CN109122399B

CN109122399B - Novel incubator

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Publication number: CN109122399B
Application number: CN201811367904.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李少群
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Ningbo Yuanzhicube Energy Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2018-11-16
Filing date: 2018-11-16
Publication date: 2021-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 2038-11-16
Also published as: CN109122399A

Abstract

The invention discloses a novel incubator, which comprises: the incubator comprises an incubator, a plurality of pairs of egg tray placing blocks, a plurality of egg trays and a lifting device, wherein the egg trays are eccentrically placed on the egg tray placing blocks, the egg trays are jacked by the lifting device to turn over, the egg trays are automatically turned over reversely by means of the self gravity of the egg tray parts, the lifting device is used for controlling the speed of the reverse turning over of the egg trays, the turning over of the egg trays is stable and reliable, and in addition, the temperature and humidity in the incubator are kept stable as much as possible by means of folded plates and heat insulation plates in the lifting device. The invention realizes the function of turning eggs inside the small incubator by arranging a plurality of pairs of egg tray laying blocks and lifting devices in the incubator.

Description

Novel incubator

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of poultry egg hatching equipment. More particularly, the present invention relates to a novel incubator.

Background

The incubator is a machine for artificially simulating the conditions of temperature, humidity, egg turning and the like of the maternal nature of a twin animal to develop fertilized eggs into life after a certain period of time, and is mainly used for hatching egg incubation, embryo development, breeding farms, hatching factories, chicken farms, biological incubation, embryo incubation, poultry incubation and the like.

However, the existing hatchers with the egg turning function are large hatchers designed for large-scale farms, small hatchers for small-scale experiments or individual users do not have the egg turning function, and if the small hatchers are used for hatching, manual egg turning operation is required, so that the working efficiency is low, and meanwhile, the temperature in the hatchers is easy to fluctuate greatly, and the hatching effect of eggs is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present invention is to solve at least the above problems and to provide at least the advantages described later.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a novel incubator capable of turning eggs for use in small scale incubation, where small scale means that the number of eggs incubated per time does not exceed 1000.

To achieve these objects and other advantages in accordance with the purpose of the invention, there is provided a novel incubator comprising:

the incubator is internally provided with a partition plate parallel to the door of the incubator so as to partition the incubator into an incubator chamber passing through the door of the incubator and a device chamber far away from the door of the incubator, and the partition plate is provided with a plurality of horizontal strip-shaped first through holes at intervals from top to bottom;

a plurality of pairs of egg tray laying blocks which are all arranged in the incubator, each pair of egg tray laying blocks are respectively arranged on the inner walls of the two sides of the incubator door and are at the same height and opposite in position, the egg tray laying blocks are evenly arranged at intervals from top to bottom, each egg tray laying block is in a cuboid shape, each egg tray laying block comprises a pair of opposite side surfaces of a long edge, a through shaft hole is formed in the center, a plurality of pairs of fixed shafts are arranged on the inner walls of the two sides of the incubator door, each egg tray laying block is rotationally connected to one fixed shaft through the shaft hole, the central connecting line of the fixed shafts on the inner wall of the same incubator is vertical, two limiting blocks are arranged on the inner wall of the incubator below each egg tray laying block, the two limiting blocks are respectively arranged at the two sides of the fixed shaft of each egg tray laying block and are at the same height on the inner wall of the incubator, when each egg tray laying block rotates from the state that the long edge is horizontal to an angle smaller than 45 degrees, one of the two limiting blocks props against the lower edge of one end of the egg tray laying block, and a rectangular groove is formed in the edge of the long edge of the upper surface of each egg tray laying block, which is far away from the inner wall of the incubator;

the egg trays are placed on a pair of egg tray placing blocks, a pair of opposite edges of the lower surface of each egg tray are respectively provided with a fixed block matched with the rectangular groove, when the egg trays are placed on the egg tray placing blocks, the fixed blocks are embedded into the rectangular grooves, a central connecting line of the two fixed blocks on each egg tray is parallel to the other pair of opposite edges of the egg tray, the distance between the edge of the other pair of opposite edges of the egg tray, far away from a door of the incubator, and the central connecting line of the two fixed blocks is larger than the distance between the edge of the other pair of opposite edges of the egg tray, close to the door of the incubator, and the central connecting line of the two fixed blocks, each egg tray is provided with a plurality of square holes in a rectangular array, and a square cup body is fixedly arranged in each square hole to store eggs;

