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Article: German Inventor Develops Poultry Feeding Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 20, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 20 -- Roland Busse of Cloppenburg, Germany, has developed a device for the feeding of free-range poultry kept in a coop.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A device for feeding poultry kept in a barn, comprises at least one food supply tube which is held above the floor of the barn such as to be able to be lowered or raised, with a series of branch openings, each provided with a dish device hanging on the supply tube, comprising a dropping tube extending from the branch opening and a feeding dish arranged below, the dropping tube with a spoked arrangement of lattice bars forming the cup of the dish. The dropping ...