DROP FEED LINE DEVICE WITH PLANAR CIRCUIT BOARDS HAVING EMITTERS AND RECEIVERS

• Main Author: King, Timothy Glenn
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.12.2021
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CARE OF BIRDS, FISHES, INSECTS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; DETECTING MASSES OR OBJECTS; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FISHING; FORESTRY; GEOPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL MEASUREMENTS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; MEASURING; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS; PHYSICS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TESTING; TRAPPING

Disclosed is a drop feed line device for automatically controlling flow of feed through a feed drop. The drop feed line device includes a drop body with an electrical box and a feed tube, as well as two planar circuit boards within respective sleeves removably positioned on opposite sides of the feed tube and in electrical communication with electronic components within the electrical box. In certain embodiments, the planar circuit boards include infrared emitters and receivers to electrically communicate across an interior channel of the feed tube. The electronic components are configured to transmit a signal to cease operation of an auger motor filling a drop feed line upon determining that all of the emitters cease to communicate with all of the receivers. The drop feed line device is cost effective and serviceable through the use of easily removable planar circuit boards, among other features and components.