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- the present invention generally refers to transporting live poultry from rearing to slaughter sites.
- a system for transporting live poultry comprising a supporting frame and a plurality of drawer-type cages open at the upper part and arranged in mutually stacked condition in the framework in such a manner that the bottom of a drawer-type cage serves as the cover for the underlying drawer-type cage.
- the drawer-type cages have lateral walls with aeration openings for ventilating the poultry contained therein and they are extractable only towards the back side of the frame opposite to its front side at which, in use, the poultry to be transported is introduced into the drawer-type cages.
- This solution allows loading the poultry in a particularly simple and practical manner, without negative influence on the subsequent unloading operations at the end of the transport operation.
- the present invention represents an improvement of the invention according to document EP-1330952B1, and it has the object of efficiently adapting the transport system according to such document to the variation of climatic and environmental conditions in such a manner to reduce the stress to which the poultry is subjected during transport to the maximum.
- each of the abovementioned drawer-type cages has a lateral wall substantially without aeration openings and intended to be selectively positioned at one side (for example the front side) or the opposite side (for example the back side) of the supporting frame.
- the front side of the frame is typically arranged facing a side of the truck deck, whose width is usually suitable to accommodate adjacent pairs of transporting units.
- the front side of the frame is thus directly exposed to the external environment, usually not sheltered or protected so as not to jeopardise the ventilation of the poultry.
- the possibility of positioning the lateral wall without aeration openings of the drawer-type cages selectively at the front side of the supporting frame or at the opposite side allows adapting the unit to the climatic and atmospheric transport conditions in an easy and simple manner: thus, with mild or summer temperatures and good weather conditions poultry transport may occur arranging the drawers with their lateral walls without openings facing inwards the truck, so as to allow ventilation of the poultry through the openings of the opposite lateral wall facing outwards. Under low temperatures and harsh climatic conditions the arrangement shall be inverted, so as to protect the poultry against cold and bad weather. In the second case, the ventilation of the poultry shall still be guaranteed by the aeration openings of the other walls, as well as due to the vertical separation between the drawer-type cages fitted into the supporting frame.
- the supporting frame may be shaped in such a manner to receive just one pile or two adjacent piles of the stacked drawer-type cages.
- the arrangement and size of the cages and of the frame are such that the width of the loading deck of a transport truck, usually comprised between 2.40 and 2.55 metres, may be entirely occupied with a series of pairs of piles of adjacent drawer-type cages arranged in respective pairs of single supporting frames, or in double supporting frames.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic front perspective view of a transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck according to an embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 is a dorsal perspective view of the unit
- FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 4 is a view analogous to FIG. 3 showing a different configuration of the unit
- FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of one of the drawer-type cages of the transporting unit represented in FIGS. 1-4 .
- FIG. 6 is a diagram exemplifying, in top plan view, possible arrangements of units for transporting poultry according to the invention on board a truck.
- reference number 1 in its entirety represents a unit or module according to the invention transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck.
- the unit 1 comprises a robust metal supporting frame 2 generally parallelepiped-shaped and prearranged to support a pile of stacked drawer-type cages 3 (five of them in the illustrated example), one of which is represented in detail in FIG. 5 .
- the supporting frame 2 may be dimensioned to receive a single pile of drawer-type cages 3 , as in the case of the embodiment represented in the drawings, or two piles of adjacent drawer-type cages 3 .
- Each of the drawer-type cages 3 is conveniently formed by a generally parallelepiped body made of moulded plastic material with a bottom wall 4 , larger lateral walls 5 , 6 (about 1271 mm long) and smaller lateral walls 7 (about 1211 mm long), open at the upper part.
- These drawer-type cages may be conveniently analogous to those manufactured and sold by Giordano Poultry Plast S.p.A. according to patent EP-0867113B1, with a substantial difference: while the larger lateral walls 5 and the smaller lateral walls 7 are obtained with respective plurality of aeration openings, typically grid-configured, the larger lateral wall 6 is closed, in that without aeration openings.
