JP2005073661A - Device for outputting henhouse-discriminating signal for concentrated egg-collecting device in egg-collecting poultry farm facility - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device for outputting a henhouse-discriminating signal for a concentrated egg-collecting device in egg-collecting poultry farm facilities, equipped with in a plurality of branch-conveying means, installed for each of a plurality of the egg-collecting henhouses and collecting the produced chicken eggs in each of the egg-collecting henhouses and conveying each group of the collected eggs one by one, and a main line-conveying means for conveying the plurality of the egg groups conveyed from each of the branch line-conveying means one by one to an egg-treating device, and also capable of calculating from which henhouse the group of eggs is conveyed into the egg-treating device at that time based on operational information of the branch line-conveying means and main line-conveying means and outputting the corresponding henhouse-discriminating signal. <P>SOLUTION: This device for outputting the henhouse-discriminating signal is provided by calculating from which henhouse the group of eggs is conveyed into the egg-treating device at that time by setting a time point of receiving a signal telling that the conveyance of the egg group of a prescribed egg-collecting henhouse is completed as a starting point for the calculation and based on the operational information of each of the henhouse conveyers and egg-collecting conveyers. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention provides a plurality of egg collection poultry houses, and a plurality of eggs provided in each of the egg collection poultry houses, which are laid in the egg collection poultry house, and sequentially carried out for each of the collected egg groups And a main line conveying means for conveying a plurality of egg groups sequentially carried out from the respective branch line conveying means to an egg processing apparatus, and based on operation information of the branch line conveying means and the main line conveying means. The present invention also relates to an apparatus for calculating which egg group has been fed from which egg collection house the egg being sent to the egg processing apparatus and outputting a corresponding chicken house division signal.

  In a general egg collection facility, as shown in FIG. 4, for example, in a plurality of different egg collection hens 1 to 3, there are thousands to tens of thousands of egg collection chickens of the same breed and the same age. Yes. And the henhouse conveyors 1a-3a are provided for each of the henhouses 1 to 3 for egg collection, and the eggs E laid in the henhouses 1 to 3 for egg collection are collected and conveyed in the Y direction. Thereafter, the egg group collected by each of the chicken house conveyors 1a to 3a is simultaneously carried out to the egg collection conveyor 4, and the egg collection conveyor 4 conveys the egg group in the X direction and sends it to the egg processing apparatus 5 in the next step. . The egg E sent to the egg processing apparatus 5 is processed, for example, into a container for transportation such as an American tray, or after egg washing, drying, egg inspection, weighing, and after each egg weight classification based on the weighing result. Then, a process of filling a predetermined packaging container is performed.

  Eggs laid in the egg-collecting henhouses 1 to 3 are transported by the respective henhouse conveyors 1a to 3a in accordance with the operation status (processing capacity per unit time at that time) of the egg processing apparatus 5 in the next step. The egg processing apparatus 5 is fed with the speed and the conveying speed of the egg collection conveyor 4 being controlled.

  By the way, the management of the egg group in the egg collection facility is carried out for each egg collection poultry house, for example, grasping the replacement time of the chicken (understanding the time when the egg is no longer laid), feeding, early detection of a decrease in the egg production rate, chicken Health management, hygiene management, temperature management, light intensity management, general feeding management, etc. are performed. The management records of these flocks are stored in the egg-collecting poultry facility, and information is provided when there is a disclosure request from the shipping destination.

  On the other hand, in recent years, as a result of a series of food-related incidents and problems, the interest in “food safety” has increased. For example, “This egg is produced in what number poultry house in the trading poultry farm. It has become an urgent need to spread a production history tracking system for eggs that can provide information such as “whether it has been made”. (For example, refer nonpatent literature 1.).

