RU2536628C2 - Drinking trough for animals - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: agriculture.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to agriculture. The trough is made in the form of a drinking line with at least one pipeline of water supply and several drinking valves. The valves are mounted on the pipeline of water supply, which is made in the form of a water circulation pipeline having several parallel water-conducting pipelines. The water-conducting lines communicate at their ends and on at least one of them the drinking valves are mounted. The lines of the pipeline are located in a common outer pipe divided by at least one partition. The trough is formed as the drinking line with at least one water-supply pipeline and several drinking valves attached to at least one line of the pipeline. At least one line of the pipeline has a vertical jumper. Two water-conducting lines are made interdependent by the fact that both lines are located at a distance from each other and interconnected by the vertical jumper. The jumper and the lines of the pipeline located at its opposite longitudinal edges are made interconnected in the form of the integral whole.

EFFECT: smooth supply of animals with water is ensured.

19 cl, 11 dwg

Description

The invention relates to a drinking bowl for animals, preferably a drinking line, according to the restrictive part of paragraph 1, 5 or 18.

Drinking bowls for animals of this type serve to meet the needs of animals, especially farm animals, in water. First of all, with the industrial keeping of small animals, such as poultry, the so-called watering lines are used. Known water lines have a plurality of water valves that are attached to an elongated pipe line whereby the water valves are supplied with water. Watering valves can be actuated by the animals themselves. If the animal actuates the drinking valve, then it gives water to the animal.

If animals do not operate a single water valve or only a few water valves, the water in the piping line stagnates. First of all, at night, if animals do not take water for a long time, this can lead to the fact that the number of microorganisms contained in water increases rapidly. However, this can lead to an excess of the permissible number of microorganisms, which leads to danger to animals. In addition, especially in warmer regions, water is very hot if it stays in the pipeline for a long time. At such relatively high temperatures, the multiplication of microorganisms in water is accelerated. But stagnant water for a long time in the pipeline line can also cause solid particles to precipitate in the water and enter the water-sensitive water valves, which can therefore become inoperative. Finally, prolonged stagnation of water supplied with additives leads to stratification. For example, a different concentration of drugs may form in water.

Based on the foregoing, the invention is based on the task of creating a drinking bowl for animals, which provides a trouble-free supply of water to animals, primarily meets hygiene requirements.

To solve this problem, the drinking bowl for animals has the characteristics of paragraph 1 of the claims. Thus, water supply is made in the form of a pipeline with pumping water. Due to this, a water circuit arises. Water circulates constantly or at least periodically, due to which it is always in motion, even if all the drinking valves are not used for a long time. Water, in this case it is pure tap water, but also water with additives, for example, medicines, nutrients or the like, constantly flows past the watering valves. Thus, water, especially if it contains any additives, cannot be exfoliated. Also, during stagnation of water, solids contained in water cannot precipitate.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the water circulation pipe is formed of several pipe lines. Preferably, the water circulation pipe has two pipe lines that are connected at their ends to a water conduit. Pipeline lines can be separated from each other, but also be interconnected. Preferably, the elongated, straight lines of the pipelines enable closed circulation of water due to the connection of their ends.

It is further envisaged to give all the drinking valves to one of the piping lines, preferably the bottom of the piping lines located one above the other. This bottom line of the piping is accessible to animals in the usual way for the feeding lines from below or from the side, since the watering valves partially protrude from the bottom of the pipeline line. If water flows past the water valves in the direction through the bottom line of the pipeline, in the upper line of the pipeline it again goes back to the beginning of the lower line of the pipeline. It is also permissible to give watering valves to both piping lines. It is also advisable that both lines of pipelines, used to form a pipeline with water circulation, are located next to each other. Thus, a greater number of watering valves can be located in a certain surface area than in known watering lines.

The following animal drinker for solving the aforementioned problem, and it may also be a preferred improvement of the above animal drinker, has the features of claim 5. According to this, the water supply is provided with at least one processing device for serving water for feeding the water valves. Thanks to this, water treatment is possible. This is true, first of all, if water circulates in the circuit, whereby it repeatedly flows past the processing device and can be constantly prepared.

In the case of a processing device, we can talk about such a device that eliminates harmful substances from water, such as bacteria, microorganisms, fungi, or the like. This prevents microbial contamination of the drinking water supplied by the animal or at least decreases so much that the specified limit values are not exceeded. Water is disinfected and / or sterilized. Preferably, the water is treated by irradiation. Advantageously, the processing device is formed by at least one ultraviolet lamp (UV lamp), whereby the animal water to be treated is exposed to UV radiation.

