CN218941984U - Feeding device for livestock raising - Google Patents

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CN218941984U
CN218941984U CN202223034981.0U CN202223034981U CN218941984U CN 218941984 U CN218941984 U CN 218941984U CN 202223034981 U CN202223034981 U CN 202223034981U CN 218941984 U CN218941984 U CN 218941984U
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The utility model relates to the technical field of livestock equipment, and discloses a feeding device for livestock, which comprises a protective shell, wherein a feeding port is fixedly connected to the right side surface of the protective shell close to the top, a particulate storage barrel is fixedly connected to the top of the protective shell close to the left side, pasture enters a cutting plate through the feeding port, a rotating rod drives a blade group plate to move up and down to cut the pasture through rotation, cut pasture enters a stirring barrel through a feeding pipe, valve particles enter the stirring barrel through a particulate feeding pipe, a driving motor drives a four-corner rotating frame to rotate through rotation, a stirring blade is driven to move through rotation, and the stirring blade is used for stirring the pasture and the particulate feed through rotation, so that the pasture is prevented from being mixed together uniformly due to long-time standing, and the quality of the feed is improved.

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Feeding device for livestock raising
Technical Field
The utility model relates to the technical field of livestock equipment, in particular to a feeding device for livestock.
Background
Livestock raising refers to animals such as livestock, poultry and the like which are artificially raised and domesticated by human beings, and plants such as pasture, feed and the like can be converted into animal energy through artificial raising and reproduction, so that the production process of livestock products such as meat, eggs, milk, fur and the like can be obtained, mixed feed is mostly used for feeding the animals when the common livestock raising feeding device is used for feeding the animals, the mixed feed is settled downwards to different depths due to different gravity and the like after being kept for a long time, at the moment, the feed in the mixed feed is unevenly mixed, the feed with uneven mixing is easy to cause uneven nutrition of the animals during feeding, and the grain and the grass in a feeding box are exposed to the outside for a long time and are easy to wet, so that the quality of grains is influenced.
Disclosure of Invention
(one) solving the technical problems
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the utility model provides a feeding device for livestock, which solves the problems that the feed is unevenly mixed due to the gravity and the feed is easy to deteriorate after long-time exposure when standing.
(II) technical scheme
In order to achieve the above purpose, the present utility model provides the following technical solutions: the utility model provides a feeding device for poultry, includes the protecting sheathing, the right flank of protecting sheathing is close to the position fixedly connected with feed inlet at top, the bottom fixedly connected with support column of protecting sheathing, the top of protecting sheathing is close to left position fixedly connected with particulate matter storage barrel, valve switch hole has been seted up to the left surface of protecting sheathing, the trailing flank center of protecting sheathing is close to left position fixedly connected with driving motor, the trailing flank of protecting sheathing and be located driving motor's upper right side fixedly connected with power pole, driving motor passes through the chain and is connected with the power pole transmission, the leading flank of protecting sheathing is close to the position fixedly connected with fixed plate of bottom, the top fixedly connected with spring of fixed plate, the one end rotation connection footboard that the protecting sheathing was kept away from to the fixed plate is kept away from to the fixed plate, the one end and the footboard fixed connection of fixed plate are kept away from to the spring, the inside of protecting sheathing is provided with cutting agitating unit.
