Patents Assigned to Raytec, LLC
  • Patent number: 6805078
    Abstract: A livestock weighing and sorting apparatus includes a frame, a weighing station supported by the frame and defining inlet and outlet openings and a passageway extending therebetween for permitting an animal to go through the weighing station and be weighed while therein, dual inlet gates mounted to the frame side-by-side one another adjacent to the inlet opening and movable toward and away from each other between opened and closed positions, a first actuator mechanism actuatable to move the dual inlet gates between the opened and closed positions, an outlet sort gate mounted to the frame adjacent to the outlet opening and movable between a centered closed position and either a first opened position or a second opened position, and a second actuator mechanism actuatable to move the outlet sort gate between the centered closed position and either the first or second opened positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Raytec, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond G. Zimmerman, Harry H. Sauder, Glen M. Zimmerman