Kimihide Iwama, “Toward the Realization of Food Traceability System”, NRI Intellectual Asset Creation March 2003 Issue, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., February 2003, p. 85-87

  The problems of the general egg collection facility are as follows. That is, the eggs E laid in the egg collection henhouses 1 to 3 are simultaneously carried out onto the egg collection conveyor 4 via the respective henhouse conveyors 1a to 3a. It is impossible to specify whether the egg has been sent from the poultry house, and not only can the history be inquired when inquiries from consumers or problems occur, but it is also managed for each of the aforementioned egg collection poultry houses. There is a problem that the management information of existing eggs cannot be used for tracking the production history of eggs.

  Therefore, in order to solve the above-mentioned problem, a sufficient time is required from the completion of unloading of one poultry house conveyor to the start of unloading of the next other poultry house conveyor. By doing so, the egg groups carried out from the one egg-collecting poultry house and the egg group carried out from the other egg-collecting poultry house are strictly kept in such a way that the egg groups belonging to different egg-collecting poultry houses do not mix with each other. It is also possible to divide them into the egg processing apparatus 5. However, the gap that exists between the time, that is, the removal of the egg group from one egg-collecting poultry house and the removal of the egg group from the other egg-collecting poultry house becomes the waiting time of the egg processing apparatus 5. Therefore, as the number of the gaps increases, the waiting time becomes so large that it cannot be ignored, resulting in a new problem that work efficiency is lowered.

  Thus, in the general egg-collecting poultry facility, it is possible to calculate which egg group has been fed from the egg-collecting poultry house without the work efficiency being reduced. The appearance of a device that outputs a poultry house division signal is desired.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and the object is to provide a plurality of egg collection poultry houses and the respective egg collection poultry houses, and in each egg collection poultry house A plurality of branch line transport means for collecting eggs laid eggs and sequentially transporting each collected egg group, and a trunk line transport for transporting a plurality of egg groups sequentially transported from each branch line transport means to the egg processing apparatus And the egg group sent from the egg-collecting henhouse is calculated based on the operation information of the branch line conveying means and the main line conveying means. An object of the present invention is to provide a poultry house section output device of a central egg collection apparatus in an egg-collecting poultry facility capable of outputting a corresponding poultry house section signal.

  In order to solve the above problems, the present invention collects and collects eggs from a plurality of egg-collecting henhouses and eggs laid in each egg-collecting henhouse and laid in each egg-collecting henhouse A plurality of branch line conveying means for sequentially carrying out each egg group; and a trunk line conveying means for conveying the plurality of egg groups sequentially carried out from the respective branch line conveying means to the egg processing apparatus; and the branch line conveying means and the trunk line Calculation control means for calculating which egg group has been sent from the egg collection house based on the operation information with the transport means and outputting the corresponding chicken house division signal. It is set as the structure provided.

  Further, the operation information of the branch line conveying means is used as a start / stop signal output from each branch line conveying means, the operation information of the main line conveying means is set as an activation stop signal output from the main line conveying means, and each branch line in the main line conveying means It is preferable to use transport distance information from each junction with the transport means to the egg processing apparatus and transport speed information of the main line transport means.

  The operation information of the main line conveying means may be an electric signal output every time the main line conveying means moves a predetermined distance instead of the conveying speed information.

  Further, the calculation control means, the egg egg suspected of belonging to the egg collection house located near the boundary between the egg group carried out from one egg collection house and the egg group carried out from the other egg collection house, It is preferable to determine that the egg belongs to one egg-collecting poultry house or another one egg-collecting poultry house and output a corresponding signal.

  Moreover, you may provide the information provision means which receives the henhouse division signal output from the said arithmetic control means, and provides the information containing the said henhouse division signal to an egg or a storage container.

  The poultry house classification signal output device of the central egg collection apparatus in the egg-collecting poultry facility according to the present invention starts from the point in time when a signal informing that the removal of the egg group in the predetermined egg-collecting poultry house has been completed, Based on the operation information with the egg conveyor, the egg that has been sent to the egg processing unit is calculated as to which egg group has been sent from which egg collection chicken house, so from which egg collection chicken house at the processing stage of the egg processing device It is possible to clearly distinguish whether it is a flock of eggs that have been sent.

