LOOSE FEED METER Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: mechanical equipment for cattle production; production and distribution of loose feed mixtures. SUBSTANCE: proposed device has can mounted vertically and telescopic skirt rigidly secured on lower part of skirt and disk located below and coaxially relative to it. Dampers mounted inside can divide its interior into sectors. Feed meter is provided with several scrapers; each scraper is provided with tail-piece located under skirt; height of tail- pieces is lesser than height of sections of scrapers located on the outside of skirt; radial straight lines of disk drawn through ends of one tail-pieces pass through points of intersection of adjacent scrapers with edge of disk; scrapers are formed over curve: radial straight line of disk and tangent to curve drawn to each point of this curve form acute angle which exceeds friction angle between feed and scraper. Hollow drive shaft forms funnel neck whose mouth embraces disk at radial clearance; scrapers are secured on funnel mouth and disk is secured on can. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 2 cl, 3 dwg