elevating gear, it includes:

a pair of main rods, which are vertically arranged in the device chamber and are close to the partition plate, the plane of the main rods is parallel to the partition plate, the main rods are connected into a whole through a plurality of horizontal first connecting rods, the main rods are just opposite to the wall surface of the partition plate, a plurality of pairs of horizontal supporting rods are arranged at even intervals from top to bottom, each pair of supporting rods are respectively arranged on the main rods and are at the same height, each pair of supporting rods penetrate through a first through hole and extend to the hatching chamber, the tail end of each supporting rod is arranged between two rows of square cups and is in contact with the lower surface of the egg tray, the wall surface of the upper end of each main rod, which is far away from the partition plate, is connected with a horizontal second connecting rod, the tail end of each second connecting rod is connected with a lantern ring, two vertical sliding pipes are arranged at the top of the device chamber, the two lantern rings are respectively sleeved on the two sliding pipes in a sliding manner, and the wall surface of the lower end of each main rod, which is far away from the partition plate, is connected with a roller wheel, the roller rotates on a plane parallel to the separation plate;

the two special-shaped cams are respectively arranged below the rollers at the lower ends of the main rods and are abutted against the peripheral surfaces of the special-shaped cams;

the two stepping motors are arranged in the device chamber, and the output shaft of each stepping motor is connected with the rotating shaft of a special-shaped cam so as to drive the special-shaped cam to rotate;

when the roller is positioned in the concave part of the special-shaped cam, the support rod is positioned at the lower edge of the first through hole, the lower edge of one end, away from the incubator door, of the egg tray laying block is abutted against a limiting block, when the roller is positioned in the convex part of the special-shaped cam, the support rod is positioned at the upper edge of the first through hole, and the lower edge of one end, close to the incubator door, of the egg tray laying block is abutted against another limiting block;

the two folded plates are in a long strip shape, the cross sections of the two folded plates are in an L shape, the two folded plates are respectively connected to the vertical edges of the plate surfaces of the partition plates, which are far away from the door of the incubator, so that a pair of clamping grooves with horizontally opposite notches are formed together with the partition plates, and the distance between the free ends of the two folded plates is larger than the distance between the farthest edges of the free ends of the pair of supporting rods;

the heat insulating board, it sets up in a pair of draw-in groove and one side hugs closely with the division board, the heat insulating board with draw-in groove sliding connection, the heat insulating board upper end is higher than the first through-hole upper edge of superiors, the heat insulating board lower extreme is higher than the first through-hole lower limb of lower floor, be provided with on the heat insulating board with many to the cross sectional shape of branch and the position corresponding many to the second through-hole to make many pass from many to the second through-hole respectively to branch, work as branch is in when the lower limb of first through-hole, the heat insulating board upper end still is higher than the first through-hole upper edge of superiors, work as branch is in when the upper edge of first through-hole, the heat insulating board lower extreme still is less than the first through-hole lower limb of lower floor.

Preferably, a circle of shallow grooves matched with the width of the roller wheel is arranged on the circumferential surface of the special-shaped cam to prevent the roller from falling off.

Preferably, the bottom surface and the inner wall in the square cup body are provided with elastic buffer material layers to prevent the eggs from being cracked.

Preferably, the elastic buffer material layer is a sponge layer.

Preferably, a plurality of through air holes are formed in the bottom surface of the square cup body and the elastic buffer material layer.

Preferably, the limiting block is made of elastic rubber so as to reduce vibration of the egg tray placing block when the egg tray placing block is in contact with the limiting block.