- Such lateral wall 6 has a pair of spaced slits 8 useable as handles for holding the drawer-type cage 3 .
- each drawer-type cage 3 is preferably, though not necessarily, also substantially without openings.
- the supporting frame 2 comprises a pallet base 9 , for manipulating the unit 1 by means of fork lifts or the like, extending from which are corner uprights 10 joined at the upper part by an extractable top frame 12 .
- Horizontally fixed to the uprights 10 are lateral guides 13 for supporting the sliding of the drawer-type cages 3 , positioned in such a manner that such drawer-type cages 3 stacked in the frame 1 are separated from each other vertically, with the bottom wall 4 of each drawer-type cage 3 serving as a cover—though spaced at the upper part—of the underlying drawer-type cage 3 .
- the upper drawer-type cage 3 is closed by the top cover 12 .
- the frame 2 is also configured in such a manner to allow partial or total sliding extraction of the drawer-type cages 3 along the guide 13 only on the part of the dorsal side of the frame 2 , indicated with 2 b in FIG. 2 and which—to obtain such effect—is not closed. Extraction is instead hindered on the opposite side or front side, indicated with 2 a in FIGS. 1 and 3 , 4 .
- applied along the front side 2 a are additional vertical uprights 14 against which the larger lateral walls 5 or respectively 6 of the drawer-type cages 3 abut.
- the sides of the supporting frame 1 may also be made rigid by means of further diagonal elements 15 .
- the unit 1 thus loaded is transferred onto the deck of a truck.
- the dimensions of the unit 1 are such that a normal truck deck for example allows adjacent positioning thereof two by two, with the front sides 2 a of the respective supporting frames 2 facing outwards.
- the arrangement is such to advantageously occupy the entire width of the deck.
- the drawer-type cages 3 may be entirely slidingly extracted from the dorsal side 2 b of the frame 2 .
- the transporting unit 1 may be easily adapted to the climatic and environmental transport conditions, to obtain uttermost reduction of the stress the poultry is subjected to during transfer from the rearing to the slaughter site.
- This is obtained according to the invention by arranging the drawer-type cages 3 into the supporting frame 2 with the respective walls 6 without openings selectively at the front side 2 a or at the dorsal side 2 b of the frame 2 .
- the poultry contained in the drawer-type cages 3 with the supporting frame 2 arranged on the truck deck with its front side 2 a facing outwards, is better protected in case of low temperature and/or bad weather.
- the aeration of the poultry inside the drawer-type cages 3 is still guaranteed by the openings of the walls 5 and 7 facing inwards the truck, as well as the vertical separation between such drawer-type cages 3 .
- FIG. 6 exemplifies the methods for positioning the transporting unit 1 according to the invention on the loading deck P of a transport truck A.
- the dimensions of the width of the loading deck P of the transport trucks A is comprised between 2.40 and 2.55 metres.
- the unit 1 represented in the drawings has a larger horizontal dimension (corresponding to the side for loading the poultry into the drawer-type cages 3 ) measuring about 1350 mm and a smaller horizontal dimension measuring about 1211 mm: by arranging the units 1 two by two adjacent to each other in the direction of the smaller dimension, and with the front loading sides 2 a of the respective frames 2 facing the opposite sides of the deck P of the truck A, such deck P may be entirely occupied covering its entire width. This is represented in the two bottom diagrams of FIG. 6 , the left one corresponding to a summer environmental condition and the right one to a winter environmental condition.
- the drawer-type cages 3 are arranged in respective frames 2 with the closed lateral walls 6 facing inwards, while in the second case the closed lateral walls 6 face outwards.
- the position of the front loading sides 2 a of the frame 2 of the pairs of units 1 adjacent to each other is the same in both cases.
- the supporting frame 2 may be prearranged to contain two adjacent piles instead of one pile of drawer-type cages 3 and also in this case the dimensions of the double unit 1 according to the invention shall be such to entirely occupy the deck P of the truck A width-wise.
