PIG FEEDING UNIT Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: pig-breeding. SUBSTANCE: feeding unit includes disk with stops for free rotation in horizontal plane around axle resting against bottom of housing in its center. Housing is provided with vertical uprights and horizontal beam articulated on these uprights. Cylindrical fodder passage is arranged above bottom at spaced relation; gap above disk is adjustable. Rigidly secured to center of disk is agitator which is rotatable inside fodder passage. Over periphery, bottom of housing is provided with circular passage with drinking bowl where scraper is located which is rigidly secured to feeding site. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 2 cl, 2 dwg