The invention at least comprises the following beneficial effects: the invention realizes the function of turning eggs inside the small incubator by arranging a plurality of pairs of egg tray placing blocks and the lifting device in the incubator, particularly, the lifting device is matched with the stepping motor by using the special-shaped cam, so that the main rod is lifted and lowered in different time periods, the egg tray automatically turns over under the action of gravity in the lowering process of the main rod, the egg tray is prevented from turning over too fast under the action of the supporting rods, and the whole egg turning process is stable. In addition, the invention is also provided with a folded plate and a heat insulation plate, so that no matter where the support rod is positioned in the first through hole, the heat insulation plate moves along with the support rod and completely covers other parts in the first through hole, thereby effectively preventing heat and water vapor in the hatching chamber from being transferred to the device chamber through the through hole, not only keeping the stability of the environment in the hatching chamber, but also preventing a stepping motor in the device chamber from being short-circuited and burnt out due to the influence of the water vapor transferred from the hatching chamber.

Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a front view of the divider plate, egg flat resting blocks, egg flat and support rods according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a front view of the primary shaft, the strut, and the first link in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a top view of the shaped cam according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a front view of an egg tray, a retaining block, and a square cup according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a top view of a flap, heat shield, primary shaft and post according to one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a front view of an insulated panel according to one embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings so that those skilled in the art can implement the invention by referring to the description text.

It should be noted that in the description of the present invention, the terms "lateral", "longitudinal", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", etc. indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referred device or element must have a specific orientation, be constructed and operated in a specific orientation, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present invention.

As shown in fig. 1 to 7, the present invention provides a novel incubator, comprising:

the incubator 1 is internally provided with a partition plate 2 parallel to the door of the incubator 1 so as to divide the incubator 1 into an incubation chamber close to the door of the incubator 1 and a device chamber far away from the door of the incubator 1, the partition plate 2 is provided with a plurality of horizontal strip-shaped first through holes 3 at regular intervals from top to bottom, and of course, other devices such as a temperature adjusting device, a moderate adjusting device, an air circulating device, a water spraying device and the like are also arranged in the incubator 1, and the devices are all the prior art, so that detailed description is omitted, and the arrangement positions of the devices can be arranged in the incubation chamber according to actual requirements;

a plurality of pairs of egg tray placing blocks 4 which are all arranged in the incubator, each pair of egg tray placing blocks 4 is respectively arranged on the inner walls of two sides of a box door of the incubator 1 and is at the same height and opposite in position, the egg tray placing blocks 4 are evenly arranged at intervals from top to bottom, each egg tray placing block 4 is in a cuboid shape, each egg tray placing block 4 comprises a pair of opposite side surfaces of a long edge, a through shaft hole is formed in the center of the long edge, a plurality of pairs of fixed shafts are arranged on the inner walls of two sides of the box door of the incubator 1, each egg tray placing block 4 is rotatably connected to one fixed shaft through the shaft hole, the central connecting line of the fixed shafts on the inner wall of the same incubator 1 is vertical, two limiting blocks 5 are arranged on the inner wall of the incubator 1 below each egg tray placing block 4, the two limiting blocks 5 are respectively arranged at two sides of the fixed shaft of each egg tray placing block 4 and are at the same height on the inner wall of the incubator 1, when each egg tray placing block 4 rotates from a state that the long edge is horizontal to be less than 45 degrees, one of the two limiting blocks 5 props against the lower edge of one end of the egg tray placing block 4, a rectangular groove 6 is formed in the edge of the long edge of the upper surface of each egg tray placing block 4, which is far away from the inner wall of the incubator 1, and the rectangular groove 6 is a groove with a rectangular horizontal section and a rectangular vertical section;