- the double unit 1 conveniently has a larger horizontal dimension measuring about 2500 and a smaller horizontal dimension measuring about 1285 mm.
- the double units 1 By arranging the double units 1 with the larger dimension oriented transversely with respect to the deck P, and with the front loading side 2 a of the frame 2 facing the rear (or front) end of the deck P itself, this may also in this case be entirely occupied width-wise.
- the drawer-type cages 3 are arranged in the frame 2 with the closed lateral walls 6 facing inwards, while in the winter environmental condition the closed lateral walls 6 are arranged facing outwards.
- the position of the front loading side 2 a of the frame 2 of the double unit 1 in this case orthogonal to the closed side 6 of the drawer-type cages 3 , remains the same.
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- This application is a national stage of PCT International Application No. PCT/IT2009/000321 filed on Jul. 20, 2009, and published in English on Jan. 27, 2011 as WO 2011/010329, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
- The present invention generally refers to transporting live poultry from rearing to slaughter sites.
- Known from European patent EP-1330952B1 owned by the same Applicants is a system for transporting live poultry comprising a supporting frame and a plurality of drawer-type cages open at the upper part and arranged in mutually stacked condition in the framework in such a manner that the bottom of a drawer-type cage serves as the cover for the underlying drawer-type cage. The drawer-type cages have lateral walls with aeration openings for ventilating the poultry contained therein and they are extractable only towards the back side of the frame opposite to its front side at which, in use, the poultry to be transported is introduced into the drawer-type cages.
- This solution allows loading the poultry in a particularly simple and practical manner, without negative influence on the subsequent unloading operations at the end of the transport operation.
- The present invention represents an improvement of the invention according to document EP-1330952B1, and it has the object of efficiently adapting the transport system according to such document to the variation of climatic and environmental conditions in such a manner to reduce the stress to which the poultry is subjected during transport to the maximum.
- According to the invention this object is attained by means of a transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck of the type defined above, whose distinctive characteristic lies in the fact that each of the abovementioned drawer-type cages has a lateral wall substantially without aeration openings and intended to be selectively positioned at one side (for example the front side) or the opposite side (for example the back side) of the supporting frame.
- During transport, the front side of the frame is typically arranged facing a side of the truck deck, whose width is usually suitable to accommodate adjacent pairs of transporting units. The front side of the frame is thus directly exposed to the external environment, usually not sheltered or protected so as not to jeopardise the ventilation of the poultry. According to the invention, the possibility of positioning the lateral wall without aeration openings of the drawer-type cages selectively at the front side of the supporting frame or at the opposite side, allows adapting the unit to the climatic and atmospheric transport conditions in an easy and simple manner: thus, with mild or summer temperatures and good weather conditions poultry transport may occur arranging the drawers with their lateral walls without openings facing inwards the truck, so as to allow ventilation of the poultry through the openings of the opposite lateral wall facing outwards. Under low temperatures and harsh climatic conditions the arrangement shall be inverted, so as to protect the poultry against cold and bad weather. In the second case, the ventilation of the poultry shall still be guaranteed by the aeration openings of the other walls, as well as due to the vertical separation between the drawer-type cages fitted into the supporting frame.
- The supporting frame may be shaped in such a manner to receive just one pile or two adjacent piles of the stacked drawer-type cages. As observable hereinafter, the arrangement and size of the cages and of the frame are such that the width of the loading deck of a transport truck, usually comprised between 2.40 and 2.55 metres, may be entirely occupied with a series of pairs of piles of adjacent drawer-type cages arranged in respective pairs of single supporting frames, or in double supporting frames.
