CN111771760A

CN111771760A - Egg picking device

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Publication number: CN111771760A
Application number: CN202010682994.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 王明; 刘新; 平阳; 张倩; 胡雁翔; 王一罡; 孙利鑫
Original assignee: Beijing Agricom Network Technology Co ltd; Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
Current assignee: Beijing Agricom Network Technology Co ltd; Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
Priority date: 2020-07-15
Filing date: 2020-07-15
Publication date: 2020-10-16

Abstract

The invention provides an egg collecting device which comprises a box body and an egg collecting chamber detachably arranged in the box body, wherein an egg laying nest and a conveying pipeline are arranged in the egg collecting chamber, the egg laying nest is in a conical structure, a wide opening part of the conical structure is positioned at the top of the egg collecting chamber, a narrow opening part of the conical structure is connected with a first end of the conveying pipeline, and a second end of the conveying pipeline is positioned in the egg collecting chamber. The egg laying nest is arranged in the egg collecting chamber, and the egg laying nest and the egg collecting chamber are communicated through a conveying pipeline to realize the separation of the egg laying nest and the egg collecting chamber. The chicken can lay eggs in the egg laying nest, and the eggs slide into the conveying pipeline under the action of self gravity through the conical structure of the egg laying nest and are conveyed into the egg collecting chamber through the conveying pipeline. In this way, eggs are not accumulated in the egg laying nest, the time for which the eggs are hatched by a plurality of chickens is reduced, and the shelf life of the eggs is improved. The automatic egg spreading device can automatically separate, count, weigh and collect newly-laid eggs, and the automatic egg spreading device is used for luring chickens to find food from the chicken coops, driving the chickens in an indirect mode and improving the utilization rate of the chicken coops.

Description

Egg picking device

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of poultry breeding equipment, in particular to an egg picking device.

Background

In free-range or flat-range chicken farms, laying nests are often designed to reduce the amount of work required to collect eggs from free laying. At present, most of egg laying nests adopt groove type structures, light and soft materials are paved in the egg laying nests, and chickens can lay eggs in the egg laying nests in turn. However, if not in time receiving and picking up, the egg can constantly gather in the chicken nest, and same egg can be hatched when laying eggs in the groveling nest by many different chickens, and the shelf life of egg can be influenced to a great extent when the egg is in higher temperature for a long time. In addition, the chicken can habitually lie prone after laying eggs, and the laying efficiency of the chicken flocks can be influenced if the chicken occupies the chicken nest for a long time. In addition, the eggs laid by the free-range chickens are gathered together, so that the eggs cannot correspond to the chickens one to one, the egg weight and the egg laying time cannot be recorded, and more data support cannot be provided for egg laying performance analysis and variety breeding of the chickens.

Disclosure of Invention

Aiming at the defects in the prior art, the embodiment of the invention provides an egg collecting device, which can separate an egg laying nest from an egg collecting chamber so as to reduce the time for hatching eggs by a plurality of chickens and further improve the quality guarantee period of the eggs.

According to an embodiment of the invention, an egg collecting device is provided, which comprises a box body and an egg collecting chamber detachably mounted in the box body, wherein an egg laying nest and a conveying pipeline are arranged in the egg collecting chamber, the egg laying nest is in a conical structure, a wide opening part of the conical structure is positioned at the top of the egg collecting chamber, a narrow opening part of the conical structure is connected with a first end of the conveying pipeline, and a second end of the conveying pipeline is positioned in the egg collecting chamber.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the conveying pipe is configured as a spiral structure and the second end of the conveying pipe is closer to the floor of the egg collecting chamber than the first end.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the floor of the egg collecting chamber is configured as an inclined plate having a first corner and a second corner opposite to each other, the first corner and the second corner being configured as the highest point and the lowest point, respectively, of the inclined plate in the height direction of the egg collecting device, the second end of the conveying duct being arranged towards the first corner.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the bottom plate surface of the egg collecting chamber is paved with an anti-skid plastic pad, and the inner side wall of the egg collecting chamber is provided with an anti-collision pad.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the egg production device further comprises a detection system comprising an RFID identifier and a weight sensor, wherein the RFID identifier is arranged at the narrow mouth position of the egg laying nest and the weight sensor is arranged in the conveying pipe.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the detection system further comprises: the A/D conversion module is electrically connected with the weight sensor and is used for converting the analog signal output by the weight sensor into a digital signal; the processor is electrically connected with the A/D conversion module and the RFID identifier and is used for receiving the digital signal and the identity information of the target animal identified by the RFID identifier; and the gateway module is used for connecting the processor to a data center in a wireless mode.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the egg collecting device further comprises a feeder arranged on the inner wall of the top plate of the box body, and the feeder comprises: the grain storage chamber is arranged on the inner wall of the top plate; the food guide groove is arranged at the bottom of the grain storage room; the baffle, the baffle sets up store up the grain room with lead between the trough, the baffle install with the driver that the treater electricity is connected, the driver is based on the drive signal drive of treater the baffle removes, so that lead the trough with store up grain room intercommunication or partition.