Alternatively or additionally, a processing device is possible, which is made in the form of a tempering device (device for maintaining a uniform temperature) of water. Due to this, the water can be cooled or heated as necessary. In hot regions, water is preferably cooled, whereby the rate of multiplication of microbiological organisms in water is reduced. In cold regions, it may be necessary to heat water so that animals do not get too cold water.

Further, it is assumed that the drinking bowl for animals has a dispenser, for example a device for supplying medicines. Due to this, medicines or other additives, such as nutrients, can be deliberately, dosed, mixed into drinking water. First of all, if water circulates in pipelines directed along the contour, with the help of a dispenser, a uniform and accurately metered addition of medicines and other additives can be achieved.

The preferred improvement of all employees to solve the above problem for drinking bowls for animals involves the addition of a pipeline for the circulation of water or piping lines of a pump for circulation for the water intended for drinking animals. At least one pump serves as a circulation pump that maintains the flow of drinking water in the piping lines, even if water is not drawn from animals on the watering valves.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the at least one pump serves to supply liquid to the water valves from the storage tank. The storage tank is a fluid buffer. This buffer ensures that at least one pump is constantly supplied with a sufficient amount of fluid so that it can constantly maintain fluid circulation in the piping lines.

It is further envisaged to attach a pump and / or storage tank to the adjacent ends of both pipelines. At least one pump and preferably also a storage tank thus lead to the connection of the ends located on the same side of the drinking bowl for animals of both pipelines. Thus, the water flowing back from the pipeline line can be received by the storage tank, and from it the water is again pumped to another pipeline line. Then the adjacent ends of the piping lines on the opposite side of the animal drinker need only be connected to the bypass channel.

In a preferred embodiment, the storage tank is provided with at least one inflow for water, for example fresh water from a well. The water taken by animals from the watering valves is again fed through the tributary to the storage tank, and the storage tank is again continuously filled.

Those serving to solve the problem of drinking bowls for animals can, first of all, before inflow into the storage tank, have a pressure reducing valve, which thus limits and reduces the pressure with which the storage tank is supplied with fresh water from the water supply system, so that water is not sprayed out from the watering valves opened by animals . Preferably, the pressure reducing valve also serves to maintain a substantially constant water level in the storage tank.

Another animal drinker for solving the above problem has the features of paragraph 18 of the claims, while this may also be about the preferred improvements of the above drinkers for animals. This animal drinker provides that at least one line of the pipeline has a vertical bridge. Through this vertical bridge, the pipeline line is not only strengthened; The jumper can also be used to hang the piping line in the stable and prevents animals, especially poultry, from sitting on the piping lines and preventing other animals from drinking.

In animal drinkers with two parallel pipelines, the pipelines are designed to be interconnected. Preferably, both pipelines located at some distance from each other are connected to each other by means of a jumper, while the jumper and the pipelines located on their opposite longitudinal edges are monolithic. Thus, the piping lines are connected seamlessly, whereby hygiene problems due to accumulated dirt are prevented.

Preferably, for all drinking bowls for animals, for the solution of the aforementioned problem, the formation of pipelines from several plumbing sections of pipelines connected together is provided. Pipeline sections have both parallel sections of the pipeline line and jumper sections. By connecting the required number of identical sections of the pipeline line, a correspondingly long animal drinker is created with both parallel pipeline lines.

Further, a preferred embodiment of an animal drinker according to the invention is explained in more detail using the drawing. It shows:

Figure 1 is a General perspective view of the drinking bowls for animals,

Figure 2 is a side view of the technological unit of the drinking bowl for animals in view II according to figure 1,

Figure 3 is a vertical longitudinal section through the center through the process unit shown in figure 2,

Figure 4 is a transverse section IV-IV through the processing unit,

Figure 5 is a longitudinal section V-V through the technological unit,

6 is a longitudinal section VI-VI through the processing unit,

Fig.7 is a cross-section through the conduit of the drinking bowl for animals,

Fig. 8 is a view of a connector of two plumbing sections,

Fig.9 is a vertical section through the junction without sections of the pipeline,

Figure 10 is a longitudinal section through the center through a pipe line connector, and

11 is a cross-section through the conduit of the drinking bowl for animals according to an alternative embodiment of the invention.