- The invention shall now be described in detail with reference to the attached drawings, strictly provided for exemplifying and non-limiting purposes, wherein:
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FIG. 1 is a schematic front perspective view of a transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck according to an embodiment of the invention, -
FIG. 2 is a dorsal perspective view of the unit, -
FIG. 3 is a front elevational view ofFIG. 1 , -
FIG. 4 is a view analogous toFIG. 3 showing a different configuration of the unit, -
FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of one of the drawer-type cages of the transporting unit represented inFIGS. 1-4 , and -
FIG. 6 is a diagram exemplifying, in top plan view, possible arrangements of units for transporting poultry according to the invention on board a truck. - Initially referring to
FIGS. 1-3 ,reference number 1 in its entirety represents a unit or module according to the invention transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck. - In a manner generally corresponding to the illustration and description in the aforementioned document EP-1330952B1, the
unit 1 comprises a robustmetal supporting frame 2 generally parallelepiped-shaped and prearranged to support a pile of stacked drawer-type cages 3 (five of them in the illustrated example), one of which is represented in detail inFIG. 5 . - The supporting
frame 2 may be dimensioned to receive a single pile of drawer-type cages 3, as in the case of the embodiment represented in the drawings, or two piles of adjacent drawer-type cages 3. - Each of the drawer-
type cages 3 is conveniently formed by a generally parallelepiped body made of moulded plastic material with abottom wall 4, largerlateral walls 5, 6 (about 1271 mm long) and smaller lateral walls 7 (about 1211 mm long), open at the upper part. These drawer-type cages may be conveniently analogous to those manufactured and sold by Giordano Poultry Plast S.p.A. according to patent EP-0867113B1, with a substantial difference: while the largerlateral walls 5 and the smallerlateral walls 7 are obtained with respective plurality of aeration openings, typically grid-configured, the largerlateral wall 6 is closed, in that without aeration openings. Suchlateral wall 6 has a pair of spacedslits 8 useable as handles for holding the drawer-type cage 3. - Furthermore, the
bottom 4 of each drawer-type cage 3 is preferably, though not necessarily, also substantially without openings. - The supporting
frame 2 comprises apallet base 9, for manipulating theunit 1 by means of fork lifts or the like, extending from which arecorner uprights 10 joined at the upper part by an extractabletop frame 12. Horizontally fixed to theuprights 10 arelateral guides 13 for supporting the sliding of the drawer-type cages 3, positioned in such a manner that such drawer-type cages 3 stacked in theframe 1 are separated from each other vertically, with thebottom wall 4 of each drawer-type cage 3 serving as a cover—though spaced at the upper part—of the underlying drawer-type cage 3. The upper drawer-type cage 3 is closed by thetop cover 12. - According to the teaching of the aforementioned document EP-1330952 the
frame 2 is also configured in such a manner to allow partial or total sliding extraction of the drawer-type cages 3 along theguide 13 only on the part of the dorsal side of theframe 2, indicated with 2 b inFIG. 2 and which—to obtain such effect—is not closed. Extraction is instead hindered on the opposite side or front side, indicated with 2 a inFIGS. 1 and 3 , 4. For such purpose, applied along thefront side 2 a are additionalvertical uprights 14 against which the largerlateral walls 5 or respectively 6 of the drawer-type cages 3 abut. - The sides of the supporting
frame 1 may also be made rigid by means of furtherdiagonal elements 15. - With this arrangement, loading poultry into the drawer-
type cages 3 at the rearing site is obtained through the same methods described in the aforementioned EP-1330952, first partially extracting—from thedorsal side 2 b of the supportingframe 2—the drawer-type cages 3 located above the lower drawer-type cage 3, for approximately half their longitudinal section. Then—from thefront side 2 a of the supportingframe 2, after introducing the poultry into thelowermost cage 3 until it is filled—followed by the repositioning of the immediately upper drawer-type cage 3 into the supportingframe 2, in such a manner to close the lower drawer-type cage 3. Such process is repeated until the uppermost drawer-type cage 3 is filled, then such drawer-type cage is closed by means of thetop cover 12. - The
unit 1 thus loaded is transferred onto the deck of a truck. The dimensions of theunit 1 are such that a normal truck deck for example allows adjacent positioning thereof two by two, with thefront sides 2 a of the respective supportingframes 2 facing outwards. As observable in detail hereinafter, the arrangement is such to advantageously occupy the entire width of the deck. - When unloading the poultry in the slaughter site, the drawer-
