Abstract: An integral animal feeder and bumper assembly for dispensing animal foodstuff from a vehicle includes an impact member to fend off blows to the vehicle, a hopper to store therein a quantity of substantially granular foodstuff such as, for example, feed corn, and a dispenser to selectively discharge from the hopper foodstuff contained in the hopper. The hopper is substantially contained with the extents of the impact member and/or the aesthetic coverings thereof. In this manner, assembly is adapted to function as a road feeder with little or no interference with other features of the vehicle configuration such as, for example, utilization of the tailgate and/or towing hitch, legal display of the license plate associated with the vehicle, access to the rear area of the vehicle and the like.

Abstract: A broadcast dispenser for use in dispersing an animal feedstuff includes an inlet channel separating in interior space from a spreader leading to an exterior space. The inlet channel includes a flexible gasket about a central orifice and a motor and gate assembly is arranged over and about inlet channel. The motor and gate assembly includes an electric motor having affixed thereto a spreader blade, where the spreader blade is disposed within the spreader on the opposite side of the central orifice from the motor. A gate, which is adapted to lower and raise into and out of sealing engagement, respectively, with said central orifice is provide. In order to accommodate the positioning of the spreader blade with respect to the motor, the gate has an opening in a lower portion thereof and the motor is affixed to the spreader blade through the provided opening.