Automatic livestock feeder

Claim 1

A MASH AND PELLET FEED METERING VALVE FOR DISPENSING FEED FROM A HOPPER, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING A CYLINDER PERMANENTLY CLOSED AT ITS UPPER END AND DEMOUNTABLY CLOSED AT ITS LOWER END, SAID CYLINDER HAVING AN UPPER HOLE IN THE TOP THEREOF AND A LOWER HOLE IN THE BOTTOM SPACIALLY DISPOSED IN 180* OPPOSED RELATION TO SAID UPPER HOLE, SAID CYLINDER BEING RIGIDLY SEALED TO SAID HOPPER, A HOLLOW PIPE EXTENDING AXIALLY THROUGH THE CYLINDER AND PROTRUDING THROUGH THE UPPER AND LOWER ENDS THEREOF, A SHAFT EXTENDING WITHIN SAID PIPE TO PROTRUDE THEREFROM AT EITHER END THEREOF, A HANDLE AFFIXED TO THE LOWER END OF SAID SHAFT, UNIDIRECTIONAL RATCHET MEANS CONNECTING SAID PIPE TO SAID SHAFT AT THEIR UPPER ENDS, AND A PLURALITY OF VANES RADIALLY AFFIXED TO SAID HOLLOW PIPE TO DIVIDE THE LENGTH OF THE VOLUME OF SAID CYLINDER INTO THREE EQUAL AXIALLY-EXTENDING VOLUMES WHEREIN TWO OF SAID VOLUMES ARE FILLED THROUGH SAID UPPER HOLE AND THE THIRD OF SAID VOLUMES IS SIMULTANEOUSLY EMPTIED THROUGH SAID LOWER HOLE.