Patent ID: 7204200
Filing Date: 2007-04-17
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A utility car for maintenance of a livestock environment and comprising a container compartment supported on wheels, a motor drive for displacing said car, a control station for controlling the operation of said car, a front-end loading bucket for loading feed/hay into said container compartment, said container compartment having a discharge trough with discharge means, conveying means for feeding feed/hay from said container compartment into said discharge trough, said front end loading bucket having a pivotal rear gate in an upper end section of a rear wall of said loading bucket for guidingly discharging feed/hay from said loading bucket into an open top end of said container compartment from an open top section of a front wall of said container compartment and closing said open top section when said loading bucket is at a discharge position, said discharge trough having a discharge opening on a side of said container compartment and a material directional ejector displaceably secured to said dispensing car and displaceable from a storage position to an ejecting position at said discharge opening, said ejector being defined by an ejector housing having a bottom wall and a curved directional side wall having an ejector opening therein and a passage in communication with said discharge opening, a rotating propeller having blades secured to a central driven shaft in a spaced apart configuration with said blades closely spaced above said bottom wall whereby to displace feed/hay material at high speed from said discharge opening to said ejector opening, said curved directional side wall has an outwardly directing section extending in a tangential direction beyond said housing bottom wall adjacent said ejector opening to produce a guided material ejection flow.