In Fig. 1, an animal drinker made in the form of a drinking line is fully shown. The drinking line allows animals, especially small animals, such as poultry, to independently satisfy their need for water. The watering line is suspended in the barn on ropes not shown, namely, at a distance corresponding to the growth of animals from the crib floor, so that animals can conveniently reach the watering valves 20 of the watering line. The watering valves 20 have a valve pin 21 that the animals at their lower free end lift and / or tilt with their beaks, whereby the watering valve 20 is opened to dispense water to the animals. After releasing the valve pin 21, the watering valve 20 closes automatically.

The drinking line has an elongated, rectilinear water pipe 22. The pipe 22 of the water circulation is suspended in the stable so that it runs horizontally. The water circulation pipe 22 according to the invention is configured so that it allows for closed water circulation inside the drinking line. To this end, the water circulation pipe 22 has two parallel piping lines 23, 24 that extend linearly in the longitudinal direction of the water circulation pipe 22, namely, in the horizontal direction. Both lines 23, 24 of pipelines have the same cross section, which in the shown embodiment is made quadrangular with rounded edges. But lines 23 and 24 of pipelines can also have other sections. In the shown drinking bowl for animals, lines 23, 24 of the pipelines are spaced one above the other. In this case, all the drinking valves 20 are attached only to the bottom line 24 of the pipeline. Watering valves 20 are distributed at an even distance along the entire length of the line 24 of the pipeline. The watering valves 20 are screwed into the pipe line 24 from below so that the free lower end of the valve pin 21 protrudes downward from the lower wall of the pipe line 24 so that the valve pins 21 of the watering valves 20 are freely accessible to animals.

The pipelines 23 and 24 located one above the other at a distance are connected by means of a vertical narrow bridge 25, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the parallel pipelines 23 and 24 (Fig. 7). Above the upper line 23 of the pipeline is another vertical bridge 26, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the line 23 of the pipeline. The middle planes of both jumpers 25 and 26 lie on the common vertical middle plane 27 of the water circulation pipe 22. On this middle plane 27 also lie the centers of the lines 23 and 24 of the pipelines (Fig.7). A triangular edge profile 28 is attached to one free upper longitudinal edge of the upper web 26, which has a tip 29 extending in the longitudinal direction of the water circulation pipe 22. This tip 29 of the edge profile 28 prevents animals from sitting on top of the water circulation pipe 22. The triangular profile 28 of the edge also serves to attach the suspensions 30 to the lower ends of the cables not shown for hanging the drinking lines in the stable.

The lines 23, 24 of the pipelines, jumpers 25, 26 and the edge profile 28 are connected together seamlessly, due to which the water circulation pipe 22 does not have joints in which contaminants could accumulate (Fig. 5). Thus, the entire water circulation conduit 22 can be easily cleaned.

The water circulation pipe 22 is formed from the same and preferably equal in length sections of the pipe 31. Several consecutive sections of the pipeline 31 form the entire pipeline 22 of the water circulation of the drinking line. Depending on the length of the drinking line, the number of sections 31 of the pipeline located one after the other, the same, primarily equal in length, varies. Figure 1 shows only two sections 31 of the pipeline. But the drinking line, as a rule, has more than two sections 31 of the pipeline. The sections 31 of the pipeline with their end faces facing each other are assembled together at the junction 32. To this end, two removable pads 33 are provided at each connection point 32. The pads 33 are made identically and are mounted in opposite directions to each other on the water circulation pipe 22, namely with an overlap of adjacent end regions of the pipe sections 31 to be connected. Both blocks 33 cover the adjacent end areas of sections 34, 35 of the pipeline line, which serve to form the lines 23, 24 of the pipelines. In order to water tightly connect the pipe sections 34 and 35 of the adjacent pipe sections 31, the blocks 33 formed together form a sleeve 36 around the corresponding pipe line 23 and 24. The sleeves 36 for each line 23 and 24 of the pipelines are equipped with two seals 37 located at a distance from each other. By means of several screws 38 (Fig. 8), the jumper blocks 33 are pressed against the adjacent sides to form the jumpers 25 and 26 of the jumper sections 39 and 40 the end regions of the bridge sections 39 and 40, namely, so much so that the abutment surfaces 41 of the blocks 33 abut against the walls of the bridge sections 39 and 40. In this case, the seals 37 are pressed around the circumference from the outside to the end regions of the sections 34 and 35 of the pipelines and are preliminarily clamped to produce sufficient sealing action.