Preferably, a feeding device for livestock raising, cutting agitating unit includes particulate matter inlet pipe, dwang, channel-section steel, fixed bolster, blade group board, cutting board, inlet pipe, four corners rotating turret, agitator drum, stirring vane, flitch, feed box fixed plate, feed box, transfer line one, fixed block one, transfer line three, transfer line two and fixed block two, the front end of dwang runs through the rear side inner wall of protecting sheathing, the one end that the dwang stretches into the protecting sheathing inboard is with dwang fixed connection, the one end that the front side of dwang kept away from the dwang rotates the linking bridge, the one end that the support kept away from the dwang rotates with the blade group board to be connected, the top fixedly connected with fixed bolster of blade group board, the top inboard of protecting sheathing is close to the position fixedly connected with channel-section steel on right side, channel-section steel and fixed bolster swing joint, the rear side inner wall of protecting sheathing and the position fixedly connected with cutting board that is located the dwang downside, the left surface fixedly connected with inlet pipe of cutting board, the bottom fixedly connected with bottom of particulate matter storage drum motor, the left side of protecting sheathing motor is connected with the inlet pipe, the left side of the agitating drum is connected with the surface of the side of the agitating drum is connected with the inlet pipe, the left side of the face of the agitating drum is connected with the face of the side of the agitating drum, the surface of the agitating drum is fixedly connected with the face of the surface of the side of the agitating drum, the side is connected with the left side of the face of the side of the agitating drum, the bottom of stirring cask is connected with the flitch through the hinge rotation, the bottom fixedly connected with support of flitch, the support is kept away from the one end and the transfer line rotation of flitch and is connected, the one end and the transfer line two fixedly connected with of support are kept away from to the transfer line one, the rear side inner wall fixedly connected with fixed block one of protecting sheathing, the fixed block one is rotated through the bearing and is connected with the transfer line three, the one end that transfer line one was kept away from to the transfer line two is rotated through bearing and transfer line three and is connected, the top fixedly connected with fixed block two of footboard, the one end that the fixed block one was kept away from to the fixed block two passes through the bearing and transfer line three is rotated and is connected, the position fixedly connected with feed box fixed plate that the rear side inner wall of protecting sheathing is close to the bottom, the top fixedly connected with feed box of feed box fixed plate.
Preferably, the rear side of the protective casing is fixedly connected with a motor fixing frame which is positioned on the left side of the driving motor, one end of the motor fixing frame, which is far away from the protective casing, is fixedly connected with the driving motor, and a fixing support is arranged to increase the stability of the driving motor during rotation.
Preferably, a baffle is fixedly connected to the position, close to the rear side, of the top of the cutting plate, so that pasture to be cut enters the lower side of the blade set plate to be cut.
Preferably, a discharging baffle is fixedly connected to the first position of the transmission rod, which is close to the discharging plate, so that the feed is prevented from falling to the outer side of a rectangular opening formed in the right side of the feeding box during blanking.
Preferably, the rear side of the feeding box is higher than the front side, so that the feed can slide to the front side of the feeding box, and the feeding of animals is facilitated.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model provides a feeding device for livestock, which has the following beneficial effects:
1. this feeding device for poultry, the forage grass enters into the cutting board through the feed inlet, the dwang passes through the rotation and drives blade group board and reciprocate and cut the forage grass, the forage grass that cuts is passed through the inlet pipe and is got into the stirring cask, open valve particulate matter and enter into the stirring cask through the particulate matter inlet pipe, driving motor drives the four corners rotating frame through the rotation and rotates, the four corners rotating frame drives stirring vane through the rotation and removes, stirring vane stirs forage grass and particulate matter fodder through rotating and makes its even mix together, it leads to inhomogeneous to have prevented that the fodder from standing for a long time, the quality of fodder has been improved.
2. This feeding device for poultry, trample when the animal feeds, pedal downward movement drives the transfer line three-dimensional down movement, transfer line three passes through transfer line two and drives transfer line one down movement, transfer line one passes through the right side of support drive flitch and moves down, open flitch fodder and get into the feed box, pedal upward movement owing to the elasticity of spring when the animal feeds and leaves the back footboard, drive transfer line three-dimensional upward movement when the footboard upward movement, transfer line three passes through transfer line two and drive transfer line one and reciprocate, transfer line one passes through the support of flitch bottom and drives the right side of flitch and move up, the left side of flitch is rotated through the hinge, the discharge gate is closed, the long-time exposure of fodder is outside moist has been prevented, the quality of fodder has been improved.
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FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of the internal structure of the present utility model;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the feeding apparatus of the present utility model;
FIG. 3 is a rear view of the feeding apparatus of the present utility model;
fig. 4 is an enlarged view of the structure of fig. 1 according to the present utility model.
Wherein: 1. a protective housing; 2. a feed inlet; 201. a particulate storage tub; 202. a particulate feed tube; 203. a valve opening and closing hole; 3. a support column; 4. a power lever; 401. a rotating lever; 402. channel steel; 403. a fixed bracket; 404. a blade set plate; 405. cutting the plate; 406. a feed pipe; 5. a driving motor; 501. a four-corner rotating frame; 502. stirring the barrel; 503. stirring blades; 504. a discharge plate; 6. a feeding box fixing plate; 601. a feeding box; 602. a transmission rod I; 603. a first fixed block; 604. a transmission rod III; 605. a transmission rod II; 606. a second fixed block; 7. a fixing plate; 701. a spring; 702. a pedal.
