CN217012260U - Automatic feeding device for feeding cage - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic feeding device for a feeding cage, relates to a breeding appliance, and solves the problems that in the prior art, feeding of mice in the feeding cage is manually finished; the technical scheme is as follows: the raising device is provided with a fixing piece, and the fixing piece is clamped with the raising cage; the feeding device is provided with a first coupler along the horizontal direction, a first connecting piece is arranged in a concave part of the first coupler, and the first connecting piece is connected with the net bag; the feeding device comprises a driving mechanism, a master control device and a storage device, wherein the driving mechanism comprises a first driving mechanism and a second driving mechanism, a transmission shaft of the first driving mechanism is connected with a first coupler, the second driving mechanism is connected with the master control device, and the master control device is connected with the storage device. The utility model realizes the automatic operation of feeding the feed every day and reduces the burden of workers.

Description

Automatic feeding device for feeding cage

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a breeding appliance, in particular to an automatic breeding device for a breeding cage.

Background

White rat (Mus musculus), also called experimental rat and white rat, refers to white fur rat or mouse which is commonly used as experimental animal in teaching and research of physiology, medicine, pharmacy and other subjects. The small white mouse has small stomach volume and is eaten at any time, thus being an animal with multi-meal habits. The feed intake of adult mice is generally 3-7 g/d, and the feed intake of young mice is generally 1-3 g/d. There should often be a sufficient amount of fresh dry foodstuff in the food container of the squirrel cage. And in many research teams there are different requirements for the feeding of mice based on different experimental needs, such as the fact that in a certain laboratory it is prescribed to add feed and to remove feed at prescribed times in the morning and in the evening, respectively, to control the feeding time and amount of food for the mice.

Presently, all that is used is the rearing cage shown in fig. 1 or a rearing cage similar to fig. 1. The work that this rearging cage need control fodder to add every day needs artifical the completion, and when the scale is great, this mechanical repetitive work causes certain burden and the waste of time, energy to scientific research team's staff.

Therefore, how to automatically feed the organisms in the rearing cage and control the feeding time is a problem which needs to be solved at present.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

The utility model aims to provide an automatic feeding device for a feeding cage, which solves the problem that the time of workers is wasted because the feeding of mice in the feeding cage is manually finished in the prior art.

The technical purpose of the utility model is realized by the following technical scheme:

an automatic feeding device for a feeding cage comprises a pocket net and a feeding device, wherein a fixing piece is arranged on the feeding device and is clamped with the feeding cage;

the feeding device is provided with a first coupler along the horizontal direction, a first connecting piece is arranged in a concave part of the first coupler, and the first connecting piece is connected with the net bag;

the feeding device comprises a driving mechanism, a master control device and a storage device, wherein the driving mechanism comprises a first driving mechanism and a second driving mechanism, a transmission shaft of the first driving mechanism is connected with a first coupler, the second driving mechanism is connected with the master control device, and the master control device is connected with the storage device.

Compared with the prior art, the main control device starts the driving mechanism to control the steering of the first coupling, so that the pocket net rises and falls, when people need to eat, the pocket net is attached to the iron wire net cover arranged on the feeding cage, the object placing device filled with the feed is controlled to drop the feed onto the pocket net, white mice in the feeding cage can eat the feed falling on the pocket net, the pocket net is pulled up to be away from the iron wire net cover arranged on the feeding cage when people do not need to eat, and therefore the automatic operation of feeding the feed every day is achieved, the repeated work of machinery is reduced, and the burden of workers is relieved.

Furthermore, one end of the net is provided with a second connecting piece used for being connected with a rod piece in the wire net cover of the rearing cage, and the other end of the net is provided with a third connecting piece used for being connected with the rod piece in the wire net cover of the rearing cage.

Further, master control set is including the master control box body and the master control lid that are used for installing control chip and clock chip, a actuating mechanism fixed mounting in the master control box body, the master control box body with the connection can be dismantled to the master control lid, be provided with the display screen outside the master control box body, the display screen with control chip and clock chip electric connection.

Furthermore, a concave end is arranged on the main control box body, and a convex end matched with the concave end is arranged on the main control box cover.

Furthermore, a second coupler is arranged on the main control box cover, a second driving mechanism is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the main control box cover, and one end of the second coupler is connected with a transmission shaft of the second driving mechanism.

Furthermore, the object placing device comprises a rotary disc bottom support and a feed box, the rotary disc bottom support is detachably connected with the feed box, and the other end of the second coupler is fixedly connected with the feed box.

