Patents Assigned to Turkey Scope, LLC
  • Patent number: 7500815
    Abstract: A livestock unloading system for unloading livestock from a storage unit of a transport vehicle to a processing plant or storage facility. The unloading system includes a conveyor system whereby livestock ride from the storage unit to their destination. The conveying system includes a telescoping end that extends into and retracts from a coop during the unloading process. A truck positioner positions the transport vehicle for the proper unloading process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: Turkey Scope LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Sinn, Voris G. Feather, James Pyle
  • Patent number: 6454510
    Abstract: A livestock unloading system for unloading livestock from a storage unit of a transport vehicle to a processing plant or storage facility. The unloading system includes a conveyor system whereby livestock ride from the storage unit to their destination. The conveying system includes a telescoping end that extends into and retracts from a coop during the unloading process. A system of hydraulics controls the speed of the conveyor, aids in the leveling of the machine, adjusts both the angle and tier of unloading, and levels and controls the telescoping end of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Turkey Scope, LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Sinn, Voris G. Feather, James Pyle
  • Patent number: 6447234
    Abstract: A livestock loading/unloading system for transporting livestock from/to a confinement area to/from a transport vehicle to allow transport from farm-to-farm, from farm-to-processing plant or from processing plant-to-farm. The livestock loading/unloading system includes a mobile conveying apparatus whereby the livestock ride a conveyor from/to the confinement area to/from a transport vehicle. Such a transport vehicle may be specially adapted for use in conjunction with the conveying apparatus, or may be of the conventional livestock transporting type. The conveying apparatus includes a telescoping end that extends into and retracts from the coops of the transport vehicle. A system of hydraulics controls the speed of the conveyor, aids in the transverse leveling of the machine, adjusts both the angle and tier of loading, and levels and controls the telescoping end of the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Turkey Scope, LLC
    Inventors: Steven C. Sinn, John D. Wilham, James Pyle, Richard Bloome