CN212520359U

CN212520359U - Non-human primate animal feeding cage

Info

Publication number: CN212520359U
Application number: CN202021073922.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 钟朝敏
Original assignee: Suzhou Xishan Zhongke Drug R & D Co ltd
Current assignee: Suzhou Xishan Zhongke Drug R & D Co ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-11
Filing date: 2020-06-11
Publication date: 2021-02-12
Anticipated expiration: 2030-06-11

Abstract

The utility model discloses a non-human primate animal feeding cage utensil relates to animal feeding equipment, animal science experiment, animal treatment field, aims at solving the low problem of cage utensil space utilization, and its technical essential lies in: the cage frame has the baffle that is used for being divided into two independent rooms with the cage frame along passageway direction sliding connection, baffle fixedly connected with follows the digging arm that the passageway stretches out, the digging arm is connected with the location pin pole through elastic mechanism, the cage wall is equipped with a plurality of positioning seats along passageway length direction distribution, the positioning seat be equipped with location pin pole matched with locating hole, elastic mechanism is used for elasticity to drive the location pin pole and inserts the locating hole, still include fixed establishment, fixed establishment is used for fixed connection location pin pole and cage frame when the location pin pole inserts the locating hole. The utility model relates to a rationally, simple structure has and can utilize cage utensil space compactness, has improved the utilization ratio in laboratory space.

Description

Non-human primate animal feeding cage

Technical Field

The utility model relates to an animal feeding equipment, animal science experiment, animal treatment field, more specifically say that it relates to a non-human primate animal feeding cage utensil.

Background

The primate animal has homology of 75-98.5% with human genetic material, and has anatomical and physiological characteristics similar to that of human, and the experimental primate animals include rhesus monkey, cynomolgus monkey, bear monkey, ragtail monkey, red monkey, Japanese macaque, baboon, etc. As a substitute and a living precise instrument for human beings, primate experimental animals play an important role in the scientific research field without replacement.

Traditional non-human primate raises cage utensil and adopts the formula structure of welding entirely, and the fixed undetachable of structure, cage utensil class activity space are fixed, and the in-process that shifts the animal is injured easily.

At present, Chinese patent with application number CN 209390826U discloses a non-human primate animal feeding cage. The scheme comprises a square cage frame and six cage walls, wherein at least one cage wall is a latticed cage wall, blocking parts are arranged at four corners of the surface of the latticed cage wall where the cage frame is located, and the blocking parts are used for blocking limbs of the non-human primates from extending out of the corners. The feeding cage is also provided with a movable extrusion net for driving animals and a pull rod for pulling the extrusion net, and the pull rod can pull the extrusion net to move between the front cage wall and the rear cage wall.

Although the effect of driving animals can be achieved through the extrusion plate with the pull rod through the scheme, the scheme has the advantage that the longer pull rod occupies the space of a laboratory.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

Not enough to prior art exists, the utility model aims to provide a non-human primate raises cage utensil has the waste that improves cage utensil space utilization, and does not have longer pull rod and then reduces the laboratory space.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the utility model provides a following technical scheme:

the utility model provides a non-human primate animal feeding cage utensil, includes the cage frame, it is equipped with along cage frame length direction's passageway to have at least one side cage wall on the cage frame, the cage frame has the baffle that is used for being divided into two independent rooms with the cage frame along passageway direction sliding connection, the digging arm that baffle fixedly connected with stretches out from the passageway, the digging arm is connected with the location pin pole through elastic mechanism, the cage wall is equipped with a plurality of positioning seats along passageway length direction distribution, the positioning seat is equipped with the locating hole with location pin pole matched with, elastic mechanism is used for elasticity drive location pin pole and inserts the locating hole, cage wall fixedly connected with fixed establishment, fixed establishment is used for fixed connection location pin pole when the location pin pole inserts the locating hole.

