FEED MIXER-AND-DISTRIBUTOR Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: agricultural engineering; equipment of stock rearing farms and complexes. SUBSTANCE: feed mixer-and-distributor has hopper with parallel mixing augers arranged along hopper at its side walls, and discharge auger in bottom of hopper. Discharge auger has opposite hand of helix. Discharge port with shutters is made in one of side walls of hopper. Discharge auger section located in discharge port zone has special-shape blades installed on shaft along screw line on front wall of which knives are secured at front and rear edges by means of bolts. Two knives are installed on upper edge. Each knife installed in upper edge is two-fold shorter than knife installed at front edge. Blades are secured at angle of 40-50 degrees to radial plane of cross-section of shaft. Indicated section of discharge auger is made with length equal to 1/5-1/6 of length of this auger and is arranged at a distance from front wall of hopper exceeding diameter of auger helix. bracket-angle is secured on rear wall of blade. Knife is made in form of rectangle whose longer sides are sharp, angle of sharping being equal to 60 degrees. One angle of knife projects beyond blade edges. Knives installed on upper edge of blade are replaceable. EFFECT: reduced power consumption, enhanced quality of feed mixing. 7 cl, 9 dwg