type cages 3 may be entirely slidingly extracted from thedorsal side 2 b of theframe 2. - Due to the previously described configuration of the drawer-
type cages 3, thetransporting unit 1 may be easily adapted to the climatic and environmental transport conditions, to obtain uttermost reduction of the stress the poultry is subjected to during transfer from the rearing to the slaughter site. This is obtained according to the invention by arranging the drawer-type cages 3 into the supportingframe 2 with therespective walls 6 without openings selectively at thefront side 2 a or at thedorsal side 2 b of theframe 2. In the first case, represented inFIGS. 1 and 3 (and contrary inFIG. 2 ) the poultry contained in the drawer-type cages 3, with the supportingframe 2 arranged on the truck deck with itsfront side 2 a facing outwards, is better protected in case of low temperature and/or bad weather. With such arrangement, the aeration of the poultry inside the drawer-type cages 3 is still guaranteed by the openings of thewalls type cages 3. - In the second case, represented in
FIG. 4 and wherein the drawer-type cages 3 are positioned in the supportingframe 2 with therespective walls 6 without openings facing thedorsal side 2 b and thus inwards the truck (i.e. with thewall 5 provided with openings facing outwards), free ventilation of the poultry contained in the drawer-type cages 3 under high temperature climatic conditions is maintained. In such case, thewalls 6 without openings do not serve any purpose. - Such selective arrangement neither alters the method for loading poultry into the drawer-
type cages 3 neither the method for unloading the same in any way whatsoever at the end of the transport step. -
FIG. 6 exemplifies the methods for positioning thetransporting unit 1 according to the invention on the loading deck P of a transport truck A. - Typically the dimensions of the width of the loading deck P of the transport trucks A is comprised between 2.40 and 2.55 metres. According to the invention the
unit 1 represented in the drawings has a larger horizontal dimension (corresponding to the side for loading the poultry into the drawer-type cages 3) measuring about 1350 mm and a smaller horizontal dimension measuring about 1211 mm: by arranging theunits 1 two by two adjacent to each other in the direction of the smaller dimension, and with thefront loading sides 2 a of therespective frames 2 facing the opposite sides of the deck P of the truck A, such deck P may be entirely occupied covering its entire width. This is represented in the two bottom diagrams ofFIG. 6 , the left one corresponding to a summer environmental condition and the right one to a winter environmental condition. In the first case the drawer-type cages 3 are arranged inrespective frames 2 with the closedlateral walls 6 facing inwards, while in the second case the closedlateral walls 6 face outwards. The position of thefront loading sides 2 a of theframe 2 of the pairs ofunits 1 adjacent to each other is the same in both cases. - As already observed previously, the supporting
frame 2 may be prearranged to contain two adjacent piles instead of one pile of drawer-type cages 3 and also in this case the dimensions of thedouble unit 1 according to the invention shall be such to entirely occupy the deck P of the truck A width-wise. - Such configuration is shown in the two upper top diagrams of
FIG. 6 and the left one corresponding to a summer environmental condition and the right one to a winter environmental condition. Thedouble unit 1 conveniently has a larger horizontal dimension measuring about 2500 and a smaller horizontal dimension measuring about 1285 mm. By arranging thedouble units 1 with the larger dimension oriented transversely with respect to the deck P, and with thefront loading side 2 a of theframe 2 facing the rear (or front) end of the deck P itself, this may also in this case be entirely occupied width-wise. Also in this case, in the summer environmental condition the drawer-type cages 3 are arranged in theframe 2 with the closedlateral walls 6 facing inwards, while in the winter environmental condition the closedlateral walls 6 are arranged facing outwards. The position of thefront loading side 2 a of theframe 2 of thedouble unit 1, in this case orthogonal to theclosed side 6 of the drawer-type cages 3, remains the same. - Obviously, the construction details and the embodiments of the transporting unit may be widely varied with respect to that described and illustrated, without departing from the scope of protection of the present invention as defined in the claims that follow.
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