Adopt above-mentioned scheme, set up the passageway along cage frame length direction on one side cage wall, be equipped with the baffle that is on a parallel with cage frame width direction in the cage frame, baffle along passageway direction sliding connection on the cage frame, the length of cage frame is longer than traditional cage frame simultaneously, when not driving the animal activity, idle baffle can divide into two independent rooms with the cage frame, can satisfy the requirement that the single cage of primate was raised like this, again can the rational utilization space. One side of the clapboard is fixedly connected with a cylindrical movable arm, the movable arm extends out of the channel, the diameter of the movable arm is smaller than the width of the channel, so that the movable arm can freely slide in the channel, the movable arm is provided with an elastic mechanism for elastically connecting a positioning pin rod, so that the positioning pin rod can automatically fall out of the positioning hole under the elastic acting force exerted by the elastic mechanism, the convenience of pulling the positioning pin rod out of the positioning hole in the driving activity is improved, the positioning holes are arranged on the cylindrical positioning seats, the positioning seats are fixedly connected on the cage wall at the bottom of the channel and are distributed at equal intervals along the channel direction, when the driving activity is finished or the internal space of the cage frame is adjusted, the elastic mechanism is extruded to ensure that the positioning pin rod is inserted into the positioning hole, and the fixing mechanism is used for fixing, detachably connecting and positioning the pin rod and the positioning seat, so that the convenience of fixing the partition plate is improved, and the risk of opening by mistake is reduced. Meanwhile, the movable arm, the elastic mechanism, the positioning pin rod and the positioning seat are short in distance relative to the whole baffle plate, so that the mechanism does not occupy too much space after the baffle plate is fixed.

Furthermore, elastic mechanism includes the spring of fixed connection in the digging hole of digging arm and the connecting rod of the fixed connection spring other end, connecting rod fixed connection is in locating pin pole and can follow the trompil direction and slide.

Adopt above-mentioned scheme, connecting rod fixed connection is in spring one end, and spring fixed connection is in the trompil of digging arm, locating pin pole fixed connection is in the connecting rod, when the artifical effort of applying in connecting rod, this effort direction is by the directional digging arm of connecting rod, can drive locating pin pole and insert the locating hole to this effort direction motion, after the spring compresses tightly, can apply an elastic force, this elastic force and the artifical effort of applying each other are the opposite force, and then drive locating pin pole and remove the breaking away from locating hole along the elastic force direction, make things convenient for the operator to fix and dismantle the agility of locating pin pole.

Further, be equipped with two spouts along the diametric symmetry in the digging hole of digging arm, connecting rod pole body is equipped with two sliders of sliding connection in the spout, the spout is close to the digging arm both ends closure.

Adopt above-mentioned scheme, two spouts have been seted up to the digging arm, the length of two spouts is the same and along the diameter symmetry, the spout is close to the digging arm both ends and is the closure state, the direction is the same for the spout is seted up simultaneously, all follow the digging arm axial direction, the connecting rod stretches into one of digging arm and serves and be equipped with the slider with spout matched with, the connecting rod can slide along the spout in the digging arm, spout and slide rail through mutually supporting have increased the gliding stability of connecting rod, and slider length is 1/5 ~ 1/4 of spout length, make the connecting rod can not deviate from the digging arm, avoid losing of connecting rod.

Further, the fixing mechanism is a connecting ring provided with internal threads.

By adopting the scheme, after the positioning pin rod is inserted into the positioning hole, the positioning pin rod is fixedly connected with the positioning seat through the threads by rotating the connecting ring manually, so that the operation is simple, and the positioning pin rod is convenient to fix and detach.

Furthermore, the connecting ring is rotatably connected to the positioning seat, and the positioning pin rod is connected to the connecting ring through threads to realize the fixation of the positioning pin rod.

By adopting the scheme, after the positioning pin rod is inserted into the positioning hole, the connecting ring is manually rotated, the internal thread of the connecting ring is matched with the external thread on the positioning pin rod, and when the positioning pin rod needs to be pulled out from the hole, the connecting ring is rotated in the opposite direction, so that an operator can conveniently fix and detach the positioning pin rod.

Furthermore, the connecting ring is rotatably connected to the locating pin rod, and the connecting ring is connected to the locating seat through threads to fix the locating pin rod.

By adopting the scheme, after the positioning pin rod is inserted into the positioning hole, the connecting ring is manually rotated, the internal thread of the connecting ring is matched with the external thread on the positioning seat, and when the positioning pin rod needs to be pulled out from the hole, the connecting ring is rotated in the opposite direction, so that the number of the connecting ring is reduced, the processing cost and time of equipment are reduced, and the positioning pin rod is convenient for an operator to fix and detach.

