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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 1980
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1978
Ezra C Lundahl, Providence, UT (US);
Brent W Brown, Smithfield, UT (US);
Ezra C. Lundahl, Inc., Logan, UT (US);
Abstract
A system for weighing and placing stacked foliage in inventory and for, thereafter, precisely determining and feeding a metered or controlled amount of foliage material from inventory on a stack-by-stack basis. A foliage stacking machine is used to stack, weigh and place the foliage in cumulative inventory. A stack feeder is used from time to time to feed to livestock predetermined and metered amounts of foliage from successive stacks taken from inventory, while continuously monitoring the cumulative amount of foliage in inventory. Electronic strain gauges are disposed upon the frame of both the stacking machine and the stack feeder which strain gauges are calibrated to provide a total stack weight readout (at any time before, during or after each feeding operation). A calculator for determining the amount of feed to be discharged on each occasion is provided. The capacity to preset the stack feeder to discharge only a said predetermined amount of foliage and to provide a continuous instantaneous readout of the amount of foliage actually discharged from a stack at any point in time during feeding operation is available. A continuous readout of the instantaneous amount of foliage remaining in inventory is provided.