Furthermore, a first supporting piece is connected between the turntable bottom support and the main control box cover, a first shaft sleeve is sleeved on the first supporting piece, a second supporting piece is connected between the other end of the second shaft coupler and the feed box, and a second shaft sleeve is sleeved on the second supporting piece.

Furthermore, the model of the control chip is ESP32, and the model of the clock chip is DS 1302.

Furthermore, a plurality of grids for placing the feed are arranged in the feed box, and a discharge hole larger than the grids is formed in the turntable bottom support.

Furthermore, the surface of the main control box body corresponding to the discharge port is provided with an inclined plane which inclines downwards along the horizontal direction, and two sides of the inclined plane are provided with baffles.

Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following beneficial effects:

1. the main control device starts the driving mechanism to control the steering of the first coupling, so that the pocket net ascends and descends, when people need to eat, the pocket net is attached to the wire net cover arranged on the feeding cage, the object placing device filled with the feed is controlled to drop the feed onto the pocket net, the white rats in the feeding cage can eat the feed falling on the pocket net, and the pocket net is not required to be pulled up to be away from the wire net cover arranged on the feeding cage, so that the automatic operation of feeding the feed every day is realized, the repeated work of machinery is reduced, and the burden of workers is relieved.

2. According to the utility model, the grids for placing the feed are arranged on the feed box, so that the feeding frequency can be prolonged, and the periodicity of automatic feeding is prolonged.

Drawings

The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the embodiments of the utility model and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, illustrate embodiment(s) of the utility model and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the utility model. In the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a prior art cage construction;

FIG. 2 is a schematic plan view of a feeding cage and a feeding device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic perspective view of a feeding device according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic perspective view illustrating a connection between a net and a first connecting member according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a baffle plate installed on the main control box according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Reference numbers and corresponding part names in the drawings:

1. a fixing member; 2. a master control device; 21. a main control box body; 22. a main control box cover; 3. a placement device; 31. a turntable base; 32. a feed box; 41. a first drive mechanism; 42. a second drive mechanism; 5. a first connecting member; 6. a first coupling; 7. a display screen; 8. a second connecting member; 9. tucking a net; 10. a third connecting member; 11. a discharge port; 12. a baffle plate; 13. a convex end; 14. a female end; 15. a second coupling; 110. a rearing cage; 111. a wire mesh cover.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to examples and the accompanying drawings, and the exemplary embodiments and descriptions thereof are only used for explaining the present invention and are not used as limiting the present invention.

It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "secured to" or "disposed on" another element, it can be directly on the other element or be indirectly on the other element. When an element is referred to as being "connected to" another element, it can be directly or indirectly connected to the other element.

It is to be understood that the terms "length," "width," "upper," "lower," "front," "rear," "left," "right," "vertical," "horizontal," "top," "bottom," "inner," "outer," and the like are used in an orientation or positional relationship indicated in the drawings for convenience in describing the utility model and to simplify the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the device or element so referred to must be in a particular orientation, constructed or operated in a particular orientation, and is not to be construed as limiting the utility model.

Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless specifically defined otherwise.

The embodiment is as follows:

as shown in fig. 1 to 5, the embodiment of the present application provides an automatic rearing device for a rearing cage 110, comprising a tucking net 9 and a rearing device, wherein the rearing device is provided with a fixing member 1, and the fixing member 1 is clamped with the rearing cage 110;

the feeding device is provided with a first coupler 6 along the horizontal direction, a first connecting piece 5 is arranged in the concave part of the first coupler 6, and the first connecting piece 5 is connected with the pocket net 9;

raise the device and include actuating mechanism, main control unit 2 and put thing device 3, actuating mechanism includes first actuating mechanism 41 and second actuating mechanism 42, first actuating mechanism 41's transmission shaft with first shaft coupling 6 is connected, second actuating mechanism 42 with main control unit 2 is connected, main control unit 2 with it connects to put thing device 3.