Furthermore, a food box is detachably connected to the wall of the cage parallel to the partition plate.

Adopt above-mentioned scheme, realize conveniently feeding the animal through setting up detachable food box and water box, change animal food as required.

Further, the baffle is equipped with the sliding block with sliding tray sliding connection on the cage frame.

Adopt above-mentioned scheme, cage length direction is equipped with sunken sliding tray, and the sliding tray both ends are the closure, and the baffle is equipped with bellied sliding block, and the sliding block is unified whole with the baffle, and the baffle can follow the sliding tray direction and freely slide to baffle slider gomphosis is in the sliding tray, and the baffle is vertical can not destroyed by the slight external force that the animal applyed in cage length direction's state, has improved the stability of baffle in the cage.

To sum up, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has: the cage body is divided into two independent rooms through the slidable partition plate, and two animals are fed at the same time, so that the space utilization rate is increased. The baffle that possesses the effect of driving does not occupy unnecessary space when promoting the realization through small connecting rod and not driving, and the baffle passes through fixed connection and realizes that the multiposition is fixed with positioning seat and go-between fixed locating pin pole under the connecting rod, improves the flexibility that the cage body space changed.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the structure of a non-human primate feeding cage according to one embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the elastic mechanism according to the first embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a view of a positioning pin, positioning seat and connecting ring according to the embodiment;

FIG. 4 is a view of the pin shaft, the positioning seat and the connection ring according to the second embodiment.

In the figure: 1. a cage frame; 2. a cage wall; 201. an upper cage wall; 202. a lower cage wall; 3. a channel; 4. a partition plate; 5. a movable arm; 6. a connecting rod; 7. positioning the pin rod; 701. a front section; 702. a rear section; 8. a connecting ring; 9. positioning seats; 10. a food box; 11. a spring; 12. a slider; 13. a chute; 14. and (7) positioning the holes.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present invention, not all embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by a person skilled in the art without creative work belong to the protection scope of the present invention.

The first embodiment is as follows:

a non-human primate animal feeding cage, see figure 1, including square stainless steel cage frame 1, cage frame 1 internally mounted has baffle 4 that the corrosion resistant plate was made, and the length of cage frame 1 is longer than traditional cage frame 1 simultaneously, and when not driving the animal activity, idle baffle 4 can divide into two independent rooms with cage frame 1, can satisfy the requirement that the single cage of primate was raised like this, again can the rational utilization space.

The cage frame 1 is provided with a sunken sliding groove along the edge of the length direction, the partition plate 4 is provided with two sides provided with convex sliding blocks, the sliding blocks and the partition plate 4 are integrated, when the partition plate 4 is loaded, the partition plate 4 is embedded into the sliding grooves along the width direction parallel to the cage frame 1, the partition plate 4 is connected inside the cage frame 1 in a sliding way, the size of the space at two sides can be adjusted in the sliding process, the partition plate 4 with driving function can be slid to one side close to the wide side of the cage frame 1 to reduce the size of the animal activity space at the side so as to conveniently grab the animal inside, the animal is prevented from repelling a worker due to stress reaction, the worker stretches the body into the cage to be grabbed by the animal, when the partition plate 4 is slid to a proper position, the position of the partition plate 4 in the cage frame 1 is fixed through the matching of the positioning seat 9, the positioning pin rod 7 and the connecting ring 8, and the movement of the animal is effectively, while the positioning pin 7 and the connecting rod 6 are short from the cage wall 2 without taking up too much space.

The cage wall 2 arranged in the long side direction of the cage frame 1 consists of two parts, including an upper cage wall 201 formed by vertically welding stainless steel pipes on the cage frame and a lower cage wall 202 made of stainless steel plates, the stainless steel pipes are equidistantly distributed along the length direction of the cage frame 1, the width of a gap existing between the stainless steel pipes is not large enough for four limbs of the non-human primates to stretch out, so that the four limbs of the animals are prevented from being clamped in the gap to cause the injury of the animals, meanwhile, the four limbs of the animals stretch out to interfere with testers, the rest five cage walls 2 of the cage frame 1 all adopt the structure of the upper cage wall 201, a gap exists between the upper cage wall 201 and the lower cage wall 202, the gap forms a channel 3 along the length direction of the cage frame 1, the channel 3 is rectangular, the width of the channel 3 is not large enough for the non-human primates to stretch out, meanwhile, the length of the channel 3 is smaller than the, the diameter of the moveable arm 5 is slightly smaller than the width of the channel 3 so that the moveable arm 5 can slide freely in the channel 3.