  In addition, the poultry house classification signal output device of the concentrated egg collection apparatus in the egg collection facility according to the present invention is a boundary between the egg group carried out from one egg collection poultry house and the egg group carried out from another egg collection poultry house The affiliation of eggs in the vicinity is determined as “a group of eggs removed from one egg collection house or another one from another egg collection house”, resulting in inquiries and problems from consumers. If the egg collection hen is in a suspicious area, the egg group is "a group of eggs carried out from one egg collection house or another group of eggs carried out from another egg collection house" The significance of being able to track the history is great.

  The reason for deciding a chicken egg suspected of belonging to the above-mentioned egg collection house as "a group of eggs carried out of one egg collection house or another group of eggs collected from another egg collection house" is It is highly possible that a misjudgment would be determined as “the egg group carried out of the poultry house” or “the egg group carried out of the other egg-collecting poultry house”, and the egg belonging to the above-mentioned egg-collecting poultry house is suspect This is because it is preferable from the standpoint of avoiding misjudgment to determine “a chicken group carried out from one egg-collecting poultry house or an egg group carried out from another egg-collecting poultry house”.

  Furthermore, the poultry house division signal output device of the central egg collection apparatus in the egg collection and poultry facility according to the present invention includes the poultry house division signal output from the apparatus, for example, from "chicken number for egg collection", "from chicks to laying hens" Is converted into information such as code numbers and bar codes where information such as “content of feed” and “vaccination status” is recorded, and the converted information includes “date of egg collection” and “name of egg collection facility” ”,“ Producer name ”, etc. are transmitted to the printer, and in the egg processing apparatus, for example, a process for directly printing on the eggshell surface of the egg, a process for printing the information on a label and inserting it into a packaging container Alternatively, a process for directly printing on the packaging container is performed, and an information recording medium such as an IC tag is provided in the temporary transport container to perform a process for recording the information in a non-contact manner from the information providing unit. Constitution Since the we have to, inquiry or problems from the consumer becomes possible to perform Tekisen the inquiry of production history when that occurred.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 is a plan view for explaining a poultry house segment signal output device S of a central egg collection apparatus in an egg collection / fowling facility according to the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the henhouse division signal output device S of the central egg collection apparatus in the egg collection and poultry facility according to the present invention is roughly divided into a plurality of different egg collection henhouses 1 to 3 and the respective egg collection henhouses 1 to 1. A plurality of poultry house conveyors 1a to 3a that collect eggs laid in the egg collection hens 1 to 3 and sequentially carry out the eggs collected in the egg collection hens 1 to 3 in the Y direction. And an egg collection conveyor 4 that is provided at the discharge ends of the chicken house conveyors 1a to 3a and that conveys a plurality of egg groups sequentially carried out from the chicken house conveyors 1a to 3a in the X direction and sends them to the egg processing apparatus 5. ing. And, which egg group has been fed from any egg collection henhouses 1 to 3 based on the operation information of each of the henhouse conveyors 1a to 3a and the egg collection conveyor 4? Arithmetic control means 6 is provided for calculating and outputting a corresponding poultry house segment signal. Furthermore, a converter 7a and a printer 7b are provided for receiving the poultry house section signal output from the arithmetic control means 6 and applying information including the poultry house section signal to the eggs or the container.

  The poultry house conveyors 1a to 3a provided in the respective egg-collecting poultry houses 1 to 3 are provided with operation panels 1b to 3b for operating start and stop of the poultry house conveyors, respectively, and the operation panels 1b to 3b. Is provided with a start button and a stop button (not shown). When the operator operates the start button, the start signal is transmitted to the arithmetic control means 6 which will be described later, the poultry house conveyor is started, and the egg group collected in the poultry house is conveyed in the Y direction. It is configured to be carried out on the egg collection conveyor 4. Further, when the operator operates the stop button, the stop signal is transmitted to the arithmetic control means 6 described later, and the poultry house conveyor is stopped. Each of the poultry house conveyors 1a to 3a is provided with an interlock function for restricting the remaining poultry house conveyors from being activated while any of the poultry house conveyors is activated. It is the structure which prevents that egg E of this mixes. (Not shown)

