Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
  • A01K63/00—Receptacles for live fish, e.g. aquaria; Terraria
  • A01K63/02—Receptacles specially adapted for transporting live fish
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
  • A01K63/00—Receptacles for live fish, e.g. aquaria; Terraria
  • A01K63/04—Arrangements for treating water specially adapted to receptacles for live fish

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• the present invention relates to a module for the preservation and transport of living products of the sea.
• the invention also covers the complete live crustacean conservation and transport device integrating at least one module.
• the term "living products of the sea” means:
• molluscs such as oysters, abalone
• echinoderms such as sea urchins, or
• the problem is the transport of the livewell on the one hand and the water contained in the livewell on the other hand.
• the weight of the marketable material ie the weight of seafood, is not a problem but that of the container on the one hand and water on the other hand are highly penalizing.
• containers in which are arranged seafood with means for oxygenating and treating the fluid in which are disposed said products.
• These containers include bins to distribute the mass of products with water treatment means.
• the purpose of the present invention is to overcome the problems that have just been exposed by allowing an application to the transport of fishery products from fishing in the wild such as those from aquaculture.
• the device according to the present invention solves the problem of the weight of water to be transported by reducing its volume and therefore its weight to the minimum necessary for the benefit of seafood.
• the present description relates more particularly to the transport of crustaceans and in particular lobsters but complementary arrangements show the application to other products, without modification of the present invention.
• the device according to the present invention allows an extremely simple and fast distribution while maintaining the traceability of each of the products of the sea or at least lots of these products.
• the device according to the present invention is of a reduced cost and limits the stress of the products of the sea, in particular by limiting the transfers.
• Figure 1 a perspective view of the device with walls of modules in a transport container, with lobsters,
• FIG. 2 a perspective view of the empty device with a module comprising a limited number of housings to understand the detailed architecture
• Figure 3 a view of a housing in a module of the device, occupied by a lobster,
• FIG. 4 a view of the interlocking means of the housing modules
• Figure 5 a view of lobster extraction from a module
• Figure 6 is a view of an arrangement for other seafood, including molluscs.
• the device 10 comprises a container 12 with at least one module 14 and a water treatment installation 16, see FIG.
• the container 12 shown is a container adapted to the mode of transport and the necessary standards, this does not interest the present invention, these containers being known.
• This type of container is waterproof and accessible through a sealed door.
• This type of container is resistant to corrosion by seawater.
• the module 14 according to the present invention is a block of lightweight material, resistant to corrosion by seawater, inert, of the expanded polymer type such as polystyrene already used for packaging fish, crustaceans and whose inert nature n ' is more to prove.
• This light material is in the form of a generally molded parallelepiped.
• This parallelepiped comprises a length L and a width I defining a front face FF and a rear face RF as shown in FIG.
• the third dimension is the thickness E of this module.
• This thickness JE is of a size equal to the overall length of the product of the sea to introduce, in this case a lobster, tongs included.
• the width is intended to be oriented vertically, the length is oriented horizontally and the thickness JE is oriented also horizontally. In all cases the orientation will be adapted to the species.
• the module comprises housings 18, oriented parallel to the thickness E and opening on the two front faces FF and rear RF. The dwellings are therefore crossing.
• housings 18 are preferably cylindrical and of a diameter D adapted to allow the introduction of a lobster, including the clamps, as shown in Figure 3.
• Each housing 18 is on its opening opening on the rear face RF means 20 partial shutter.
• These partial closure means 20 comprise at least one bar 22, for example a bar integrally molded or reported, arranged in a diameter or two bars forming a cross. These partial closure means prohibit crustacean, including lobster, to move and exit through the opening of the housing 18 opening on said rear face.
• These partial closure means 20 allow the water to flow through and does not constitute in any case a closure intended to make the housing 18 one-eyed,
• these partial closure means 20 have, according to an improvement of the present invention, a secabie character whose utility will be explained further in the description,
• each module comprises means 24 for positioning and interlocking with an adjacent module, for example in the form of pins 26, arranged in the angles of the different faces, as shown in FIG. 4.
• the storage and transport device thus consists of at least one module in which seafood, in this case lobsters, are arranged one per housing.
• the introduction is performed by the front so that the tail of each lobster abuts against the means 20 partial shutter.
• the housing is horizontal, it is easy to fill these housing one by one.
• first module wall Once the first module wall is completed, it is possible to erect a second wall and fill the lobster housing as well.
• the walls can thus succeed one another by juxtaposition.
• the rear partial closing means of a module of a wall also constitutes means of partial closure before the housing of the juxtaposed module of the juxtaposed wall.
• the implementation is extremely fast.
• the container 12 is then sealed.
• the treatment means 16 can then come into action first by introducing water of suitable composition in salinity, oxygen and other inorganic and / or nutritive compounds into the container, so there is an incoming flow.
• the container may be filled with water in the form of a liquid bath or in the form of water sprayed continuously.
• the container is filled with water, it is understood that the volume of water is only that of housing minus the volume of lobsters so that the amount of water is very limited.
• the essential volume of the container is occupied by the lobsters and the light material constituting the modules.
• the water is then evacuated and constitutes an outflow after passing through all the modules.
• the lobsters are in adapted living conditions.
• shocks, vibrations, movements of the containers they are largely damped by water and the lightweight material which necessarily has a high absorption capacity.
• the walls can be dismantled and the modules with their lobsters are distributed according to the destinations, without taking out said lobsters from their homes.
• Lobsters have been taken as an example but one can imagine crabs, oysters, abalone directly placed in bulk but this can be difficult for products such as small size molluscs, some echinoderms or small fish.
• An additional container 28 is then provided which receives a number of small sea products depending on the type of products.
• This container 28 is itself intended to be arranged in a housing 18, therefore of smaller dimensions than those of a housing 18, with the clearance allowing a free interlocking or soft friction.
• This container necessarily comprises openings 30 on both sides so as to let the inflow of incoming water and the flow of water out. It is also possible to provide openings on the side faces if necessary.
• This container 28 must be able to be traversed by the flow of water.
• the openings 30 are on the other hand dimensioned so that the products of the sea remain in said container without being able to escape.

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