As shown in fig. 1, the conventional feeding cage 110 is composed of a feeding cage 110 and a wire cover 111 provided on the feeding cage, a partition is provided in a groove of the wire cover 111 recessed downward, a water feeding area and a feeding area are formed by the partition, and then a worker can place a feed and a water bottle in the two areas, so that the white rat can eat and drink water, and when the food is not needed, the worker can take away the feed left in the feeding area, but for the white rat, different requirements are required for the feeding of the white rat based on different experimental needs in many research teams, for example, in a certain laboratory, the feeding time and the food intake of the white rat are controlled by respectively adding the feed and taking out the feed at the prescribed time in the morning and evening, and if the number of the feeding cages 110 is too large, a lot of time is consumed by the worker. Therefore, as shown in fig. 2, the automatic feeding device is clamped on the protruding portion of the feeding cage 110 by the fixing member 1, as a person skilled in the art will know, the fixing member 1 has a clamping groove along the transverse direction thereof for clamping with the protruding portion of the outer side of the feeding cage 110, the fixing member 1 and the feeding device have positioning holes, the fixing member 1 and the feeding device can be detachably and fixedly connected by the cooperation of the positioning holes and the screws, and the firmness of the feeding device and the feeding cage 110 is ensured. The shape of the net 9 is the same as that of the wire cover 111 of the feeding cage 110, so that the net can be overlapped with the wire cover 111, as a person skilled in the art will know, the area of the net 9 should be smaller than the feeding area of the wire cover 111 properly, therefore, when the net 9 is adhered to the wire cover 111, the second driving mechanism 42 is controlled by the main control device 2 to drive the object placing device 3 to rotate, so that the fodder in the object placing device 3 can fall onto the wire cover 111, when the fodder is not needed to be fed, the main control device 2 controls the first driving mechanism 41 to drive the first coupler 6 to rotate, so that the first connecting member 5 pulls up the net 9 to stop feeding. The first driving mechanism 41 and the second driving mechanism 42 may be stepping motors, so as to ensure that the first coupling 6 and the second coupling 15 can realize forward rotation, reverse rotation and timely locking rotation states.

It should be noted that the length of the first connecting member 5 is just enough to allow the net 9 to be attached to the wire cover 111 of the cage 110.

Because need lift the string bag, leave the wire netting lid 111 of rearging cage 110 for the mouse can't touch the fodder, finishes the food intake, because the mouse can not eat the fodder that drops on pocket net 9 at every turn, consequently in order to guarantee that the fodder does not take place the condition that drops at the in-process that pocket net 9 rises, should know as the technical staff in the art, also need add the baffle in the both sides of pocket net 9, guarantee that the fodder does not take place the phenomenon of dropping.

In some embodiments of the present invention, as shown in fig. 4, the net 9 is provided at one end with a second connecting member 8 for connecting with the bars in the wire cover 111 of the rearing cage 110, and at the other end with a third connecting member 10 for connecting with the bars in the wire cover 111 of the rearing cage 110.

In fig. 4, the second connecting member 8 and the third connecting member 10 are bar-shaped pieces fixedly connected to the net 9, the bar-shaped pieces may be stainless steel pipes or plastic pipes, as those skilled in the art will understand, in order to ensure that the net 9 can be lapped on the wire cover 111, a slot matched with the rod member on the wire cover 111 can be opened on the second connecting member 8, and the third connecting member 10 is vertically connected to the net 9, the connection can be clamped on the net 9, or fixed by screws, and other fixed connection modes can ensure that the third connecting member 10 and the net 9 can form a right angle area. As for the link of first connecting piece 5 and pocket net 9, can use the couple to hang on the horizontal pole of pocket net 9 below, as for the link of being connected with first shaft coupling 6 can hoop, clamp all can, need to guarantee first connecting piece 5 and first shaft coupling 6 can at the steadiness of link, the part that first connecting piece 5 and two links are connected can be the connection rope, guarantees that first shaft coupling 6 can drive the rising and the decline of pocket net 9 through connecting the rope when rotatory.

In some embodiments of the embodiment of the present application, the main control device 2 includes a main control box body 21 and a main control box cover 22 for installing the control chip and the clock chip, the first driving mechanism 41 is fixedly installed in the main control box body 21, the main control box body 21 and the main control box cover 22 can be disassembled to be connected, a display screen 7 is arranged outside the main control box body 21, the display screen 7 and the control chip and the clock chip are electrically connected.

As will be known to those skilled in the art, the first driving mechanism 41 is installed in the main control box 21 because corresponding positioning holes are reserved during design, and the devices are fixed and installed by standard connectors such as screws and nuts. In order to realize that the feeding device installed on the feeding cage 110 can realize automatic operation of feeding time of the mice, therefore, a control chip and a clock chip are installed in the main control device 2, as a person skilled in the art should know, the control device is matched with the control chip and the clock chip, a control circuit, an RTC module and a power supply part are also arranged, the power supply part can be a rechargeable battery or directly supply power by external voltage, the main control device 2 is divided into a main control box body 21 and a main control box cover 22, the control circuit and equipment are mainly placed conveniently, and later maintenance and transformation are facilitated. In order to realize automatic adjustment of feeding time, as a person skilled in the art should know, a server may be additionally installed, after the server is wirelessly connected to WiFi of a control chip, a corresponding website is input on a mobile phone or a computer according to a web address displayed on a display screen 7, then a wireless hotspot in a local area is connected to the web page, a password corresponding to the wireless hotspot is input, after the network is accessed, a time setting page is accessed, feeding time and feeding stop time are input according to feeding requirements on a white mouse, it should be noted that, controlling feeding time by setting time through the web page is all the prior art, and does not involve improvement on a program, for example, a monitoring camera. As should be known to those skilled in the art, one server can be wirelessly connected with a plurality of feeding devices, the display screen 7 can be a 0.96-inch oled display screen 7, and the connection between the display screen 7 and the control chip and the clock chip can be used for displaying the set feeding time, so that the worker can check whether the feeding time set by the worker is wrong or not in time. To sum up, the device of raising of this application still can possess the function of remote control feeding time, further increase the practicality of automatic device of raising.