According to an embodiment of the invention, the egg-collecting device further comprises a door body pivotally connected to the box body, the door body being pivotable between a closed position closing the box body and an open position opening the box body, wherein the door body forms a ramp for the target animal to enter into the box body in the open position, the feeder is arranged on the same side as the door body and the outlet of the food guide chute is oriented towards the door body in the open position.

According to the embodiment of the invention, the box body is divided into an upper layer area and a lower layer area along the height direction, the egg collecting chamber is detachably mounted in the lower layer area, the feeder is positioned in the upper layer area, and the door body is connected with the upper layer area.

According to the embodiment of the invention, a handle is arranged at the outer top of the box body, and a plurality of universal wheels with calipers are arranged at the outer bottom of the box body, wherein the universal wheels are detachably connected with the outer bottom of the box body.

In the egg collecting device provided by the embodiment of the invention, the egg laying nest is arranged in the egg collecting chamber and is communicated with the egg laying nest through the conveying pipeline, so that the egg laying nest is separated from the egg collecting chamber. When the egg collecting device is used, the chickens can lay eggs in the egg laying nests, and the laid eggs slide into the conveying pipeline under the action of self gravity through the conical structures of the egg laying nests and are further conveyed into the egg collecting chamber through the conveying pipeline. In this way, eggs produced by the chickens are not gathered in the egg laying nest, thereby reducing the time during which the eggs are hatched by a plurality of chickens, thereby improving the shelf life of the eggs.

Additional aspects and advantages of the invention will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural view of an embodiment of an egg production device of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of an integral module of the egg production device of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of the working flow of the egg collecting device.

Reference numerals:

100: an egg picking device; 102: a box body; 104: an egg collecting chamber; 106: laying eggs; 108: a delivery conduit; 110: an RFID identifier; 112: a weight sensor; 114: an A/D conversion module; 116: a processor; 118: a gateway module; 120: a data center; 122: a feeder; 124: a grain storage room; 126: a food guide groove; 128: a baffle plate; 130: a PLC module; 132: a door body; 134: a handle; 136: a universal wheel; 138: a timer.

Detailed Description

The embodiments of the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the drawings and examples. The following examples are intended to illustrate the invention but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, it should be noted that the terms "center", "longitudinal", "lateral", "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience in describing the embodiments of the present invention and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the embodiments of the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless explicitly stated or limited otherwise, the terms "connected" and "connected" are to be interpreted broadly, and may be, for example, fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. Specific meanings of the above terms in the embodiments of the present invention can be understood in specific cases by those of ordinary skill in the art.

In embodiments of the invention, unless expressly stated or limited otherwise, the first feature "on" or "under" the second feature may be directly contacting the first and second features or indirectly contacting the first and second features through intervening media. Also, a first feature "on," "over," and "above" a second feature may be directly or diagonally above the second feature, or may simply indicate that the first feature is at a higher level than the second feature. A first feature being "under," "below," and "beneath" a second feature may be directly under or obliquely under the first feature, or may simply mean that the first feature is at a lesser elevation than the second feature.

In the description herein, references to the description of the term "one embodiment," "some embodiments," "an example," "a specific example," or "some examples," etc., mean that a particular feature, structure, material, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment or example is included in at least one embodiment or example of an embodiment of the invention. In this specification, the schematic representations of the terms used above are not necessarily intended to refer to the same embodiment or example. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, materials, or characteristics described may be combined in any suitable manner in any one or more embodiments or examples. Furthermore, various embodiments or examples and features of different embodiments or examples described in this specification can be combined and combined by one skilled in the art without contradiction.