  The egg collection conveyor 4 is constituted by, for example, a bar conveyor or the like in which a gap is formed between bars (not shown). And while the egg E was being transported to the egg processing apparatus 5, the transport of the egg collection conveyor 4 was stopped for some reason (for example, trouble in the egg collection conveyor 4 itself, stop of the egg processing apparatus 5). In this case, the conveyance stop signal is transmitted to the calculation control means 6 described later, and then the conveyance return signal is transmitted to the calculation control means 6 when the conveyance is restored again.

  The egg processing apparatus 5 is a farm packer that performs a process of filling the eggs E that have been fed by the egg collection conveyor 4 into a transport container such as an American tray, egg washing, drying, egg inspection, and weighing. After that, it is configured by an automatic sorting and packaging apparatus or the like that performs processing for sorting for each egg weight category based on the measurement result and filling a predetermined packaging container.

The arithmetic control means 6 has the following functions.
(A) Based on the activation signal (operation information of the chicken house conveyor) transmitted from any one of the chicken house conveyors 1a to 3a, the egg group to be sent to the egg processing apparatus 5 from now on is any egg collection. Recognize whether it will be removed from the poultry house.
(B) Based on a stop signal (operation information of the poultry house conveyor) transmitted from the predetermined poultry house conveyor, it is recognized that carrying out of the egg group from the predetermined egg collection poultry house has been completed.
(C) Moreover, the stop signal of the said henhouse conveyor was received based on the stop signal (operation information of this henhouse conveyor) of the said henhouse conveyor informing that the carrying-out of the egg group from the said predetermined egg collection henhouse was completed From the time point as the starting point, the carrying speed information V of the egg collection conveyor 4 and the conveyance distance information L from the junction with the chicken house conveyor on the egg collection conveyor 4 to the egg processing apparatus 5 are carried out from the egg collection poultry house. The estimated arrival time until the last egg E of the egg group thus reached the egg processing apparatus 5 is calculated.
(D) For the egg E that reaches the egg processing apparatus 5 within the calculated estimated arrival time, it is calculated that it is a group of eggs carried out from the egg collection house recognized in (a) above. The poultry house classification signals such as “chicken house number”, “content of feed from chicks to laying hens”, “vaccination status”, etc. are output. The poultry house classification signal is converted into information such as a code number and a bar code in the converter 7a. In addition to the above information, "egg collection date", "egg raising facility name", "producer name", etc. Information is added, and this information is given to the egg E or the container by the printer 7b.
(E) When the conveyance of the egg collection conveyor 4 is stopped for some reason, the last egg E in the egg group carried out from the egg collection chicken house cannot reach the egg processing apparatus 5 within the initially calculated estimated arrival time. . In such a case, the eggs that reach the egg processing apparatus 5 after the elapse of the originally scheduled arrival time may be mistaken for a group of eggs carried out from another egg collection henhouse. The operation information based on the transport stop signal and the transport return signal transmitted from the egg conveyor 4, that is, which egg group is transported from the egg collection poultry house during the transport time not including the stop time of the egg collection conveyor 4. Calculate.
(F) Even if the boundary between the egg group carried out from one egg collection poultry house and the egg group carried out from the other egg collection poultry house is obtained by calculation, it may not always match the calculation result. Therefore, the egg E existing in the vicinity of the boundary obtained by the above calculation is the egg E belonging to either one egg-collecting house or one other egg-collecting house as an egg E in which the egg-collecting house is suspected to belong. And outputs a signal corresponding to this.

