GROUP SELF-FILLING DRINKER Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC A01K7/04 

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: self-filling drinker comprises a frame with a drinking bowl in it, a cover with watering cups, a feeding pipe with a valve-and-float mechanism and a heating unit. The drinking bowl and water heater are connected to each other by horizontal branch pipes aligned with respect to the watering cups; perforated branch pipes are mounted in the middle part of the drinking bowl. The perforated branch pipes are inclined at an angle ϕ 3°...10° to the vertical axis of the feeding pipe and are vertically perforated with the holes being sloped at an angle α 40°...60° to the axis of the branch pipe in the drinking bowl.

EFFECT: increasing water circulation speed and temperature of the water heating when water is drunk by animals.

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