| 摘要 |
The apparatus travels along a multi-tier arrangement of poultry cages, each tier comprising two rows of cages, the cages in these two rows adjoining back-to-back. The apparatus has transversely spaced, depending side units travelling along the cage-fronts and each including a feed container and a lift conveyor lifting feed from the container up to levels associated with the different tiers. At each such level a respective outflow chute on each side unit receives feed, continuously, from the lift conveyor and discharges the same into a feed trough that extends horizontally along the cage-fronts at the respective long side of the multi-tier cage arrangement, so that during dispensing-apparatus travel each longitudinally successive portion of the feed trough receives feed directly from the travelling outflow chute's discharge end. Each chute has an internal feed-flow passage formed by an inclined bottom wall, down along which the feed slides, as well as side walls and a top wall. A large part of the bottom wall is absent, forming a wall opening through which the face of a rotating disk is exposed, this face forming part or most of the passage's bottom boundary surface. During dispensing-apparatus travel, each disk rotates to prevent feed in the chute from cohering therein in a manner that could result in undesirable brief clogging of such feed with resultant undesirable non-uniformities, or even gaps, in the longitudinally extending carpet of feed that the travelling outflow chute is laying down along the length of the feed trough.
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