Referring now to fig. 1-3, a schematic implementation of an egg candling apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. It should be understood that the following description is only exemplary of the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the present invention in any way.

As shown in fig. 1, an egg-picking device 100 is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention. The egg harvesting device 100 includes a housing 102 and an egg collection chamber 104. Wherein an egg collecting chamber 104 is detachably mountable in the housing 102, and an egg laying nest 106 and a conveying pipe 108 may be provided in the egg collecting chamber 104. Specifically, as shown in fig. 1, the egg laying nest 106 may be configured as a conical structure with a wide mouth at the top of the egg collection chamber 104 and a narrow mouth connected to a first end of the delivery conduit 108, and a second end of the delivery conduit 108 located in the egg collection chamber 104.

In the egg collecting device 100 provided by the embodiment of the invention, the egg laying nest 106 is arranged in the egg collecting chamber 104 and is communicated with the egg collecting chamber 104 through the conveying pipeline 108, so that the egg laying nest 106 is separated from the egg collecting chamber 104. In use, the chicken will lay eggs in the laying nest 106, and the laid eggs slide under their own weight via the conical structure of the laying nest 106 into the conveying pipe 108 and are further conveyed through the conveying pipe 108 into the egg collecting chamber 104. In this way, eggs produced by the chickens are not accumulated in the egg laying nest 106, thereby reducing the time during which the eggs are hatched by a plurality of chickens, thereby increasing the shelf life of the eggs.

It should be understood herein that the exemplary description of the embodiments of the present invention is made herein with poultry being the chicken; in other embodiments, however, the egg-collecting device 100 provided by the present invention can also be used for egg-collecting operations of other birds (such as ducks, geese, etc.). In other words, the practical application scenario of the egg-picking device 100 is not intended to limit the present invention in any way.

In particular, in practice, the housing 102 is the support structure for the entire egg-picking apparatus 100, and is used for embedding and mounting other components. In one embodiment, the external dimension of the chicken cage is a cuboid with the length of 40cm, the width of 40cm and the height of 80cm, the chicken cage is divided into an upper layer and a lower layer, the upper layer mainly provides a roosting space for chickens, and the height of the chicken cage is 45 cm; the lower egg collecting chamber 104 is designed as a detachable drawer, and is used for placing the egg collecting chamber 104 and the associated egg laying nest 106 and conveying pipeline 108 in the box body 102, and the height of the egg collecting chamber is 35 cm. The tank body 102 is made of stainless steel material, so that the corrosion resistance of the tank body is improved while the tank body is firm and durable.

The detachable drawer design of lower floor has integrated the important function (i.e. lay eggs and egg collection) of adopting egg device 100, the design size is long 38cm x wide 38cm x high 35cm, install the lower floor at box 102, the upper end central point of drawer structure puts and is used for imbedding laying eggs nest 106, the lower extreme designs for the egg collection region of egg collection room 104, the outside central point of drawer structure puts and is provided with the handle, the slide rail is installed to the bottom both sides in box 102 simultaneously, can be convenient for pull out and push the drawer structure.

In the case of the laying nest 106, which is intended to provide laying space for the chicken, a downwardly tapering groove with an inner diameter of 25cm and a depth of 12cm is provided, the bottom of which is designed with an opening with a diameter of 5.2 cm. When new eggs are produced, the eggs can smoothly slide from the holes, and the clamping grooves are arranged around the drawer structure and just fix the egg laying nest 106. Because the chicken has the habit of hatching eggs, consequently set up two egg models that the quality is lighter, its colour is unanimous with ordinary egg, lures the chicken to lay eggs through the egg model, can also satisfy the habit of hatching eggs after the chicken lays eggs simultaneously. The size of the egg model is 6.5cm in height, the central diameter is 5.5cm, and the size of the egg model is slightly larger than that of a common egg, so that the egg model can not slide from the bottom opening. An RFID recognizer (to be described below) is arranged on the right side of the bottom opening hole and can recognize the identity information of the laying hens with the electronic foot rings at present so as to cooperate with a subsequent detection system to count the egg laying information of each hen in detail.

As further shown in fig. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, the conveying conduit 108 may be configured in a helical configuration, with the second end of the conveying conduit 108 being closer to the floor of the egg collection chamber 104 than the first end.