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The following description of the embodiments of the present utility model will be made clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which it is apparent that the embodiments described are only some embodiments of the present utility model, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be made by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the utility model without making any inventive effort, are intended to be within the scope of the utility model.
Referring to fig. 1-4, the utility model provides a feeding device for livestock, which comprises a protective housing 1, wherein a feeding port 2 is fixedly connected to a position, close to the top, of the right side surface of the protective housing 1, a supporting column 3 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the protective housing 1, a particulate matter storage barrel 201 is fixedly connected to a position, close to the left side, of the top of the protective housing 1, a valve opening and closing hole 203 is formed in the left side surface of the protective housing 1, a driving motor 5 is fixedly connected to a position, close to the left side, of the center of the rear side surface of the protective housing 1, a power rod 4 is fixedly connected to the rear side surface of the protective housing 1 and positioned on the upper right side of the driving motor 5, the driving motor 5 is in transmission connection with the power rod 4 through a chain, a fixing plate 7 is fixedly connected to the position, close to the bottom, close to the front side surface of the protective housing 1, a spring 701 is fixedly connected to the top of the fixing plate 7, one end, far from the protective housing 1, of the fixing plate 7 is rotationally connected to a pedal 702, one end, far from the fixing plate 7, is fixedly connected to the pedal 702, and a cutting and stirring device is arranged inside the protective housing 1.
Further, a feeding device for livestock raising, the cutting and stirring device comprises a particulate matter feeding pipe 202, a rotating rod 401, channel steel 402, a fixed support 403, a blade group plate 404, a cutting plate 405, a feeding pipe 406, a four-corner rotating frame 501, a stirring barrel 502, stirring blades 503, a discharging plate 504, a feeding box fixing plate 6, a feeding box 601, a first transmission rod 602, a first fixing block 603, a third transmission rod 604, a second transmission rod 605 and a second fixing block 606, the front end of a power rod 4 penetrates through the rear inner wall of a protective shell 1, one end of the power rod 4 extending into the inner side of the protective shell 1 is fixedly connected with the rotating rod 401, one end of the front side of the rotating rod 401, far from the power rod 4, rotates a connecting support, one end of the support far from the rotating rod 401 is rotationally connected with the blade group plate 404, the top of the blade group plate 404 is fixedly connected with the fixed support 403, the position, close to the right side, on the inner side of the top of the protective shell 1, is fixedly connected with the channel steel 402, the channel steel 402 is movably clamped with the fixed support 403, the cutting plate 405 is fixedly connected to the rear inner wall of the protective housing 1 and positioned at the lower side of the rotating rod 401, the feeding pipe 406 is fixedly connected to the left side surface of the cutting plate 405, the particle feeding pipe 202 is fixedly connected to the bottom of the particle storage barrel 201, the valve is fixedly connected to the left side surface of the particle feeding pipe 202, the front end of the driving motor 5 penetrates through the rear inner wall of the protective housing 1, the output end of the driving motor 5 stretches into the protective housing 1 and is fixedly connected with the four-corner rotating frame 501, one end of the four-corner rotating frame 501 far from the center is fixedly connected with the stirring blade 503, the position of the rear inner wall of the protective housing 1 close to the left side is fixedly connected with the stirring barrel 502, the particle feeding pipe 202 is fixedly connected to the left side surface of the stirring barrel 502, the feeding pipe 406 is fixedly connected to the right side surface of the stirring barrel 502, rectangular holes are formed in the bottom of the stirring barrel 502, the bottom of the stirring barrel 502 is rotationally connected with a discharging plate 504 through a hinge, the bottom of the discharging plate 504 is fixedly connected with a support, one end of the support, which is far away from the discharging plate 504, is rotationally connected with a first transmission rod 602, one end of the first transmission rod 602, which is far away from the support, is fixedly connected with a second transmission rod 605, the inner wall of the rear side of the protective shell 1 is fixedly connected with a first fixing block 603, the first fixing block 603 is rotationally connected with a third transmission rod 604 through a bearing, one end of the second transmission rod 605, which is far away from the first transmission rod 602, is rotationally connected with a second fixing block 606 through a bearing and one end of the third transmission rod 604, which is far away from the first fixing block 603, the inner wall of the rear side of the protective shell 1 is close to the bottom is fixedly connected with a feeding box fixing plate 6, and the top of the feeding box fixing plate 6 is fixedly connected with a feeding box 601.