a plurality of egg trays 7, wherein the egg trays 7 are all plate bodies with uniform density, each egg tray 7 is placed on a pair of egg tray placing blocks 4, a pair of opposite edges of the lower surface of each egg tray 7 are provided with fixing blocks 8 matched with the rectangular grooves 6, when the egg trays 7 are placed on the egg tray placing blocks 4, the fixing blocks 8 are embedded into the rectangular grooves 6, the central connecting line of the two fixing blocks 8 on each egg tray 7 is parallel to the other pair of opposite edges of the egg tray 7, the distance between the edge of the other pair of opposite edges of the egg tray 7 far away from the door of the incubator 1 and the central connecting line of the two fixing blocks 8 is larger than the distance between the edge of the door of the incubator 1 and the central connecting line of the two fixing blocks 8, each egg tray 7 is provided with a plurality of square holes in a rectangular array, a square cup body 9 is fixedly arranged in each square hole to store eggs, the specific size of the square cup body 9 can be set according to the size of the eggs to be incubated, only when eggs can be completely placed in the square cup bodies 9 and turning spaces are kept on the upper portions of the eggs, the square cup bodies 9 are uniformly distributed on the egg tray 7, and after the eggs are placed in the square cup bodies 9, the portion, located on the right side of the central connecting line of the two fixing blocks 8, of the egg tray 7 is heavier, and the egg tray placing block 4 is automatically pressed to rotate towards the right side until the egg tray placing block abuts against the limiting block 5 below the right side of the egg tray placing block 4;

elevating gear, it includes:

a pair of main rods 10 vertically arranged in the device chamber and close to the partition plate 2, a plane of the pair of main rods 10 is parallel to the partition plate 2, the pair of main rods 10 are connected into a whole through a plurality of horizontal first connecting rods 11, the pair of main rods 10 are just opposite to the wall surface of the partition plate 2 and are provided with a plurality of pairs of horizontal supporting rods 12 at even intervals from top to bottom, the supporting rods 12 can be rod bodies or strip-shaped plate bodies as shown in figures 1-2, one end of each supporting rod is connected with the main rods 10, each pair of supporting rods 12 are respectively arranged on the pair of main rods 10 and are at the same height, each pair of supporting rods 12 pass through a first through hole 3 and extend to an incubation chamber, the tail end of each supporting rod 12 is arranged between two rows of square cups 9 and is contacted with the lower surface of the egg tray 7, the wall surface of the upper end of each main rod 10, which is far away from the partition plate 2, is connected with a horizontal second connecting rod 13, and the tail end of each second connecting rod 13 is connected with a lantern ring 14, the top of the device chamber is provided with two vertical sliding pipes 15, two lantern rings 14 are respectively sleeved on the two sliding pipes 15 in a sliding manner, so that each main rod 10 is guided and limited by the lantern rings 14 and cannot be easily deviated, the wall surface of the lower end of each main rod 10, which is far away from the partition plate 2, is connected with a roller 16, namely the wheel shaft of the roller 16 is horizontally connected to the wall surface of the lower end of the main rod 10, which is far away from the partition plate 2, and the roller 16 rotates on a plane parallel to the partition plate 2;

each special-shaped cam 17 is provided with four convex parts and four concave parts in a cross shape, the convex parts and the concave parts are circular arcs, the joints of the convex parts and the concave parts are tangent, the two special-shaped cams 17 are parallel to the partition plate 2, the two special-shaped cams 17 are respectively arranged below rollers 16 at the lower ends of the main rods 10, and the rollers 16 are abutted against the peripheral surfaces of the special-shaped cams 17;

two step motors 18 which are arranged in the device chamber, wherein the output shaft of each step motor 18 is connected with the rotating shaft of a special-shaped cam so as to drive the special-shaped cam to rotate, a shaft coupling is also arranged between the output shaft of the step motor 18 and the rotating shaft of the special-shaped cam 17, the rotating shaft of the special-shaped cam 17 is also supported by a bearing seat, and the angle of each rotation of the step motor 18 just meets the condition that the roller 16 slides from the convex part on the special-shaped cam 17 to the concave part or the roller 16 rises from the concave part on the special-shaped cam 17 to the convex part;

when the roller 16 is positioned in the concave part of the special-shaped cam 17, the support rod 12 is positioned at the lower edge of the first through hole 3, the lower edge of one end, away from the door of the incubator 1, of the egg tray resting block 4 is abutted against one limiting block 5, when the roller 16 is positioned in the protruding part of the special-shaped cam 17, the support rod 12 is positioned at the upper edge of the first through hole 3, and the lower edge of one end, close to the door of the incubator 1, of the egg tray resting block 4 is abutted against the other limiting block 5;