  Next, an operation example of the henhouse section signal output device S of the concentrated egg collection device in the egg collection facility according to the present invention will be described. First, the egg processing apparatus 5 is operated, and then the egg collection conveyor 4 is driven. Thereafter, when an operator operates the start button of the operation panel 1b of the poultry house conveyor 1a provided in the egg collection poultry house 1, the start signal is transmitted to the arithmetic control means 6 and the poultry house conveyor 1a is activated. And the arithmetic control means 6 is based on the starting signal (operation information of the poultry house conveyor 1a) transmitted from the poultry house conveyor 1a, from which poultry house the egg group to be sent to the egg processing apparatus 5 is carried out. recognize.

  Thereafter, the eggs collected in the egg collection poultry house 1 are successively carried out to the egg collection conveyor 4, and the operator visually confirms that all the eggs E have been carried out from the poultry house conveyor 1a, and then the operation panel 1b is stopped. Operate the button. As a result of the operation, a stop signal is transmitted from the poultry house conveyor 1a to the calculation control means 6, and the poultry house conveyor 1a stops. And the calculation control means 6 recognizes that the carrying-out of the egg group from the egg-collecting henhouse 1 was completed based on the stop signal (operation information of the henhouse conveyor 1a) transmitted from the henhouse conveyor 1a.

  Furthermore, the calculation control means 6 receives the stop signal based on the stop signal (operation information of the chicken house conveyor 1a) of the chicken house conveyor 1a informing that the carrying out of the egg group of the egg collection chicken house 1 has been completed. For the egg collection using the conveyance speed information V of the egg collection conveyor 4 and the conveyance distance information L1 from the junction a with the chicken house conveyor 1a on the egg collection conveyor 4 to the egg processing apparatus 5. A scheduled arrival time t <b> 1 until the last chicken egg E of the egg group carried out from the chicken house 1 reaches the egg processing apparatus 5 is calculated.

  Next, after the operator visually confirms that the last egg E in the egg group carried out from the egg-collecting chicken house 1 has passed through the junction b with the chicken house conveyor 2a on the egg collection conveyor 4, the egg-collecting egg is used for egg collection. When the start button of the operation panel 2b of the poultry house conveyor 2a provided in the poultry house 2 is operated, the start signal is transmitted to the arithmetic control means 6 and the poultry house conveyor 2a is activated. And the arithmetic control means 6 is based on the starting signal (operation information of the poultry house conveyor 2a) transmitted from the poultry house conveyor 2a and from which poultry house the egg group to be sent to the egg processing apparatus 5 is carried out. recognize.

  Thereafter, the eggs collected in the egg collection chicken house 2 are successively carried out to the egg collection conveyor 4, and after the operator visually confirms that all the eggs E have been carried out from the chicken house conveyor 2a, the operation panel 2b is stopped. Operate the button. As a result of the operation, a stop signal is transmitted from the poultry house conveyor 2a to the calculation control means 6, and the poultry house conveyor 2a stops. And the calculation control means 6 recognizes that the carrying-out of the egg group from the egg-collecting henhouse 2 was completed based on the stop signal (operation information of the henhouse conveyor 2a) transmitted from the henhouse conveyor 2a.

  On the other hand, the calculation control means 6 determines that the egg E that has reached the egg processing apparatus 5 within the calculated estimated arrival time t1 is a group of eggs that have been sent from the egg-collecting henhouse 1, and enters the egg-collecting henhouse 1. The corresponding poultry house classification signal is output. As described above, if there is no trouble before the egg group carried out from the egg-collecting poultry house 1 is sent to the egg processing apparatus 5, the last egg E is transferred to the egg processing apparatus 5 within the scheduled time t1. It is normal to reach.

  Then, the poultry house classification signal output from the arithmetic control means 6 is converted into, for example, “egg collection poultry house number 1”, “content of feed from chicks to laying hens”, “vaccination status” in the converter 7a. "Or the like" is converted into information such as a recorded code number or a barcode. Further, information obtained by adding “egg collection date”, “egg collection facility name”, “producer name”, etc. to the converted information is transmitted to the printer 7b. A process of directly printing on the eggshell surface, a process of printing the information on a label and inserting it into a packaging container, or a process of printing directly on the packaging container is performed.

