A paintball feeding apparatus includes a paintball reservoir, and a housing mounted under the paintball reservoir with an inlet opening communicating with the paintball reservoir such that paintballs can move from the paintball reservoir though the inlet opening. The housing defines an outlet opening at a front end thereof adapted to be connected to a paintball gun feed tube. An auger is rotatably mounted in the housing such that pockets are formed between the auger flights, the pockets configur...

A bird feeder includes a food container including one or more feeding ports adapted to allow birds access into the food container, and a separate perch located relative to each feeding port to enable a bird perched thereon to access a respective feeding port, wherein each separate perch is adjustable relative to its respective feeding port to attract different sized birds.

A cottonseed feeder wherein the dispensing means for dispensing the feed from the hopper comprises a feed chamber having an entry-opening and an exit-opening, the entry-opening in communication with the lower opening of a feed hopper, an entry-opening shutter adjacent the entry-opening, said entry-opening shutter moveable between a first position where the entry-opening shutter blocks the entry-opening and a second free position where feed may flow into the feed chamber, an exit-opening shutter ...

The feeder apparatus including a chamber formed of at least one upstanding wall, a water outlet in the wall, a drain in the wall, the chamber having a bottom, inlets for water jets in the bottom for creating turbulence inside the chamber to create particle suspension and/or to increase chemicals solubility, or a perforated plate inside of the chamber and spaced from the bottom of the chamber to permit water to flow underneath and up through perforations in the plate and into the chamber.

A bird feeder having an upstanding circular housing with a pivotally mounted cover movable between a closed position and a raised position. A latch assembly is included which operates to release the cover for raising and locking the cover in closed position. A feed assembly is provided which includes a perch adjustable laterally of a feed opening. The position of the perch relative opening allows the feeder to restrict the size of the bird being fed.

A semi-active retard feeder employs a hysteresis clutch to provide the resisting torque to a retard roll. A low cost Hall Effect sensor is added to the clutch assembly to provide a feedback signal during the feeding cycle in order to detect the onset of degraded feeding performance. This signal can be used to instruct a user to order and replace the retard roll.

A medicine feeder is composed of: a cassette (2) for housing medicines D in an array; a biasing member (6) for biasing the medicines D in the cassette (2) toward one end side; and a discharge member (16) disposed on one end portion of the cassette (2) for holding a medicine D in a holding recess portion (18) and discharging the medicines D one at a time by rotating the discharge member. This makes it possible to ensure the discharge of a prescribed quantity of medicines based on prescription dat...

A sheet feeder includes; a sheet feed roller that abuts against a topmost sheet of stacked sheets and rotates to convey the topmost sheet in a conveyance direction; an arm spanning across a drive shaft and the sheet feed roller; a rotating transmission member that transmits rotation of the drive shaft to the sheet feed roller, wherein the arm is provided with a cantilever shaft that supports the rotating transmission member, and an elastic member that faces an end face of the rotating transmissi...

The forward movement of a feed rod 15 of a nut feeder permits pressurization of air in an air chamber 3a defined in a rod holder 3, thereby blowing the air out of the air outlet 20 through an air inlet 21 and an air passage 22. A nut 7 is held on the feed rod 15 by the pressure of the air blow from the air outlet 20.

A tape feeder including an electronic component accommodating part installed at one side of a tape feeder main body to accommodate electronic components which are not picked up by a suction nozzle of an electronic component conveyance robot installed at an electronic component mounting device, thereby preventing the electronic components from clogging a carrier tape moving path, and storing the electronic components in the electronic component accommodating part. Therefore, it is possible to inc...