the two folded plates 19 are long-strip-shaped, the sections of the two folded plates are L-shaped, the two folded plates 19 are respectively connected to the vertical edges of the partition plates 2 departing from the plate surfaces of the doors of the incubator 1 so as to form a pair of clamping grooves with horizontally opposite notches together with the partition plates 2, the distance between the free ends of the two folded plates 19 is greater than the distance between the farthest edges of the free ends of the pair of supporting rods 12, and therefore the pair of supporting rods 12 can freely penetrate into the first through holes 3 from the free ends of the two folded plates 19;

a heat insulation plate 20 disposed in the pair of slots and having one side closely attached to the partition plate 2, the heat insulation plate 20 being slidably connected to the slots, the upper end of the heat insulation plate 20 being higher than the upper edge of the uppermost first through hole 3, the lower end of the heat insulation plate 20 being higher than the lower edge of the lowermost first through hole 3, the heat insulation plate 20 being provided with a plurality of pairs of second through holes 21 corresponding to the cross-sectional shapes and positions of the plurality of pairs of support bars 12, so that the plurality of pairs of support bars 12 pass through the plurality of pairs of second through holes 21, respectively, when the support bars 12 are located at the lower edge of the first through holes 3, the upper end of the heat insulation plate 20 is still higher than the upper edge of the uppermost first through hole 3, and when the support bars 12 are located at the upper edge of the first through holes 3, the lower end of the heat insulation plate 20 is still lower than the lower edge of the lowermost first through hole 3, so that the heat insulation plate 20 moves together with the support bars 12 no matter where the support bars 12 are located, while completely covering the other portions of the first through-hole 3.

In the use process of the embodiment, the egg trays 7 are firstly taken out one by one from the incubator 1, eggs to be incubated are placed in the square cup bodies 9, the small ends of the eggs are preferably placed downwards in the square cup bodies 9, then the egg trays 7 are placed on the egg tray placing blocks 4, after temperature and humidity parameters are set according to egg incubation conditions, incubation is started, because the parts of the egg trays 7, which are positioned on the right side of the central connecting line of the two fixing blocks 8, are heavy, the lower surfaces of the heavy parts of the egg trays 7 are always abutted against the supporting rods 12, when eggs are required to be turned, the rollers 16 at the lower ends of the main rods 10 only need to be started, and slide to the concave parts from the convex parts on the special-shaped cams 17 or ascend to the convex parts from the concave parts on the special-shaped cams 17. When the roller 16 at the lower end of the main rod 10 slides from the convex part on the special-shaped cam 17 to the concave part, the main rod 10 moves downwards, the branch rod 12 on the main rod 10 moves to the lower edge of the first through hole 3, the part of the egg tray 7, which is positioned on one side of the right side of the central connecting line of the two fixed blocks 8, presses the egg tray placing block 4 to rotate rightwards under the action of gravity until the lower edge of one end, away from the door of the incubator 1, of the egg tray placing block 4 is abutted against a limiting block 5, and the eggs are turned to be in a state of inclining rightwards from an initial state in the; when the roller 16 at the lower end of the main rod 10 rises from the concave part to the convex part on the special-shaped cam 17, the main rod 10 also moves upwards, the branch rod 12 on the main rod 10 moves to the upper edge of the first through hole 3, the part of the egg tray 7, which is positioned on the right side of the central connecting line of the two fixed blocks 8, rotates leftwards under the action of upward jacking of the branch rod 12 until the lower edge of one end of the egg tray placing block 4, which is close to the door of the incubator 1, is abutted against the other limiting block 5, and the eggs are turned to be in a leftward inclined state from an initial state in the square cup body 9. Of course, the start and stop of the stepping motor 18 can be manually operated according to the incubation time, and the motor control module can also be used for controlling, so that the stepping motor 18 can be started and stopped again after a preset time interval, and the motor control module can be realized through the existing single chip microcomputer, belongs to the conventional technology, and is not described in detail.