  In parallel with the above-described steps, the arithmetic control means 6 uses the henhouse conveyor 2a informing that the removal of the egg group in the egg-collecting henhouse 2 has been completed in the same manner as described in the case of the removal of the egg group in the egg-collecting henhouse 1. Based on the stop signal (operation information of the poultry house conveyor), the time when the stop signal is received is used as a starting point, and the conveyance speed information V of the egg collection conveyor 4 and the egg collection conveyor 4 and the poultry house conveyor 2a merge. Using the transport distance information L2 from the point b to the egg processing apparatus 5, the estimated arrival time t2 until the tail egg E of the egg group carried out from the egg collection hen 2 reaches the egg processing apparatus 5 is calculated. To do.

  Similarly, the calculation control means 6 determines that the egg E that has reached the egg processing apparatus 5 within the calculated estimated arrival time t2 is a group of eggs that have been sent from the egg-collecting henhouse 2, and the egg-collecting henhouse 2 The poultry house classification signal corresponding to is output. As described above, if there is no trouble before the egg group carried out from the egg-collecting henhouse 2 is sent to the egg processing apparatus 5, the last egg E is transferred to the egg processing apparatus 5 within the estimated arrival time t2. It is normal to reach.

  Then, the poultry house classification signal output from the arithmetic control means 6 is converted into, for example, “egg collection poultry house number 2”, “content of feed from chicks to laying hens”, “vaccination status” in the converter 7a. "Or the like" is converted into information such as a recorded code number or a barcode. Further, information obtained by adding “egg collection date”, “egg collection facility name”, “producer name”, etc. to the converted information is transmitted to the printer 7b. A process of directly printing on the eggshell surface, a process of printing the information on a label and inserting it into a packaging container, or a process of printing directly on the packaging container is performed.

  In parallel with the above-mentioned process, the operator visually confirms that the last egg E of the egg group carried out from the egg collection chicken house 2 has passed through the junction c between the egg collection conveyor 4 and the chicken house conveyor 3a. After that, when the start button of the operation panel 3b of the poultry house conveyor 3a provided in the egg collection poultry house 3 is operated, the start signal is transmitted to the arithmetic control means 6 and the poultry house conveyor 3a is activated. And the calculation control means 6 recognizes that the affiliation of the egg group which should be sent to the egg processing apparatus 5 from now on is based on the starting signal (operation information of the chicken house conveyor 3a) transmitted from the chicken house conveyor 3a. . Since subsequent operations are the same as those described so far, description thereof will be omitted. In addition, about the egg E which reaches | attains the egg processing apparatus 5 after progress of the said arrival time, it determines with belonging to the subsequent egg group.

  In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the egg group K2 carried out from the egg collection house 2 is conveyed on the egg collection conveyor 4 behind the egg group K1 carried out from the egg collection house 1. The control of the arithmetic control means 6 when the egg collection conveyor 4 stops due to some trouble while the egg group K1 carried out from the egg-collecting poultry house 1 is being sent to the egg processing apparatus 5 will now be described.

  First, it is assumed that the estimated arrival time t1 until the last chicken egg E1 in the egg group K1 carried out from the egg collection chicken house 1 reaches the egg processing apparatus 5 is calculated as 30 minutes.

  When the conveyance of the egg collection conveyor 4 stops due to some trouble in the above-described state, a conveyance stop signal is transmitted from the egg collection conveyor 4 to the arithmetic control means 6. In the meantime, it is assumed that the operator investigated and repaired the cause of the conveyance stop of the egg collection conveyor 4 during that time, and was repaired after 8 minutes. When the conveyance of the egg collection conveyor 4 is resumed, a conveyance return signal is transmitted from the egg collection conveyor 4 to the arithmetic control means 6.

