Animal husbandry – Confining or housing – Animal display or open work enclosure
Patent
1997-01-23
1998-06-30
Swiatek, Robert P.
Animal husbandry
Confining or housing
Animal display or open work enclosure
119458, A01K 100
Patent
active
057718407
ABSTRACT:
A washer (10) having prewashing, washing, rinsing, and drying stations (12-18) and a first conveyor (20) which transports animal cages (26) through the washer in an open side down orientation. A bedding dispenser (30) has a bedding dispensing station (32) and a second conveyor (40, 48) for transporting the animal cage (26) through the bedding dispensing station (32) in an open side up orientation. A righting device (60, 90, 100) is interposed between the first conveyor (20) and the second conveyor (40, 48). The righting device includes a counter-rotating flip wheel (64, 80, 106) which receives the animal cages from the first conveyor (20), engages a peripheral flange (28) of the cage with a rung (74, 84, 112) of the flip wheel, and pivots the animal cages from the open side down orientation to the open side up orientation on the second conveyor (40, 48).
REFERENCES:
patent: 2840041 (1958-06-01), Fleming
patent: 3942476 (1976-03-01), Napier
BASIL--6000 Series Tunnel Cage Washer Marketing Brochure, Mar. 1992.
BASIL--3600 Series Bedding Dispenser Marketing Brochure, Sep. 1991.
NALGENE--Product Cage Marketing Brochure (no date).
Steris Corporation
Swiatek Robert P.
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