Apparatus for feeding livestock, provided with a housing having a head insertion opening via which the animals can take in the food, and comprising a dosing device for food supply to the housing and responsive to the presence of selected specimens of the animals. There are provided discharge means for food leavings from the housing, said discharge means becoming operative upon removal of the head of an animal from the head insertion opening, and inoperative in the presence of the head of an anim...

A modular, feeder system comprises a master module and at least one slave module adapted to be coupled together in tandem. Each of the modules comprises a food container within a housing, with a lid on the housing being spring biased open but maintained normally closed by a latch. The latch is tripped by a trip collar carried by a shaft extending through the housing. An end of each shaft is adapted to be longitudinally coupled to the shaft of an adjacent module. Only the master module contains a...

A floating feed device is adapted to be engaged by the top sheet in a rising stack and to feed the sheet downstream. The mount for the feed device is articulated, and the device includes a vacuum chamber and horizontal drive rollers. A narrow slot is formed between a guide roller of the feed device and a gate which is disposed in the plane of a stack back-up plate and which is vertically movable in said plane. A control is provided to maintain the same slot width, no matter what the articulated ...

An apparatus advances and registers web material relative to a cutting mechanism. The cutting mechanism cuts the web material transverse to the direction of material advance. The apparatus comprises a guide for guiding the web material to the cutting mechanism. A rotating cylinder is spaced from the cutting mechanism and adjacent the guide. Projecting elements are carried on the rotating cylinder and spaced circumferentially on the rotating cylinder a distance substantially equal to the distance...

A feeding device for controlled feeding of objects (R) from an inlet (9) to a outlet (11) by means of a feeding means consistituted by two cooperating feeding wheels (4,5). One of the feeding wheels (4) has a guiding groove (21), and the other feeding wheel (5) has two round belts (17a,17b) laid around the wheel, and stationary guide plates (26,27) preferably extend between the belts in the nip and merge with the inlet and/or the outlet.

A feeding device comprises a rotary drum (1) in the casing wall (2) of which narrow slots (3, 4) are provided, said slots serving as intakes for the material to be fed. Blade-like elements (5, 6) project from the outside of the casing wall and co-operate with said slots for the purpose of ripping and carrying along material upon rotating of the drum so as to introduce the material into the interior of the drum through the intake slots (3, 4). On the inside of the casing wall (2) flange members (...

A feeding railing for animals comprising a frame, a plurality of vertical spikes fastened to said frame and adapted to extend pairwise behind the animal's head on both sides of the neck and being spaced apart by a distance which is larger than the width of the neck and smaller than the width of the withers of the animal and comprising at least one wheel supporting the frame so as to be movable along the ground, comprising a frame which has connected with it a floor plate extending rearwardly ove...

A feeding device including a hopper with a discharge outlet therein including a movably mounted vertically extending hollow shaft disposed concentrically within the hopper having an inlet in fluid communication with an air supply. The hollow shaft further includes at its discharge end a nozzle adjacent to the hopper discharge outlet and movable upon movement of the hollow shaft. Transversely extending across the vertically extending hollow shaft is a horizontally extending member with a blade at...

A feeding device for use by persons with limited or no use of their arms, wherein a spoon is mounted on supporting and counterbalancing levers and is associated with a mouth-piece in such a manner that the user can manipulate the spoon to lift food from a dish, can then place the spoon on a fixed support and then adjust the spoon to a position for convenient eating of the food. The spoon mounting includes an adjustable support for a counterbalancing spring. All the parts are mounted on a flat ba...

Apparatus for handling elongated loaves or similar masses of food product, such as luncheon meat, or the like, comprises a table adapted to hold a plurality of the masses in laterally abutting relation, means for elevating the masses sequentially from the table, and a conveyor arranged to receive the masses sequentially from the elevating means and to convey the masses longitudinally. Where it is desired to direct the loaves downwardly, as to direct the loaves into a vertically fed slicer, the a...