  The calculation control means 6 calculates the time during which the egg collection conveyor 4 is operating based on a conveyance stop signal and a conveyance return signal (operation information of the egg collection conveyor 4) transmitted from the egg collection conveyor 4. Then, without including the time t3 = 8 minutes when the conveyance of the egg collection conveyor 4 is stopped, the egg processing is performed within the cumulative operation time of 30 minutes after the egg collection conveyor 4 has been operated from the reception of the stop signal of the chicken house conveyor 1a. The egg E that has reached the apparatus 5 is determined to be the egg group K1 carried out from the egg-collecting poultry house 1. Since the subsequent operation is the same as that of the first embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

  Eggs are in an unstable shape called “egg-shaped”, so in the vicinity of the boundary between a group of eggs transported from one egg collection house and a group of eggs transported from another egg collection house, In some cases, some eggs fall outside the group of eggs to which they belong, and are mixed with other groups of eggs. Therefore, in such a case, even if the boundary between the egg group carried out from one egg collection poultry house and the egg group carried out from the other egg collection poultry house is obtained by calculation, the boundary obtained by the calculation is used. Then, there is a great risk that it is not possible to appropriately determine the affiliation of the egg-collecting poultry house for the eggs existing in the vicinity of the boundary. In the present embodiment, description will be given of how to determine the egg collection hen house at the boundary where the egg suspicion of belonging to the egg collection hen house exists.

  As shown in FIG. 2, suppose that the egg group K2 carried out from the egg-collecting henhouse 2 is currently conveyed on the egg collection conveyor 4 behind the egg group K1 carried out from the egg-collecting henhouse 1. Then, the calculation control means 6 calculates the boundary B between the egg group K1 carried out from the egg collection henhouse 1 and the egg group K2 carried out from the egg collection henhouse 2 based on the operation information of the egg collection conveyor 4. Assume.

  As explained at the beginning of this embodiment, in the region D in the vicinity of the boundary B, the egg E2 of the egg group K2 carried out from the egg collection house 2 in the egg group K1 carried out from the egg collection house 1 is located. There is a high possibility that the eggs E1 are mixed in the egg group K1 carried out from the egg collection house 1 into the egg group K2 carried out from the egg collection house 2 or conversely. In such a case, when the boundary is obtained by calculation, there is a risk of misrecognizing the affiliation of the hen's egg collection house in the region D. Therefore, the calculation control means 6 determines the affiliation of eggs existing within the range of, for example, 300 mm before and after the calculation boundary B obtained by the calculation as “the egg group K1 carried out from the egg collection poultry house 1 or It is determined that the egg group belongs to one of the egg groups K2 carried out from the egg-collecting poultry house 2, and a corresponding signal, for example, an egg-collecting poultry house mixed signal is output, and the converter 7a and the printer 7b It is configured to send to. In the determination, it is determined that the eggs existing in the region D are “the egg group K1 carried out from the egg-collecting poultry house 1” or “the egg group K2 carried out from the egg-collecting poultry house 2”. It is not something to do.

  Then, similarly to the case described in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, information corresponding to the output signal is given to the egg or the container in the egg processing apparatus 5. In addition, about the setting of the said area | region D, as described in the present Example, you may set by the distance before and behind the said boundary B, and compute the time when the said boundary B reaches | attains the egg processing apparatus 5, For example, a range of several seconds before and after the arrival time may be set as the region D. Needless to say, this set time can be set arbitrarily.

  In this specification, when calculating which egg group the egg being fed to the egg processing apparatus is the egg group that has been fed from the egg collection house, from each confluence with each chicken house conveyor in the egg collection conveyor to the egg processing apparatus An example of calculating the estimated arrival time until the last egg of the egg group carried out from the predetermined egg-collecting henhouse reaches the egg processing apparatus using the transfer distance information and the transfer speed information of the main line transfer means However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the pulse signal is output every time the egg collection conveyor moves by a predetermined distance, starting from the time when the calculation control means receives the stop signal of the poultry house conveyor, and the pulse signal The time point when the number of outputs becomes a predetermined number may be calculated.