Lines 23 and 24 of pipelines are connected at the opposite ends of the drinking bowl for animals, so that water in lines 23, 24 of the pipelines can circulate in a closed path. At the rear end (with reference to the image in FIG. 1 — the right end) of the water circulation pipe 22 is a pipe line connector 42, which in the illustrated embodiment also serves as an air exhaust valve and for flushing the water circulation pipe 22. At the opposite front end (the left end in FIG. 1), the lines 23 and 24 of the pipelines of the water circulation pipe 22 are connected to the possibility of conducting water through the process unit 43. Preferably, a pressure reducing valve 44 is located in front of the process unit 43. The pressure reducing valve 44 itself A known construction reduces the pressure by which water is supplied through the water supply system to a lower pressure for operating animal drinkers.

Technological unit 43 has a waterproof housing 45, which contains the essential components necessary for the operation of a drinking bowl for animals. The housing 45 is formed of two half-shells 46, 47, which are screwed together and sealed with seals. A small inner casing 48 is formed in the half-shell 47 and extends across the entire width of the casing 45, which is open towards the outer side of the half-shell 47. This open side of the inner casing 48 is sealed for liquid by means of a lid 49, which is flush-closed with the outer wall of the half-shell 47. In the inner case 48 housed electrical contacts and control 50 of the drinking bowl for animals (figure 4). The inner housing 48 is adjacent to the vertical end wall 51 of the housing 45 directed toward the water circulation pipe 22, but ends at a distance from the opposite end wall 52 of the housing 45 directed towards the pressure reducing valve 44. An inlet pipe 61 is located in the end wall 52. Between the distance from the end wall 52, the end wall 53 of the inner case 48 and the end wall 52 has a horizontal partition 54 located inside the case 45. By means of the partition 54 and the inner case 48 the inside of the housing 45 is watertight divided into a lower storage tank 55 and an upper bypass channel 56 (FIG. 3). The storage tank 55 has a significantly larger volume than the bypass channel 56.

In the storage tank 55 in the housing 45 is a pump 57, for example a submersible pump. On the pressure side, the pump 57 is provided with a vertical pipe 58 that imperviously passes through the baffle 54 to the bypass channel 56. By means of this, the pump 57 delivers water from the storage tank 55 to the bypass channel 56 (FIG. 3). In the storage tank 55, a float switch 59 is located above the pump 57. The float switch 59 has a float body 60 that can rotate about a horizontal axis of rotation, which, when the water level in the storage tank is lowered below a certain minimum level, turns off the pump 57.

The animal drinker shown has a processing device for circulating water in the animal drinker. In the shown embodiment, in the case of the processing device, this is an ultraviolet-generating UV lamp 62. The UV lamp 62 is located in the storage tank 55 in the housing 45 is accessible from the outside (FIG. 3). The UV lamp 62 is watertight tightly screwed onto the cap 63 in the end wall 51.

An animal drinker may have one or more other processing devices for circulating water. This may be a dispenser for dispensing additives (preferably liquid additives) for water. This device may be, for example, a device for the addition of medicines. Further, a device for cooling and / or heating water may be provided. These other processing devices are also preferably located in the area of the process unit 43.

An outlet pipe 65 located in connection with the bypass channel 56 is located in the end wall 51 of the housing 45. Through the outlet pipe 65, water flows from the bypass channel 56 to the upper line 23 of the water circulation pipe 22. Further, an inlet pipe 66 is attached to the end wall 51 of the housing 45, which passes into the storage tank 55. Through the inlet pipe 66, water from the bottom line 24 of the water circulation pipe 22 flows back into the storage tank 55.

The pipe line connector 42 on the opposite end of the process unit 43 of the rear end of the water circulation pipe 22 has an inlet pipe 67 that is waterproofly connected to the end of the upper line 23 of the pipeline and an outlet pipe 68 which is waterproofly connected to the lower portion 24 of the pipeline line. The rear ends of the lines 23 and 24 are connected pipelines with an inlet pipe 67 and an outlet pipe 68 of the connector 42 of the pipeline line is also detachable by means of blocks 33, which are located on the lnyh field portions 31 of the pipeline 32.

Water coming from the pipe line 23 is redirected in the pipe line connector 42 to the pipe line 24, in which water flows back to the storage tank 55 in the housing 45 of the process unit 43. The pipe line connector 42 has two earrings 69 located on opposite sides of the inlet pipe 67 by of which the pipe line connector 42 is screwed on jumpers 25 and 26 of the water circulation pipe 22.