Specifically, the conveying pipe 108 of the spiral structure is a part for connecting the egg laying nest 106 and the egg collecting chamber 104, and the pipe is designed by adopting a spiral S-shaped pipe, the maximum angle of any position is not more than 15 degrees, and the width is 6cm, so that common eggs can smoothly fall into the egg collecting chamber 104 from the pipe under the action of gravity. In one embodiment, the conveying pipe 108 is made of plastic, flexible anti-collision materials are designed on two sides of the pipe, and an anti-slip plastic pad is laid on the bottom of the pipe to increase friction force to prevent eggs from breaking due to too fast speed when passing through the pipe. Furthermore, a relatively flat area of 8cm length can be designed at the middle of the pipe, under which a weight sensor (described below) is mounted, which can collect weight information of the eggs as they pass through the area under inertia.

Further, in one embodiment, as shown in fig. 1, the floor of the egg collection chamber 104 may be configured as a sloped panel. The inclined plate has a first corner and a second corner opposite to each other, and the first corner and the second corner are configured as the highest point and the lowest point of the inclined plate, respectively, in the height direction of the egg producing device 100, and the second end of the conveying pipe 108 is disposed toward the first corner.

Specifically, the egg collecting chamber 104 is a container for collecting eggs, and the egg collecting chamber 104 is integrally constructed in a drawer type structure, and a bottom area thereof is used for storing the collected eggs. In one embodiment, the bottom surface of the egg collecting chamber 104 is laid with an anti-slip plastic pad for increasing the friction force of the rolling eggs to prevent the speed from being too high; the inside wall of egg collection room 104 is provided with soft crashproof pad to reduce the collision risk when the egg comes out from the pipeline. The bottom plate of the egg collecting chamber 104 is designed by adopting an inclination angle of 5 degrees, for example, as shown in fig. 1, the positions of four corners of the egg collecting chamber 104 are set to be A, B, C, D respectively, the position of the end a is highest (namely, the first corner), the positions of the end B and the end D are on the same horizontal line, and the position of the end C is lowest (namely, the second corner), so that eggs in the conveying pipeline 108 can automatically roll to the lower position of the end C when coming out from the end a, and the egg collecting chamber is prevented from being stacked at the outlet of the pipeline while the space utilization rate is ensured.

In one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the egg candling apparatus 100 may also include a detection system. The detection system includes an RFID identifier 110 and a weight sensor 112. Specifically, the RFID identifier 110 is disposed at a narrow-mouth position of the egg laying nest 106, and the weight sensor 112 is disposed in the delivery duct 108. The RFID identifier 110 can identify the identity information of the laying hens currently provided with the electronic foot rings, so that the egg laying information of each hen is counted in detail together with other devices in the detection system. The weight sensor 112 is used for converting the pressure signal into a voltage signal, and a high-precision resistance strain type weighing sensor can be used, so that the maximum weighing range is 200g, the weighing resolution reaches 0.01g, and the weighing precision of eggs is met.

Further, in one embodiment, the detection system also includes an A/D conversion module 114, a processor 116, and a gateway module 118. Specifically, the a/D conversion module 114 is electrically connected to the weight sensor 112 and is configured to convert an analog signal output by the weight sensor 112 into a digital signal. The processor 116 is electrically connected to the a/D conversion module 114 and the RFID identifier 110 and is configured to receive the digital signal and the identification information of the target animal identified by the RFID identifier 110. In addition, the gateway module 118 is used to wirelessly connect the processor 116 to the data center 120.

Specifically, the detection system is provided with a power supply module which mainly supplies power to the weight sensor 112, the processor 116 and other modules, and adopts a rechargeable storage battery to supply power, the battery capacity is 20000 milliamperes, the output direct current voltage is 5V, and the detection system can be used for normal operation of the system for 15 days. The a/D conversion module 114 converts the analog electrical signal output by the weight sensor 112 into a digital signal, and here, for example, a 24-bit low-power consumption AD7124-8 chip with a relatively high cost performance can be adopted, and the highest conversion rate can reach 19.2k, so as to meet the requirement of dynamic high-speed sampling of eggs. Further, for example, the processor 116 may employ a 32-bit ARM single-chip microcomputer TM4C123GH6PZ of TI corporation, which has a computation speed of 80MHz, and is used to analyze and calculate the weight data of eggs, and identify individual chicken identity information and realize the control of a PLC module in an automatic feeding system (described below). The gateway module 118 is configured to send the collected egg information (weight, laying time, hen identification information) to a designated server address through a wireless network, so as to establish a bridge with the data center 120. For the data center 120, the data center is used for storing and analyzing egg laying data, comparing the egg laying data of each chicken from the aspects of egg weight, egg laying frequency and the like, and mastering the number of eggs in the current egg laying box in real time. When the eggs in the egg collecting chamber reach a certain number, prompt information is given to prompt that manual egg collecting and clearing operations are needed.