  Moreover, in this specification, although the example which divides a hen egg group with the egg collection henhouse has been demonstrated, it is not limited to the said Example, As shown in FIG. 3, it is comprised by 4-5 chambers, for example In a large-scale egg farming facility in which a large number of cage rows N are arranged side by side with a large number of cage units n for rearing, one cage row N is divided into one egg group, and a division signal for each cage row N is generated. It may be output.

  In this specification, as an example of giving information including a poultry house division signal, a process of printing directly on the eggshell surface of a chicken egg, a process of printing on a label and charging into a packaging container, or a process of printing directly on a packaging container However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment. For example, when the egg processing apparatus is a farm packer that fills a transport container such as an American tray, a transport container such as an American tray is used. An information recording medium, such as an IC tag, may be provided in such a manner that information including the poultry house division signal is applied in a non-contact manner from an information providing means (not shown) instead of a printer.

  In this specification, it demonstrates by the example which performs starting and a stop of each poultry house conveyors 1a-3a and carrying out of the next other poultry house conveyor from the completion of carrying out of one poultry house conveyor based on visual confirmation of an operator. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the time for carrying out the egg group from the egg-collecting poultry house (operating time of each poultry house conveyor) is arbitrarily set to carry out automatically. From the completion of unloading to the start of unloading of the next other poultry house conveyor may be automated based on the information of the junction points a, b, c with the respective poultry house conveyors 1a to 3a on the egg collection conveyor 4.

It is a top view explaining the egg collection poultry facility which employ | adopted the poultry house division | segmentation signal output device S of this invention. It is a top view explaining the example of operation of the present invention. It is a perspective view explaining another Example of this invention. It is a top view explaining a general egg collection poultry facility.

Explanation of symbols

1 to 3 Egg collection poultry house 1a to 3a Chicken house conveyor 1b to 3b Operation panel 4 Egg collection conveyor 5 Egg processing device 6 Arithmetic control means 7a Converter 7b Printer a to c Junction point B Boundary D area E Egg n cage unit N cage Row S poultry house division signal output device

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  A plurality of egg collection poultry houses, and a plurality of branch line conveying means provided in each of the egg collection poultry houses, for collecting eggs laid in each of the egg collection poultry houses, and sequentially carrying out each collected egg group And a main line conveying means for conveying a plurality of egg groups sequentially carried out from the respective branch line conveying means to an egg processing apparatus, and the egg processing based on operation information of the branch line conveying means and the main line conveying means The chicken house of the central egg collection facility in the egg-collecting poultry facility provided with an operation control means for calculating which egg group has been sent from the egg collection house and outputting the corresponding chicken house division signal Division signal output device.   The operation information of the branch line transfer means is a start / stop signal output from each branch line transfer means, and the operation information of the main line transfer means is an activation stop signal output from the main line transfer means, the main line transfer means 2. The henhouse section signal output device of the concentrated egg collection device in the egg-collecting poultry facility according to claim 1, wherein the information is the transport distance information from each junction with each branch line transport means to the egg processing apparatus and the transport speed information of the trunk line transport means. .   3. The poultry house of the concentrated egg collecting apparatus in the egg-collecting poultry facility according to claim 2, wherein the operation information of the trunk line conveying means is an electric signal output every time the trunk line conveying means moves a predetermined distance instead of the conveying speed information. Division signal output device.   The arithmetic and control means is configured to replace a hen egg suspected of belonging to an egg collection house located near the boundary between an egg group carried out from one egg collection house and an egg group carried out from another egg collection house. The concentration in the egg-collecting poultry facility according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein it is determined that the egg belongs to either the egg-collecting poultry house or one of the other egg-collecting poultry houses, and a corresponding signal is output. An egg collection device poultry house division signal output device.   5. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an information providing unit that receives the poultry house division signal output from the calculation control unit and assigns information including the poultry house division signal to the egg or the container. A poultry house division signal output device of a central egg collection device in an egg collection facility.