Further, the rear side of the protective housing 1 is fixedly connected with a motor fixing frame which is positioned on the left side of the driving motor 5, one end of the motor fixing frame, which is far away from the protective housing 1, is fixedly connected with the driving motor 5, and a fixing support is arranged to increase the stability of the driving motor 5 during rotation.
Further, a baffle is fixedly connected to the top of the cutting plate 405 near the rear side, so that the pasture to be cut enters the lower side of the blade set plate 404 to cut the pasture.
Further, a discharging baffle is fixedly connected to the position, close to the discharging plate 504, of the first transmission rod 602, so that feed is prevented from falling to the outer side of a rectangular opening formed in the right side of the feeding box 601 during blanking.
Further, the rear side of the feeding box 601 is higher than the front side, so that the feed can slide to the front side of the feeding box 601, and the feed can be fed conveniently by animals.
When in use, pasture enters the upper part of the cutting plate 405 through the feed inlet 2, the driving motor 5 drives the power rod 4 to rotate through a chain, the power rod 4 drives the rotating rod 401 to rotate through rotation, the rotating rod 401 drives the blade group plate 404 to move upwards through the bracket when rotating upwards from the bottom, the blade group plate 404 is driven to move downwards through the bracket when rotating upwards again when rotating upwards from the top of the rotating rod 401, the fixed bracket 403 and the channel steel 402 fix the blade group plate 404 to move only up and down, the pasture on the cutting plate 405 is cut when the blade group plate 404 moves up and down, the cut pasture slides to the left side of the cutting plate 405, the pasture enters the stirring drum 502 through the feed pipe 406, the pellet feed is poured into the pellet storage drum 201, the pellet feed enters the stirring drum 502 through the pellet feed pipe 202 when needed, the driving motor 5 drives the four-corner rotating frame 501 to rotate through the output end, the four-corner rotating frame 501 drives the stirring blade 503 to move through rotation, the stirring blade 503 stirs the feed in the stirring barrel 502 to ensure uniform mixing of the feed, the pedal 702 is stepped on when the animal needs to eat, the rear top side of the pedal 702 moves downwards due to gravity, the pedal 702 moves downwards to drive the front end of the transmission rod III 604 to move downwards, the transmission rod III 604 drives the transmission rod I602 to move downwards through the transmission rod II 605, the transmission rod I602 drives the right side of the discharge plate 504 to move downwards through the bracket at the bottom of the discharge plate 504, the left side of the discharge plate 504 rotates through a hinge, the feed falls into the feeding box 601 through a feed port, the rear side of the feeding box 601 is higher than the front side of the feed, the feed slides downwards to the front side, the animal is convenient to eat when the animal eat and the pedal 702 moves upwards due to the elasticity of the spring 701 after the animal leaves, when the rear side of the top of the pedal 702 moves upwards, the front end of the transmission rod III 604 is driven to move upwards, the transmission rod III 604 drives the transmission rod I602 to move upwards through the transmission rod II 605, the transmission rod I602 drives the right side of the discharge plate 504 to move upwards through the bracket at the bottom of the discharge plate 504, the left side of the discharge plate 504 rotates through a hinge, and the discharge plate 504 is closed.
Although embodiments of the present utility model have been shown and described, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made therein without departing from the principles and spirit of the utility model, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

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1. Feeding device for poultry, including protecting sheathing (1), its characterized in that: the right side of the protective housing (1) is fixedly connected with a feed inlet (2) near the position of the top, the bottom of the protective housing (1) is fixedly connected with a support column (3), the position of the top of the protective housing (1) near the left side is fixedly connected with a particulate matter storage barrel (201), the left side of the protective housing (1) is provided with a valve switch hole (203), the position of the center of the rear side of the protective housing (1) near the left side is fixedly connected with a driving motor (5), the rear side of the protective housing (1) is fixedly connected with a power rod (4) at the right upper side of the driving motor (5), the utility model discloses a motor drive (5) is connected with power pole (4) transmission through the chain, the leading flank of protecting sheathing (1) is close to the position fixedly connected with fixed plate (7) of bottom, the top fixedly connected with spring (701) of fixed plate (7), the one end that protecting sheathing (1) was kept away from to fixed plate (7) rotates and connects footboard (702), the one end that fixed plate (7) was kept away from to spring (701) and footboard (702) fixed connection, the inside of protecting sheathing (1) is provided with cutting agitating unit.