With continued reference to fig. 1, in an embodiment of the present invention, the egg-sampling device 100 further includes a feeder 122 disposed on an interior wall of the top panel of the housing 102.

In this embodiment, the feeder 122 may include a grain storage compartment 124, a trough 126, and a baffle 128. Specifically, the grain storage chamber 124 is installed on the inner wall of the ceiling of the cabinet 102, the guide groove 126 is provided at the bottom of the grain storage chamber 124, and the baffle 128 may be provided between the grain storage chamber 124 and the guide groove 126. Wherein, a driver electrically connected with the processor 116 is installed on the baffle 128, and the driver can drive the baffle 128 to move based on the driving signal of the processor 116, so as to communicate or separate the food guiding groove 126 and the grain storage chamber 124.

In practical application, the feeder 122 can improve the welfare of animals and reduce the laying time of the chickens after laying eggs. The embodiment of the invention adopts the automatic feeder 122, and after laying eggs, the automatic feeder automatically sprays grains to an opened door body (described below) so as to attract the chickens to come out of the chicken house for foraging and indirectly drive the chickens to improve the utilization rate of the chicken house.

In one embodiment, the grain storage chamber 124 is used for storing chicken grains, and adopts a hollow design with a cylindrical upper end and a conical lower end, the whole height is 25cm, the diameter of the cylinder is 5cm, and the height is 20 cm; the height of the lower end cone is 5cm, the diameter of the grain outlet at the bottom is 0.6cm, and a square sliding cover of 5cm multiplied by 5cm is arranged above the grain storage chamber 124 and used for opening the grain storage chamber.

Further, the baffle 128 can be designed with a PLC module 130 as a driver, for example, to control the opening and closing of the baffle by a program to realize the automatic spraying of the chicken food. When the chicken coop is used, the food guide groove 126 is connected with the bottom opening of the food storage chamber 124, so that chicken food can fall on the opened door body and slide to the ground, and the chicken is attracted to come out of the chicken coop to find food, so that the time for groveling the chicken coop is reduced.

With continued reference to fig. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, the egg-sampling device 100 can further include a door 132 pivotally coupled to the housing 102, the door 132 being pivotable between a closed position closing the housing 102 and an open position opening the housing 102. The open position of the door 132 is schematically shown in fig. 1. In this position, the door 132 can form a ramp for the target animal to enter the enclosure 102. In addition, feeder 122 can set up with door body 132 homonymy and the export orientation of guide groove 126 is towards the door body 132 that is in the open position for the chicken grain can drop on the door body 132 that opens and slide to subaerial, lures the chicken to come out from the chicken nest and forage like this, in order to reduce the time of lying prone.

In practical application, the door 132 may be a door with a width of 40cm × a height of 45cm arranged at the front end of the box 102, the lower edge of the door 132 is fixed at a position 35cm of the front end of the box 102 by two hinges, a handle is designed at the central position of the outer side of the door 132 to facilitate opening the door, and when the door is opened, the upper end of the door can just contact the ground to serve as a step or a ramp, so that a chicken can step on the door to enter the box 102.

More specifically, the housing 102 may be divided into an upper region and a lower region in a height direction, the egg collecting chamber 104 is detachably mounted in the lower region, the feeder 122 is located in the upper region, and the door 132 is connected to the upper region, thereby forming a schematic structure as shown in fig. 1.