The pipe line connector 42 shown here simultaneously serves to ventilate (deaerate) the water circulation pipe 22 and to flush it if necessary to clean the drinker for animals. For this, the overflow channel 70 open at the top in the pipe line connector 42 is elongated upward through the ventilation pipe 71 (FIG. 1). Typically, the open upper end of the ventilation pipe 71 may be closed to flush the drinking bowl for animals with a lock 72 or valve. At the lower end of the bypass channel 70, the pipe line connector 42 has a flushing pipe 72 opposite the outlet pipe 68. The washing pipe 73 during operation of the animal drinker is sealed by a waterproof cap (not shown in FIG. 10). This cap is removed to flush the drinking bowl for animals to connect a water hose.

11 shows an alternative embodiment of the water circulation pipe 22 shown in FIG. In the water circulation pipe 75 shown in FIG. 11, both pipe lines 76 and 77 are located in a single, common outer pipe 78. In this outer pipe 78, the pipe lines 76, 77 located one above the other are formed by transversely directed horizontal partitions 79, 80 and 81. By means of these three partitions 79, 80, 81 in the outer pipe 78, two other pipe chambers 82 and 83 are formed above the lines 76 and 77 below. They can serve any other purpose, but also remain unused. Then the tube chambers 82 and 83 serve only to stiffen the water circulation pipe 75. At the top of the outer pipe 78, as with the water circulation pipe 22, a vertical bridge 26 is provided with a pointed edge profile 28.

The profile of the outer pipe 78 shown in FIG. 11 is exemplary. Outer pipe 78 may have any other profile appropriate to the needs. It is crucial that the lower horizontal wall of the bottom line 76 of the pipeline is made flat so that due to this wall 84 the water valves 20 not shown in FIG. 11 can be screwed into the line 76 of the water circulation pipe 75. In contrast to the embodiment shown in FIG. 11, it is also permissible to arrange the top line 77 of the pipeline not directly above the bottom line 76 of the pipeline, but in the tube chamber 82 or 83.

The following explains the principle of operation of the above drinkers according to the invention.

During operation of the drinking bowl for animals, the flushing pipe 73 of the pipe line connector 42 is closed and the ventilation pipe 71 extended upward into the bypass channel 70 is open.

During operation of the drinking bowl for animals, the pump 57 operates. The pump 45 can operate continuously, and also only periodically. Due to the operation of pump 57, water in the animal drinker is constantly circulating. Water flowing through line 23 of the pipeline at the rear end of the water circulation pipe 22 is redirected by the pipe line connector 42 to the bottom line 24 of the pipeline, from where the water flows back past the drinking valves 20 to the storage tank 55. While the pump 57 is in operation, the water in the water circulation pipe 22 is in constant motion, namely, also when water is not taken by animals from the watering valves 20. Water flows through the proposed drinking bowl for animals constantly in a closed circuit. If there is not enough water in the storage tank, the pump 45 is turned off by the float switch 59 until there is enough water in the storage tank again.

Due to the amount of water selected by the animals at the watering valves 20, the amount of circulating water decreases over time. As a result, the water level in the storage tank 55 decreases. Then, with the pressure reducing valve 44, water is supplied to the storage tank 55 until a sufficient supply of water is again in the storage tank.

During water circulation, there is a constant exchange of water in the storage tank 55 due to the fact that the pump 57 pumps water from the storage tank 55 into the bypass channel 56 leading to the pipeline line 23, and water from the pipe line 23 again flows into the storage tank 55. Located in the storage tank tank 55 water is irradiated with ultraviolet light UV lamp 62 of the processing device. At the same time, harmful substances such as microorganisms, bacteria and / or fungi are removed from the water. In this case, microbiological treatment of water occurs in the storage tank 55. Through UV treatment, water can not only be disinfected, but sterilization, disinfection and / or oxidation of water can also occur in the storage tank 55. By circulating water through the animal drinker, the water is also constantly updated in the storage tank 55, so that all the water in the animal drinker is continuously irradiated. It is likewise possible to continuously treat the water in another way, for example cooling or heating the water, or also the dosed addition of additives to the water, in particular medicines, nutrients or the like.