2. A feeding device for poultry according to claim 1, characterized in that: the cutting stirring device comprises a particulate matter feeding pipe (202), a rotating rod (401), channel steel (402), a fixed support (403), a blade group plate (404), a cutting plate (405), a feeding pipe (406), a four-corner rotating frame (501), a stirring barrel (502), stirring blades (503), a discharging plate (504), a feeding box fixing plate (6), a feeding box (601), a first transmission rod (602), a first fixed block (603), a third transmission rod (604), a second transmission rod (605) and a second fixed block (606), the front end of the power rod (4) penetrates through the inner wall of the rear side of the protective housing (1), one end of the power rod (4) extending into the inner side of the protective housing (1) is fixedly connected with the rotating rod (401), one end of the front side of the rotating rod (401) far away from the power rod (4) is rotationally connected with a support, one end of the support far away from the rotating rod (401) is rotationally connected with the blade group plate (404), the top of the blade group plate (404) is fixedly connected with the fixed support (403), the inner side of the protective housing (1) is close to the right side of the channel steel (402) is fixedly connected with the channel steel (403), the utility model discloses a discharge device, including protection shell (1), rotary rod (401) and stirring drum (502), the rear side inner wall of protection shell (1) and be located the position fixedly connected with cutting board (405) of rotary rod (401) downside, the left surface fixedly connected with inlet pipe (406) of cutting board (405), the bottom fixedly connected with particulate matter inlet pipe (202) of particulate matter storage drum (201), the left side surface fixedly connected with valve of particulate matter inlet pipe (202), the front end of driving motor (5) runs through the rear side inner wall of protection shell (1), the output that driving motor (5) stretches into protection shell (1) and four corners rotary frame (501) fixed connection, the one end fixedly connected with stirring vane (503) of center is kept away from to four corners rotary frame (501), the rear side inner wall of protection shell (1) is close to the position fixedly connected with stirring drum (502) of left side, the left side surface fixedly connected with particulate matter inlet pipe (202) of stirring drum (502), the right side surface fixedly connected with inlet pipe (406) of stirring drum (502), the bottom of stirring drum (504) is equipped with rectangular hole, the bottom of stirring drum (504) is equipped with stirring drum (504), the bottom is kept away from the bottom of a rotary rod (602) fixed connection with a discharge plate (602), one end that support was kept away from to transfer line one (602) and transfer line two (605) fixed connection, the rear side inner wall fixedly connected with fixed block one (603) of shell (1), fixed block one (603) is connected with transfer line three (604) through the bearing rotation, the one end that transfer line one (602) was kept away from to transfer line two (605) is connected with transfer line three (604) rotation through the bearing, the top fixedly connected with fixed block two (606) of footboard (702), the one end that fixed block one (603) was kept away from to fixed block two (606) is rotated through bearing and transfer line three (604) and is connected, the rear side inner wall of shell (1) is close to position fixedly connected with feed box fixed plate (6) of bottom, the top fixedly connected with feed box (601) of feed box fixed plate (6).
3. A feeding device for poultry according to claim 1, characterized in that: the motor fixing frame is fixedly connected to the rear side face of the protective shell (1) and located on the left side of the driving motor (5), and one end, away from the protective shell (1), of the motor fixing frame is fixedly connected with the driving motor (5).
4. A feeding device for poultry according to claim 2, characterized in that: a baffle is fixedly connected to the top of the cutting plate (405) near the rear side.
5. A feeding device for poultry according to claim 2, characterized in that: and a discharge baffle is fixedly connected to the position, close to the discharge plate (504), of the first transmission rod (602).
6. A feeding device for poultry according to claim 2, characterized in that: the rear side of the feeding box (601) is higher than the front side.
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