Further, as shown in FIG. 1, in one embodiment of the present invention, the outer top of the box 102 may be provided with a handle 134, and the outer bottom of the box 102 may be provided with a plurality of universal wheels 136 with calipers, wherein the universal wheels 136 are detachably connected with the outer bottom of the box 102. Specifically, in one embodiment, to improve portability, the four bottom corners of the lower end of the housing 102 may be provided with removable casters 136 having calipers. When a certain position is fixedly placed, the universal wheel 136 can be locked by pressing down the caliper to prevent the caliper from rotating, and the caliper can be fixed by pulling up the caliper when the caliper needs to be moved. In addition, to improve the convenience of transportation, a handle 134 made of soft plastic may be provided at the top end of the case 102, and fixed to the center of the top end of the case 102 using four screws having threads.

An exemplary operation of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 1 to 3. It is to be understood that the following description is only exemplary embodiments of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention.

First, the user can press the power switch of the egg collecting device 100 to initialize the system, the feeder 122 is filled with chicken food, the door 132 at the front end of the box 102 is opened to enable the chicken to obliquely straddle the ground to be used as an inclined ladder, and the chicken freely enter the egg laying nest 106 through the inclined ladder to lay eggs.

When new eggs are produced, the eggs will squeeze the two egg models apart under the action of gravity, slide from the openings at the bottom of the laying nest 106 into the conveying pipe 108 with resistance, and automatically separate the eggs from the laying nest 106.

When eggs slowly pass through the weight sensor 112 at the middle position of the pipe section, the weight information of the eggs is automatically sampled at high speed, the analog voltage value output by the weight sensor 112 is continuously sampled by the A/D conversion module 114, the sampling time reaches 6000 times every second, the time of the eggs from the beginning to the leaving is about 1.5 seconds, and therefore 9000 pieces of data are expected to be collected in total and processed as follows:

1. dividing 9000 collected data into 18 groups according to sampling time, wherein each group comprises about 500 data;

2. comparing each group of adjacent data, and rejecting data with a relative stability value larger than 0.5g within 0.2 second;

3. calculating the average value and variance of each group of data, removing 1/5 data with the largest variance from each group, removing 3 groups with the largest group variance, and reserving the rest 15 groups;

4. and after data screening, recalculating the average value of each group of data, removing the largest and the smallest groups, recalculating the average value as the final actual acquisition data, and comparing the final actual acquisition data with static weighing to control the maximum precision within 2%.

Meanwhile, the RFID identifier 110 below the laying nest 106 reads the electronic wingmark of the current laying hen to obtain the identity ID of the electronic wingmark, and transmits the collected identity information, egg weight information and time to the data center 120 of the server through the gateway module 118, the data center 120 can store and analyze laying data in real time, and the timer 138 starts five-minute timing based on the signal of the processor 116.

Then, the eggs automatically and slowly roll to the low-lying position of the egg collecting chamber 104 under the action of frictional resistance after sliding out from the outlet of the conveying pipeline 108, so that the eggs are prevented from being excessively concentrated at the egg outlet position.

After the timing is finished for five minutes, the PLC module 130 automatically opens the baffle 128 at the bottom of the feeder 122, the chicken food is scattered on the door body 132 through the food guide groove 126 under the action of gravity, then the chicken food slides on the ground through the door body 132, and the baffle 128 is automatically closed after 5 seconds. At the moment, the current laying hens can find food from the egg nest after seeing the falling food, and meanwhile, the counter is reset to wait for the restart of the next period.

In addition, the data center 120 can record and count the number of eggs in the egg collecting chambers 104 in real time, when the number of the collected eggs reaches a preset value, the system gives an early warning to prompt that manual collection and picking are needed, meanwhile, the egg collecting chambers 104 with corresponding numbers are reset, and the egg collecting chambers 104 are counted again after being reset.

In summary, the egg collecting device 100 provided in the embodiment of the present invention can achieve the following beneficial effects:

the egg laying nest 106 and the egg collecting chamber 104 are designed separately, so that the time for hatching eggs by a plurality of chickens is reduced, the quality guarantee period of the eggs is prolonged, and two slightly larger simulated egg models are adopted, so that the egg laying habit of the chickens can be guaranteed, and meanwhile, the egg laying attraction of the chickens is improved.

An egg weight sensor 112 is integrated in the conveying pipeline 108, the egg weight and the egg laying time can be accurately and dynamically acquired by adopting a high-speed weighing algorithm, the current laying hens are automatically bound by combining the RFID identifier 110, and the egg laying information of each hen can be accurately traced.

