Patent ID: 7228817

Claim:
A device for the feeding of free-range poultry kept in a coop with at least one feed delivery pipe held above a floor of the coop and capable of being raised and lowered, the pipe having at least one aperture, comprising: a bowl device configured to be suspended on the feed delivery pipe, the bowl device including a feed bowl located beneath a downpipe, the bowl device further including a cupola formed from grid bars in spoke fashion, wherein the downpipe comprises an inner cylinder configured to depart from the aperture and an outer cylinder encompassing the inner cylinder, on which the bowl is suspended by the grid bars of the bowl cupola in such a way that, when the feed delivery pipe is lowered, the bowl comes to rest on the floor of the coop, wherein the outer cylinder is guided in a rotatable manner as well as in a raisable and lowerable manner on the inner cylinder, and at least one lifting stop is provided for delimiting a lifting and lowering path of the bowl; wherein the outer cylinder is comprised of adjacent outer cylinder sections co-axial to each other, whereby outer face peripheral areas of the outer cylinder sections turned towards each other are connected to one another by outer bridging elements which bridge an outer gap area, which corresponds to an outer interval distance between the outer cylinder sections; and wherein the inner cylinder is comprised of adjacent inner cylinder sections co-axial to each other, whereby inner face peripheral areas of the inner cylinder sections turned towards each other are connected to one another by inner bridging elements which bridge an inner gap area, which corresponds to an inner interval distance between the inner cylinder sections.