Animal husbandry – Watering or liquid feed device – Fountains and troughs
Patent
1986-10-14
1988-08-23
Swiatek, Robert P.
Animal husbandry
Watering or liquid feed device
Fountains and troughs
A01K 2900
Patent
active
047652780
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a catching apparatus for poultry, in particular for chicks, comprising a circuit for pneumatic transport of the poultry, provided with a tube of a diameter suitable for pneumatic transport of the poultry through the tube, said tube having a catching end, and a delivery end, respectively, for the poultry, and with means connected to the tube for producing an air suction flow in the tube in the direction of the catching end towards the delivery end.
Such an apparatus is known from British Patent No. 1,388,613. This prior art apparatus has the object to transport the poultry caught therewith in a compartmentalized container arranged on the loading floor of a truck to the eventual destination, mostly the slaughter-house. The supply of the poultry to the compartments in the container takes place pneumatically by means of a transport tube. A system is used wherein the poultry to be transported is caught by sucking the animals into the tube wherein an air suction flow is maintained and by pneumatically transporting these animals directly to the container under the influence of the air flow, delivering them to the respective compartments, to which the tube is detachably coupled. The speed at which the poultry exits from the tube is essentially equal to the transport speed through the tube.
It is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus of the above described type, wherein, however, the animals are loaded not in a container, but in transport boxes having accommodation for a limited number of animals which are transported in that form to the destination, such as the slaughter-house, said boxes being stacked onto each other and arranged on the loading floor of e.g. a truck. In particular, it is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus enabling to supply the animals at a controllable speed, in particular a reduced speed relative to the transport speed through the tube, to the transport boxes.
The invention is characterized in that the circuit comprises a suction box having one or more walls to be opened, which suction box is connected to the means for producing the air suction flow and within which the delivery end of the tube is provided, while the suction box contains a loading place for loading a poultry transport box with the pneumatically transported poultry.
According to a further embodiment of the invention, the apparatus comprises control means for the air flow speed in the form of one or more bypasses, the one end of which is connected to a tube portion situated ahead of the suction chamber and the other end terminates in the suction chamber beyond the loading place.
Preferably, the walls of the suction box to be opened are connectable to transport means for the separate supply, and discharge, respectively, of the poultry transport boxes to and from, respectively, the suction box.
In connection with the embodiment indicated in the preceding paragraph, it is furthermore highly advantageous to design the apparatus in such a manner that the tube divides into two branches, the delivery ends thereof terminating each individually in either of the two suction boxes, while adjacent the branching point the tube is fitted with collapsible direction flaps for guiding the pneumatically supplied poultry to each of the suction boxes. Thus, in spite of a charge-wise fill-up of the animals, nevertheless a continuous capture of the animals has become possible.
One embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of the arrangement of the apparatus according to the invention within the entire system of the capture of the animals to be transported, the loading thereof in transport boxes and the supply to and stacking on the loading floor of a truck of the filled-up transport boxes;
FIG. 2 more in particular is a top view of an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention.
In the drawing, 1 represents the catching apparatus with the transport tub
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Swiatek Robert P.
Technisch Bureau Boertien
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