The automatic feeder 122 is designed on the box body 102, the PLC module 130 controls the opening and closing of the baffle 128 and the duration, the automation of grain scattering is realized, indirect driving of chickens is realized, and the utilization efficiency of the chicken house is improved.

The pipeline between the egg laying nest 106 and the egg collecting chamber 104 adopts a spiral structure S-shaped pipeline design, the speed of eggs passing through is reduced by increasing the bottom friction and processing at a special angle, and the risk of breaking the eggs is reduced. And the egg collecting chamber 104 adopts a certain angle and anti-skid and anti-collision material design, so that the speed of eggs when the eggs slide out from the pipeline is reduced, the space utilization rate of the egg collecting chamber 104 is ensured, and the eggs are prevented from being concentrated at the egg outlet.

In addition, the invention fully considers the tendency of finding hidden and safe positions and the habits of hatching eggs when the chickens lay eggs, provides a better egg laying environment for the chickens on the whole, reduces manual intervention, has flexible and small structural design and weight controlled within 5KG, and ensures the firmness and the movement convenience of the chickens.

The above-described embodiments of the apparatus are merely illustrative, and the units described as separate parts may or may not be physically separate, and parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the present embodiment. One of ordinary skill in the art can understand and implement it without inventive effort.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. An egg collecting device is characterized by comprising a box body and an egg collecting chamber which is detachably arranged in the box body, wherein an egg laying nest and a conveying pipeline are arranged in the egg collecting chamber,

wherein the egg laying nest is constructed into a conical structure, the wide mouth part of the conical structure is positioned at the top of the egg collecting chamber, the narrow mouth part of the conical structure is connected with the first end of the conveying pipeline, and the second end of the conveying pipeline is positioned in the egg collecting chamber.

2. The egg harvesting device of claim 1, wherein the delivery conduit is configured in a helical configuration and a second end of the delivery conduit is closer to a floor of the egg collection chamber than a first end.

3. The egg collection device of claim 2, wherein the floor of the egg collection chamber is configured as an inclined panel having first and second corners opposite each other, the first and second corners configured as the highest and lowest points of the inclined panel, respectively, in a height direction of the egg collection device, the second end of the delivery conduit disposed toward the first corner.

4. The egg collecting device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the bottom plate surface of the egg collecting chamber is laid with a non-slip plastic pad, and the inner side wall of the egg collecting chamber is provided with a crash pad.

5. The egg harvesting device of any of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a detection system comprising an RFID identifier and a weight sensor,

wherein the RFID identifier is disposed at a narrow-mouth location of the egg laying nest and the weight sensor is disposed in the conveying pipe.

6. The egg harvesting device of claim 5, wherein the detection system further comprises:

the A/D conversion module is electrically connected with the weight sensor and is used for converting the analog signal output by the weight sensor into a digital signal;

the processor is electrically connected with the A/D conversion module and the RFID identifier and is used for receiving the digital signal and the identity information of the target animal identified by the RFID identifier;

and the gateway module is used for connecting the processor to a data center in a wireless mode.

7. The egg collection device of claim 6, further comprising a feeder disposed on an interior wall of a ceiling of the housing, the feeder comprising:

the grain storage chamber is arranged on the inner wall of the top plate;

the food guide groove is arranged at the bottom of the grain storage room;

the baffle, the baffle sets up store up the grain room with lead between the trough, the baffle install with the driver that the treater electricity is connected, the driver is based on the drive signal drive of treater the baffle removes, so that lead the trough with store up grain room intercommunication or partition.

8. The egg harvesting device of claim 7, further comprising a door pivotally connected to the housing, the door being pivotable between a closed position closing the housing and an open position opening the housing,

wherein the door body forms a ramp for the target animal to enter the box body at the opening position, the feeder is arranged at the same side with the door body, and the outlet of the food guiding groove is oriented towards the door body at the opening position.

9. The egg collecting device as claimed in claim 8, wherein the case is divided into an upper area and a lower area in a height direction, the egg collecting chamber is detachably installed in the lower area, the feeder is located in the upper area, and the door body is connected to the upper area.

10. The egg collecting device as recited in claim 1, wherein a handle is provided on an outer top of the box body, and a plurality of universal wheels with calipers are provided on an outer bottom of the box body, wherein the universal wheels are detachably connected with the outer bottom of the box body.