To flush the drinking bowl for animals, a water hose is connected to the flushing nozzle 73 of the connector 42 of the pipeline line to drain the flushing water. To the storage tank 55 of the technological unit 43 at the beginning of the drinking bowl for animals, water is supplied by a pressure reducing valve 44 with an unpressed pressure in the pipeline. Then, when washing the drinking bowl for animals, the water serving as washing water enters, bypassing pump 57, with full pressure in the pipeline to both pipelines 23 and 24. Thus, both lines 23 and 24 of the pipelines are simultaneously and simultaneously washed with flushing water. That is, for flushing water flows through lines 23 and 24 of pipelines without circulation. The flush water flows from both pipelines 23 and 24 in the connector 42, so that the flush water leaves the animal drinker from both pipelines 23 and 24 through the flush nozzle 43 of the pipe line connector 42. In addition, when flushing the ventilation pipe 71 is closed.

Claims (19)

1. A drinking bowl for animals, preferably a drinking line, with at least one water supply pipe and several water valves (20) that are attached to the water supply pipe, characterized in that the water supply pipe (22) is made in the form of a water circulation pipe (22) having several parallel water supply lines (23, 24) of the pipeline, which communicate at their ends and at least one of which is attached to the drinking valves (20), and the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline are located in a common, divided at least one partition (79 ... 81), the outer pipe (78). 2. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 1, characterized in that it has two parallel water supply lines (23, 24) of the pipeline. 3. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline run parallel to each other, preferably interconnected, primarily made interconnected. 4. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 1, characterized in that it is equipped with at least one pump (57) for pumping water in the water circulation pipe (22). 5. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 4, characterized in that at least one pump (57) is configured to supply water from a storage tank (55). 6. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 5, characterized in that at least one pump (57) and / or storage tank (55) is attached to the end of the water circulation pipe (22), primarily located at the end of the water circulation pipe (22) the end of the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline, for pumping the current back from the line (24) of the water pipeline to another line (23) of the pipeline. 7. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 5, characterized in that at least one inlet pipe (61) for water from the water supply system is attached to the storage tank (55). 8. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 7, characterized in that a valve is provided in the inlet pipe (61) or in front of the inlet pipe (61), which is preferably configured to be actuated depending on the water level in the storage tank (55 ) 9. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 7, characterized in that a pressure reducing valve (44) is located in front of the inlet pipe (61) to the storage tank (55). 10. Drinking bowl for animals according to claim 5, characterized in that the ends of the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline on the opposite side of the storage tank (55) side of the water circulation pipe (22) are connected with the possibility of a water wire. 11. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 10, characterized in that the water-supplying connection of the pipe lines (23, 24) is provided with ventilation and / or a flushing pipe (73), which, preferably, can be closed if necessary. 12. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 1, characterized in that the water circulation pipe (22) is formed from several sections (31) of the pipeline that are collapsibly connected to each other, while preferably, both connected pipe lines (23, 24) are formed of several sections (34, 35) of pipeline lines that are dismantled interconnected. 13. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 12, characterized in that the sections (34, 35) of the pipeline lines at their neighboring ends are watertightly connected by means of a connecting means, while the connecting means is made collapsible. 14. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one processing device is provided for the water supply pipe (22) for, preferably, microbiological treatment of the water and / or a tempering unit for cooling and / or heating the water and / or the dispenser for adding additives to water, especially nutrients and / or medicines. 15. Drinking bowl for animals according to 14, characterized in that the processing device, dispenser and / or tempering unit attached to the storage tank (55). 16. An animal drinker according to claim 2, characterized in that at least one line (23, 24) of the pipeline has a vertical jumper (25), wherein the jumper (25) is connected as a whole with at least one line (23 , 24) the pipeline, preferably pressed into at least one line (23, 24) of the pipeline in the form of a single whole with it. 17. An animal drinker, preferably a watering line with at least one water supply line (23, 24) of the pipeline and several watering valves (20) attached to at least one pipeline line (23, 24), at least one line ( 23, 24) of the pipeline has a vertical jumper (26), characterized in that the two water lines (23, 24) of the pipeline are interconnected due to the fact that both lines (23, 24) of the pipeline are located at a distance from each other and are interconnected vertical jumper (25), while the lintel (25) and the pipeline lines (23, 24) located on its opposite longitudinal edges are made interconnected as a single whole. 18. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 17, characterized in that the jumper (25) as a whole is connected to the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline, preferably pressed to the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline. 19. A drinking bowl for animals according to claim 17, characterized in that the lines (23, 24) of the pipeline are parallel to each other.

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