergency exit through said second passage when said first passage becomes blocked; said safety by pass gate includes a pair of pivoting gate members and a channel member having opposing surfaces that fits over top edges of said gate members to secure the gate in said closed position, said opposing surfaces of said channel member directly engages a front and a back side of the pair of gate members when in said closed position; said safety bypass gate having a first and a second gate hinge spring that respectively biases said gate members from their closed position to their open position when said channel member moves to a raised unlocked position; said channel member attached to a vertically positioned cylinder rod of a pneumatic actuator and said cylinder rod holds said channel member in its lowered locked position, a return spring in said pneumatic actuator retracts said cylinder rod to move said channel member to its raised unlocked position upon a drop in air pressure.