Patent EA-004606-B1 (EA)
Title: Feed distribution system for poultry
Inventor: DE ROUCK DANNY
IPC: A01K39/01
Filed: 2001-11-15
Abstract: 1. Feed dispenser for feeding poultry, comprising a dispenser tray (22) and guide means (21) for guiding feed from a horizontal feed conveyor pipe (14) to the dispenser tray (22), in which the dispenser tray (22) is a non-circular shape, characterized in that the dispenser tray (22) has a circumferential edge (27) with first edge areas (51) which have a relatively large radius of curvature and second edge areas (52) which have a relatively small radius of curvature. 2. Feed dispenser according to claim 1, in which the dispenser tray (22) is an elongate shape. 3. Feed dispenser according to claim 2, in which the dispenser tray (22) is an elliptical shape. 4. Feed dispenser according to claim 1 or 2, in which the dispenser tray is substantially a curved triangular shape, preferably with threefold rotational symmetry. 5. Feed dispenser according to one of the preceding claims, in which the guide means comprise a down pipe (21) with a bottom end edge (21C) of a non-circular shape, said bottom end edge (21C) having first edge areas with a relatively large radius of curvature and second edge areas with a relatively small radius of curvature. 6. Feed dispenser according to claim 5, in which said bottom end edge (21C) is an elliptical shape. 7. Feed dispenser according to claim 5, in which the bottom end edge is substantially a curved triangular shape, preferably with threefold rotational symmetry. 8. Feed dispenser according to one of claims 5-7, in which the bottom end edge (21C) of the down pipe (21) is substantially the same shape as the dispenser tray (22). 9. Feed dispenser according to claim 8, in which the horizontal distance between the bottom end edge (21C) of the down pipe (21) and the edge (27) of the dispenser tray (22) is substantially the same over the entire circumference of the dispenser tray (22). 10. Feed distribution system (10), comprising at least one substantially horizontal feed conveyor pipe (14) and a number of feed dispensers (20) attached with mutual spacing to said feed conveyor pipe (14), according to one of claims 1-9. 11. Feed distribution system according to claim 10, in which the feed dispensers (20) have a longitudinal axis (43) which forms an angle greater than zero with the longitudinal direction of the feed conveyor pipe (14) concerned. 12. Feed distribution system according to claim 10 or 11, in which the feed dispensers have a plane of symmetry (63) which forms an angle greater than zero with the longitudinal direction of the feed conveyor pipe (14) concerned. 13. Feed distribution system according to claim 11 or 12, in which said angle is substantially equal to 90. 14. Feed distribution system according to one of claims 10-13, in which the orientation of successive dispenser trays (22) is alternating. 15. Feed distribution system according to one of the preceding claims 10-14, in which the transversal distance of a corner point (62X) of a dispenser tray (22) from a vertical plane (70) through the conveyor pipe (14) is shorter than the transversal distance of the opposite edge part (61X) from said plane (70).