Compositions – Miscellaneous
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-01
2001-02-27
Anthony, Joseph D. (Department: 1714)
Compositions
Miscellaneous
C119S006700, C119S200000, C119S201000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06193902
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
This relates to a method for transport and/or storage, a process for preparing artificial muddy sand used for transport and/or storage of live baits for fishing and a contain for live baits.
2. Description of the Related Art
Recently, availability of various live baits for fishing such as
Perinereis aibuhitensis
Grube have largely depended on import from foreign countries, but a loss of live baits occurring in the course of transport from their habitats to destinations has been noticeable and their surviving rate is said to be as low as in order of 60%. It is important for the live baits to be stored (and/or transported) without deterioration of their freshness. While a method of breeding the live baits in seawater to avoid such deterioration of freshness has been attempted, such method has not been effective to solve the problem. For example, exchange of seawater is troublesome and a period of survival is at most one week. In addition, none of appropriate and simplified methods has been proposed for preparing artificial muddy sand which will be effectively used to transport and/or store the live baits. There has been still another problem such that the live baits creep out from container during transport and/or storage or at a site of fishing, since the live baits have behavior of restoring their vigorous activities at the normal temperature.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the problems as have been described above, it is a first object of the invention to provide a method for transport and/or storage of live baits adapted to alleviate a loss occurring in the course of transport and/or storage and to maintain a freshness of the live baits for a long period.
It is a second object of the invention to provide a method for preparing artificial muddy sand effectively used for transport and/or storage of the live baits.
It is a third object of the invention to provide a container for the live baits which is convenient not only for transport and/storage of the live baits but also convenient to handle it at a site of fishing and adapted to prevent the live baits from creeping out therefrom.
The first object set forth above is achieved, according to a first aspect of the invention, by a method for transport and/or storage of live baits comprising steps of: washing the live baits collected on their habitat with seawater to remove extraneous matter such as muddy sand and then transporting said live baits to a transit station; transporting the muddy sand collected on the habitat of said live baits to the transit station separately of said live baits; packaging, at said transit station, the live baits in containers together with artificial muddy sand containing seashore muddy sand collected on the live baits' native seashore and artificial seawater; and cooling the live baits packaged in said containers and transporting to destinations and/or storing.
Said artificial muddy sand containing artificial seawater is prepared by granulating a mixture of said muddy sand collected on the live baits' native seashore and plant cellulose fiber.
Said artificial muddy sand containing artificial seawater is prepared by adding said mixture of the muddy sand collected on the live baits' native seashore and said plant cellulose fiber with additives such as activated charcoal and granulating this mixture.
Before transported to the transit station and/or destinations, the live baits are left in seawater to discharge excrement's from their body and then the live baits are taken out from seawater to make them discharge an amount of seawater taken in their body.
On the transit station, the live baits are transferred into artificial seawater adjusted to have a same salinity as that of the live bait's native seawater to make the live baits discharge excrement's from their bodies.
Paper product is immersed in artificial seawater to fibrillate said paper product; a mixture of plant cellulose fiber obtained by fibrillation in said artificial seawater and muddy sand of the live baits' native seashore is prepared; artificial muddy sand containing an amount of said artificial seawater is formed from said mixture; and, at the transit station, the live baits are packaged in the container together with said artificial muddy sand.
Said artificial seawater is adjusted to have a same salinity as that of the live baits' native seawater.
The live baits are cooled together with said artificial muddy sand containing artificial seawater to suppress the activity of the live baits.
Said artificial muddy sand is cooled at a same temperature as that of the live baits' native muddy sand.
Said temperature for cooling said artificial muddy sand is 3° C.~9° C.
Said artificial muddy sand is supplemented with an amount of artificial seawater by spraying said artificial muddy sand with the artificial seawater adjusted to have a same salinity as that of the live baits' seawater.
A plurality of the container each containing the live baits are single outer casing at the transit station to transport it to the destination and, at said destination, said containers taken out from said outer casing are cooled or said containers are immediately distributed to the consumers.
The method for transport and/or storage of live baits as has been described above can be summarized as follows:
Transport to the destinations is started only after the live baits have discharged most of excrement's as well as seawater from their bodies. The live baits packaged in the container together with the artificial muddy sand containing a certain amount of the artificial seawater are placed at a temperature sufficiently low to suppress the live baits' activity throughout transport to the destinations or storage. The artificial muddy sand comprises the plant cellulose fiber obtained by fibrillating paper product, the muddy sand of the live baits' native seashore and an appropriate amount of the artificial seawater. The live bait containers arriving at the destinations are stored at a low temperature or immediately distributed to the consumers. The live baits collected in this manner at the transit station can be then efficiently transported and/or stored without any deterioration of their freshness.
The second object set forth above is achieved, according to a second aspect of the invention, by a method for making artificial muddy sand used to transport and/or store live baits comprising steps of: immersing paper product in artificial seawater to fibrillate said paper product; preparing a mixture of plant cellulose fiber of said paper product fibrillated in said seawater and muddy sand of the live baits' native seashore; and forming granular artificial muddy sand containing an amount of seawater from said mixture.
Said step of fibrillating paper product comprise a step of immersing paper product in the artificial seawater adjusted to have a same salinity as that of the live baits' native seawater to fibrillate said paper product.
The plant cellulose fiber obtained by immersing paper product in the artificial seawater for fibrillation has a high water-holding ability and use of the muddy sand gathered on the live baits' native seashore can reproduce a living environment approximating to the live baits' native seashore. The mixing ratio of the artificial seawater, the plant cellulose fiber and the seashore muddy sand may be appropriately adjusted in order to obtain the artificial muddy sand suitable for transport and/storage of the live baits.
The third object set forth above is achieved, according to a third aspect of the invention, by a container for live baits adapted to contain the live baits together with the artificial muddy sand comprising the muddy sand of the live baits native seashore, the plant cellulose fiber and a certain amount of artificial seawater, said artificial muddy sand being deformable, incompletely solidified and present in the form of grains each smaller than an average diameter of the live bait so that the
Anthony Joseph D.
E & T Kabushiki Kaisha
Ladas & Parry
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