Referring to fig. 1 and 2, the movable arm 5 is provided with an opening, the opening is axially overlapped with the movable arm 5, the depth of the opening is smaller than the height of the movable arm 5, the connecting rod 6 is inserted into the opening, the connecting rod 6 can slide back and forth along the axial direction of the opening, and the bottom surface of the opening is connected with a spring 11 at one end position where the connecting rod 6 is inserted, so as to form an elastic telescopic structure.

In order to increase the stability in the sliding process, symmetrical sliding grooves 13 are formed in the opening of the movable arm 5, the sliding grooves 13 are formed in the axial direction of the movable arm 5, a sliding block 12 is arranged at one end, connected with a spring 11, of the connecting rod 6, the length of the sliding block 12 is 1/5-1/4 of the length of the sliding groove 13, the connecting rod 6 freely slides in the direction of the sliding groove 13 through the sliding block 12, the two ends, close to the movable arm 5, of the sliding groove 13 are in a closed state, and the connecting rod 6 is prevented from being lost in the sliding process.

Referring to fig. 1, connecting rod 6 is U type structure, improves the comfort level of operator at sliding connection rod 6 in-process, and fixedly connected with locating pin pole 7 under connecting rod 6. Be equipped with a plurality of cylindrical positioning seats 9 on cage wall 2, positioning seat 9 distributes along 3 directions equidistance of passageway, and the distance of positioning seat 9 and the broadside that is close to the frame broadside is not enough to make baffle 4 extrude non-human primate card on cage wall 2, and positioning seat 9 is equipped with locating hole 14, realizes that locating pin 7 is fixed in a plurality of positions, improves the flexibility of space variation.

In order to conveniently replace different foods according to experimental requirements, the bottom of the cage wall 2 on the wide side of the cage frame 1 is provided with a square opening, the square opening can accommodate a square food box 10, and the food box 10 is fixedly and detachably connected to the cage frame 1 through bolts.

Referring to fig. 1 and 3, be equipped with the fixed slot along its circular bottom surface on the positioning seat 9, this fixed slot setting is keeping away from 2 one end of cage wall, and there is the certain distance in this fixed slot and positioning seat 9 terminal surface, this circular fixed slot can be followed to go-between 8 bottoms, go-between 8 tops are equipped with the internal thread, cylindrical locating pin 7 is including carrying out anterior segment 701 and the back end 702 that has the screw thread of bolt, anterior segment 701 diameter slightly is less than locating hole 14 internal diameter, back end 702 external diameter slightly is less than go-between 8 internal diameter of thread, anterior segment 701 length is the same with locating hole 14 degree of depth, the external screw thread length of locating pin 7 is the same with go-between 8 internal thread length, after locating pin 7 inserts locating hole 14, rotate connecting ring.

In the specific use process, animals can be raised in two independent rooms of the cage body as required, the sizes of the spaces at two sides can be adjusted as required, when the animals are driven, the connecting ring 8 is rotated, the positioning pin 7 is automatically separated from the positioning hole 14 due to the reaction force of the compressed spring 11, the rapidness of detaching the positioning pin 7 is improved, the connecting rod 6 is manually pushed to drive the partition plate 4 to slide along the direction of the channel 3, when the partition plate 4 is in a proper position, an axial acting force is manually exerted on the connecting rod 6, the acting force direction points to the movable arm 5 from the connecting rod 6 to drive the positioning pin 7 fixedly connected below the connecting rod 6 to be inserted into the positioning hole 14, the connecting ring 8 is rotated, the rear section 702 of the positioning pin 7 is connected in a threaded manner, the positioning pin 7 cannot be separated from the positioning hole 14, and the function of fixing the position of the partition plate 4 in the length direction of the, after the partition plate 4 is fixed, the space formed between one side of the partition plate 4 and the wide side cage wall 2 of the cage frame 1 is relatively small, and then the scientific experiment on the animal by the working personnel is facilitated.