In some embodiments of the present application, the main control box body 21 is provided with a concave end 14, and the main control box cover 22 is provided with a convex end 13 adapted to the concave end 14.

As shown in fig. 3, the main control box body 21 and the main control box cover 22 can be fixedly connected by the matching of the concave and convex ends 13, and in order to ensure the stability of the box body and the box cover, a plurality of groups of concave ends 14 and convex ends 13 can be arranged to realize the stability of the box body and the box cover.

In some embodiments of the present disclosure, a second coupling 15 is disposed on the main control box cover 22, the second driving mechanism 42 is fixedly mounted on the lower surface of the main control box cover 22, and one end of the second coupling 15 is connected to a transmission shaft of the second driving mechanism 42.

Because the first driving mechanism 41 and the second driving mechanism 42 both adopt step motors, the first coupler 6 and the second coupler 15 are both connected through pins and transmission shafts of the step motors, and the second coupler 15 arranged on the main control box cover 22 mainly drives the second coupler 15 to rotate through the second driving mechanism 42 so as to realize the rotation of the object placing device 3.

In some embodiments of the present application, the storage device 3 includes a bottom bracket 31 and a feed box 32, the bottom bracket 31 is detachably connected to the feed box 32, and the other end of the second coupling 15 is fixedly connected to the feed box 32.

In use, the turntable shoe 31 remains stationary and the second drive mechanism 42 is actuated to rotate the second coupling 15 and thus the feedbox 32.

In some embodiments of the present application, a first supporting member is connected between the bottom support 31 and the main control box cover 22, the first supporting member is sleeved with a first shaft sleeve, a second supporting member is connected between the other end of the second shaft coupling 15 and the feed box 32, and the second supporting member is sleeved with a second shaft sleeve.

Specifically, in order to provide a certain height between the turntable base 31 and the main control box cover 22, and thus add a support member in the middle to increase the distance, the turntable base 31 and the main control box cover 22 are provided with corresponding positioning holes, the first support member is placed from the positioning hole on the turntable base 31, then the first shaft sleeve is sleeved from the placing end, finally the placing end passes through the positioning hole on the main control box cover 22, and finally the first support member is screwed down by using the nut until the turntable base 31 and the main control box cover 22 both abut against the upper end surface and the lower end surface of the first shaft sleeve, which is the same principle for the second coupling 15 and the feed box 32, and therefore, the description thereof is omitted here. The first support member can be selected from M3X 25 screw, the first shaft sleeve can be selected from M3X 10 shaft sleeve, the second support member can be selected from M3X 25 screw, and the second shaft sleeve can be selected from M3X 15 shaft sleeve. The supporting piece and the shaft sleeve can be properly selected according to the size of the positioning hole.

In some of the embodiments of the subject application, the control chip is model number ESP32 and the clock chip is model number DS 1302.

Specifically, the ESP32 is a single-chip microcontroller with low power consumption, and also integrates Wi-Fi and dual-mode bluetooth, so that a networking function can be realized, the deep sleep mode of the ESP32 has extremely low power consumption, the system can run for more than one month when being fully charged once, the DS1302 clock chip is a high-performance, low-power-consumption and real-time clock circuit with RAM, a main power supply/backup power supply dual-power supply pin is added, and the trickle current charging capability of the backup power supply is provided.

In some embodiments of the present application, a plurality of grids for placing the fodder are disposed in the fodder box 32, and the discharge hole 11 larger than the grids is opened on the turntable bottom support 31.

As shown in fig. 3, a plurality of grids for placing the fodder are divided in the fodder box 32, the fodder in each grid can be fed to the white rats in the rearing cage 110 for several days, the fodder stored in one grid is smaller than the quantity which can be accommodated by the pocket net 9, the fodder waste is avoided, and the area of the discharge hole 11 is larger than that of the grids so as to ensure that the fodder in the grids can effectively fall into the pocket net 9.