Because the above-mentioned embodiment has realized the function of the inside egg turning of small-size incubator through set up many pairs of egg tray shelves block 4 and elevating gear in incubator 1, especially use special-shaped cam 17 and step motor 18 cooperation among the elevating gear for mobile jib 10 rises and descends and go on by the time quantum, and mobile jib 10 is at the in-process that descends, and egg tray 7 is by the automatic egg tray 7 that overturns of action of gravity, avoids egg tray 7 to overturn too urgently under the effect of branch 12, and whole egg turning process is steady. In addition, when the supporting rod 12 moves up and down along with the main rod 10, the heat insulation board 20 can also slide up and down along with the supporting rod 12 in a pair of opposite clamping grooves, because when the supporting rod 12 is positioned at the lower edge of the first through hole 3, the upper end of the heat insulation board 20 is still higher than the upper edge of the uppermost layer of the first through hole 3, when the supporting rod 12 is positioned at the upper edge of the first through hole 3, the lower end of the heat insulation board 20 is still lower than the lower edge of the lowermost layer of the first through hole 3, namely, no matter where the supporting rod 12 is positioned at the through hole, the heat insulation board 20 can completely cover other parts in the first through hole 3, so that heat and water vapor in the hatching chamber can be effectively prevented from being transferred to the device chamber through the through hole, the stability of the environment in the hatching chamber is maintained, and the short circuit burnout caused by the influence of the water vapor transferred from the stepping motor 18 in the hatching chamber is also avoided.

In another embodiment, a circle of shallow grooves matched with the wheel width of the roller 16 is arranged on the peripheral surface of the special-shaped cam 17, and the shallow grooves generally mean grooves with the groove depth not exceeding the radius of the roller 16, so that the roller 16 can only roll in the shallow grooves on the peripheral surface of the special-shaped cam 17, and the roller 16 is effectively prevented from falling off.

In another embodiment, the bottom surface and the inner wall of the square cup body 9 are provided with elastic buffer material layers, although the incubator of the invention is relatively stable and slow in the egg-turning machine, the egg shell is still very fragile, and the elastic buffer material layers can further effectively prevent the egg from being cracked.

In another embodiment, the elastic buffer material layer is a sponge layer, and the sponge layer is soft and breathable and is a more ideal elastic buffer material layer.

In another embodiment, a plurality of air holes are formed on the bottom surface of the square cup body 9 and the elastic buffer material layer, so that the air circulation of the part, close to the bottom, of the eggs in the square cup body 9 during the hatching process can be enhanced, carbon dioxide gas accumulated in the square cup body 9 during the hatching process of the eggs is discharged, and the hatching rate of the eggs is improved.

In another embodiment, the limiting block 5 is made of elastic rubber to reduce vibration when the egg tray placing block 4 contacts with the limiting block 5.

While embodiments of the invention have been described above, it is not limited to the applications set forth in the description and the embodiments, which are fully applicable in various fields of endeavor to which the invention pertains, and further modifications may readily be made by those skilled in the art, it being understood that the invention is not limited to the details shown and described herein without departing from the general concept defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. Novel hatch machine, its characterized in that includes:

the incubator is internally provided with a partition plate parallel to the door of the incubator so as to partition the incubator into an incubator chamber close to the door of the incubator and a device chamber far away from the door of the incubator, and the partition plate is provided with a plurality of horizontal strip-shaped first through holes at regular intervals from top to bottom;

elevating gear, it includes:

2. A novel incubator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said shaped cam is provided with a circumferential surface with a shallow groove matching the width of said roller wheel to prevent the roller from falling off.

3. A novel incubator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base and inner walls of said square cup are provided with a layer of resilient cushioning material to prevent cracking of eggs.

4. A novel hatching machine as claimed in claim 3 wherein said layer of resilient cushioning material is a sponge layer.

5. A novel incubator as claimed in claim 3, wherein said square cup bottom surface and said resilient cushioning material layer are provided with a plurality of vent holes therethrough.

6. A novel incubator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said stop blocks are of resilient rubber material to reduce vibration when the egg tray resting blocks contact the stop blocks.