Example two:

this embodiment discloses a non-human primate animal feeding cage, which has substantially the same structure as the first embodiment, and is different in the connection manner among the positioning pin 7, the positioning seat 9, and the connection ring 8.

Referring to fig. 4 and fig. 1, an external thread is arranged at one end, close to the positioning pin rod 7, of the positioning seat 9, the positioning pin rod 7 is provided with a fixing groove which is circular along the bottom surface, the bottom of the connecting ring 8 is rotated to be connected with the circular fixing groove, an internal thread is arranged at the top of the connecting ring 8, the length of the internal thread of the connecting ring 8 is the same as that of the external thread of the positioning seat 9, the external diameter of the thread of the positioning seat 9 is slightly smaller than the internal diameter of the thread of the connecting ring 8, the internal diameter of the positioning pin rod 7 is slightly smaller.

In concrete use, also similar with embodiment one majority, the only difference is when baffle 4 is in suitable position, the manual work is to connecting rod 6 applys an axial effort, this effort direction is from connecting rod 6 directional digging arm 5, drive fixed connection in locating pin 7 under connecting rod 6 inserts in locating hole 14, rotate go-between 8, threaded connection positioning seat 9, fixed location pin 7 can not deviate from locating hole 14, and then reach the function of fixed baffle 4 in cage 1 length direction position, behind the fixed baffle 4, the space that forms between baffle 4 one side and the cage 1 broadside cage wall 2 is less relatively, and then make things convenient for the staff to carry out scientific experiment to the animal.

It is above only the utility model discloses a preferred embodiment, the utility model discloses a scope of protection does not only confine above-mentioned embodiment, the all belongs to the utility model discloses a technical scheme under the thinking all belongs to the utility model discloses a scope of protection. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, various modifications and decorations can be made without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these modifications and decorations should also be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A non-human primate animal feeding cage comprises a cage frame (1) and is characterized in that: at least one cage wall (2) on the cage frame (1) is provided with a channel (3) along the length direction of the cage frame (1), the cage frame (1) is connected with a partition plate (4) which is used for dividing the cage frame (1) into two independent rooms in a sliding way along the direction of the channel (3), the clapboard (4) is fixedly connected with a movable arm (5) extending out of the channel (3), the movable arm (5) is connected with a positioning pin rod (7) through an elastic mechanism, the cage wall (2) is provided with a plurality of positioning seats (9) distributed along the length direction of the channel (3), the positioning seat (9) is provided with a positioning hole (14) matched with the positioning pin rod (7), the elastic mechanism is used for elastically driving the positioning pin rod (7) to be inserted into the positioning hole (14), the cage is characterized in that a fixing mechanism is fixedly connected to the cage wall (2), and the fixing mechanism is used for fixedly connecting the positioning pin rod (7) when the positioning pin rod (7) is inserted into the positioning hole (14).

2. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 1, wherein: the elastic mechanism comprises a spring (11) fixedly connected in the opening of the movable arm (5) and a connecting rod (6) fixedly connected with the other end of the spring (11), and the connecting rod (6) is fixedly connected to the positioning pin rod (7) and can slide along the opening direction.

3. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 2, wherein: be equipped with two spout (13) along the diametric symmetry in digging a hole of digging arm (5), connecting rod (6) pole body is equipped with two slider (12) of sliding connection in spout (13), spout (13) are close to digging arm (5) both ends closure.

4. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 1, wherein: the fixing mechanism is a connecting ring (8) provided with internal threads.

5. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 4, wherein: the connecting ring (8) is rotatably connected to the positioning seat (9), and the positioning pin rod (7) is connected to the connecting ring (8) through threads to fix the positioning pin rod (7).

6. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 4, wherein: the connecting ring (8) is rotatably connected to the positioning pin rod (7), and the connecting ring (8) is connected to the positioning seat (9) through threads to fix the pin of the positioning pin rod (7).

7. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 1, wherein: the food box (10) is detachably connected to the cage wall (2) parallel to the partition plate (4).

8. The non-human primate animal feeding cage according to claim 1, wherein: the partition plate (4) is provided with a sliding block which is in sliding connection with a sliding groove in the cage frame (1).