In some embodiments of the embodiment of the present application, the surface of the main control box body 21 corresponding to the discharge port 11 is provided with an inclined surface inclined downward along the horizontal direction, and two sides of the inclined surface are provided with the baffle plates 12.

Specifically, as shown in fig. 5, in order to prevent the fodder from dropping on the main control box body 21 from both sides of the main control box body 21, so that the fodder does not drop in the net 9, resulting in a waste phenomenon, the baffles 12 are disposed on both sides of the inclined surface of the main control box body 21 for guiding the fodder to drop into the net 9.

The working principle of the utility model is as follows: start actuating mechanism through master control set 2 and control turning to of first shaft coupling 6, with this rising and the decline of pocket net 9 of realizing, when needs feed, with the laminating of the iron wire lid 111 of pocket net 9 and the installation of rearging cage 110 itself, the thing device 3 that puts that is equipped with the fodder in control falls fodder to pocket net 9 on, the little white mouse in the rearging cage 110 can eat the fodder that drops on pocket net 9, with the pocket net 9 pull-up when not needing the feed keep away from the iron wire lid 111 of rearging cage 110 installation itself, thereby realized the automatic operation of adding the fodder every day, reduce the work of the repeatability of machinery, alleviate staff's burden.

The above-mentioned embodiments are intended to illustrate the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention in further detail, and it should be understood that the above-mentioned embodiments are merely exemplary embodiments of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

1. The automatic feeding device for the feeding cage is characterized by comprising a pocket net (9) and a feeding device, wherein a fixing piece (1) is arranged on the feeding device, and the fixing piece (1) is clamped with the feeding cage (110);

the feeding device is provided with a first coupler (6) along the horizontal direction, a first connecting piece (5) is arranged in a concave part of the first coupler (6), and the first connecting piece (5) is connected with the net pocket (9);

raise the device and include actuating mechanism, master control set (2) and put thing device (3), actuating mechanism includes first actuating mechanism (41) and second actuating mechanism (42), the transmission shaft of first actuating mechanism (41) with first shaft coupling (6) are connected, second actuating mechanism (42) with master control set (2) are connected, master control set (2) with put thing device (3) and connect.

2. An automatic feeding device for feeder cages, in accordance with claim 1, characterized in that the tucking net (9) is provided at one end with a second connecting member (8) for connection with the bars in the wire cover (111) of the feeder cage (110) and at the other end with a third connecting member (10) for connection with the bars in the wire cover (111) of the feeder cage (110).

3. The automatic feeding device for the feeding cage according to claim 1, wherein the main control device (2) comprises a main control box body (21) and a main control box cover (22) for installing a control chip and a clock chip, the first driving mechanism (41) is fixedly installed in the main control box body (21), the main control box body (21) and the main control box cover (22) are detachably connected, a display screen (7) is arranged outside the main control box body (21), and the display screen (7) is electrically connected with the control chip and the clock chip.

4. The automatic feeding device for feeder cages according to claim 3, characterized in that the main control box body (21) is provided with a concave end (14), and the main control box cover (22) is provided with a convex end (13) adapted to the concave end (14).

5. An automatic feeding device for a feeding cage according to claim 4, wherein the main control box cover (22) is provided with a second coupling (15), the second driving mechanism (42) is fixedly installed on the lower surface of the main control box cover (22), and one end of the second coupling (15) is connected with the transmission shaft of the second driving mechanism (42).

6. An automatic feeding device for a feeder cage according to claim 5, wherein the storage means (3) comprises a tray support (31) and a feed box (32), the tray support (31) being removably connected to the feed box (32), the other end of the second coupling (15) being fixedly connected to the feed box (32).

7. The automatic feeding device for feeder cages according to claim 6, wherein a first support member is connected between the tray support (31) and the lid (22), and a first sleeve is fitted around the first support member, and a second support member is connected between the other end of the second sleeve (15) and the feed box (32), and a second sleeve is fitted around the second support member.

8. The automatic feeding device for feeder cages according to claim 3, wherein the control chip has a model of ESP32 and the clock chip has a model of DS 1302.

9. The automatic feeding device for feeder cages according to claim 6, wherein the inside of the feed box (32) is provided with a plurality of grids for holding the feed, and the turntable support (31) is provided with a discharge hole (11) larger than the grids.

10. The automatic feeding device for feeder cages according to claim 9, wherein the surface of the main control box body (21) corresponding to the discharging port (11) is provided with an inclined surface inclined downward in the horizontal direction, and the two sides of the inclined surface are provided with the baffle plates (12).

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