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
  • A01K31/00—Housing birds
  • A01K31/22—Poultry runs ; Poultry houses, including auxiliary features, e.g. feeding, watering, demanuring
• • 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
  • A01K31/00—Housing birds
  • A01K31/14—Nest-boxes, e.g. for singing birds or the like
  • A01K31/16—Laying nests for poultry; Egg collecting
  • A01K31/165—Egg collecting or counting

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a production or breeding hen house featuring a rainimura of one separate space reserved for hens, here called a hen room, of which at least part of the floor is an inclined net floor along which the eggs are intended to roll, continuing through a narrow gap from the hen room onto the collection space's conveyor belt.
• hen house The most common types of hen house are the litter floor hen house and the Pennsylvania hen house.
• the litter floor hen house one part of the floor consists of litter floor proper and another part, of a wooden slat flooring.
• This type of hen house requires constant attention and necessitates a high amount of labor. It is necessary to collect the eggs several times a day and dung must be removed frequently. It has been possible to reduce the amount of labor required by employing a net floor structure.
• hen house known as the Pennsylvania, hen house, there is an inclined net floor, along which the eggs roll.
• the bottom part of the wall there is a narrow gap through which the eggs reach the collection space, usually a trough, from which they are collected individually. Thanks to the net floor, hen dung drops under the hen house, thus not bothering the hens.
• the Pennsylvania hen. house also requires daily attendance and the he house cannot be left unattended for the duration of the weekend, say.
• the floor section situated where the conveyor is located is part of usable floor area from which dung removal can advantageously be effected with the conveyor belt.
• the floor section constitutes a flooring of a type different from the inclined net floor, a fact that as such is of benefit for the satisfaction of hens and, in breeding hen houses, for roosters.
• the section constitutes a much better mating surface than an inclined net floor.
• the conveyor belt can be made wide; thus, the collection space also serves as a storage space for eggs during the weekend, for instance.
• the floor section of course, also serves as a walkway.
• An embodiment in accordance with Claim 2 further reduces the amount of labor caused by egg production.
• dung In addition to eggs, dung too drops off the curved floor section onto the net, said dung then falling through the net while the eggs roll into the collection area.
• An embodiment in accordance with Claim 3 is advantageous from the viewpoint of manufacture.
• the conveyor belt glides smoothly on top of the steel plate.
• the gap is typically appr. 5.5 cm in height, meaning that there is sufficient space for the eggs to roll through the gap into the collection area and that, nevertheless, there is no breakage of eggs rolling off the edges of the floor section above.
• An embodiment in accordance with Claim 4 makes the structure more light-weight as the span of the floor support structure is halved. If, for instance, the support of the sheet metal profile is done with the help of rolls, these can be in constant contact with the lower section of the belt. A second
• An embodiment in accordance with Claim 5 further improves the air ventilation of the collection space and, in particular, of the storage space. It is important that the air blow not be aimed directly at the eggs in storage so as to prevent them form drying.
• Figure 1 is a cross-section of the space reserved for hens, ie. of the hen room.
• Figure 2 is a cross-section of the floor section.
• the hen house may feature, say, four hen rooms
• additional surface areas can be constructed on top of the roost structure 10. It is one of the purposes of the wooden slat flooring 11 to provide the hens with additional living space of a different kind. Dung removal from here is effected with the conveyor belt 12 situated under the wooden slat flooring.
• the hen room wall features a drinking fixture 14 of priorly known type.
• the net floors 3 are fitted so as to be supported by inclined support beams 1.
• the floor section 4 in the center is constructed on top of the horizontal support beam 2, although it is partly supported by the supports 5 on the inclined support beams 1.
• the net floors 3 extend at their lower extremities slightly over the conveyor belt 6, which passes on top of the horizontal support beams 2 as shown in Figure 2.
• the collection space 16 consists of the space defined by the steel plate 4, which forms the floor section, and the conveyor belt 6 (lower section of the conveyor belt), said space doing double duty, when needed, as a storage space for eggs.
• the curved steel plate is supported at the edges by the supports 5 at each support beam 1.
• the U-shaped sheet metal profile 8 is welded by its legs to the steel plate 4.
• the sheet metal profile 8, together with the steel plate 4, forms an air duct into which fresh air is funneled for the purpose of replacing the ambient air of the hen house in the collection area.
• the legs are provided with cuts which constitute the air exhaust slits 9.
• the sheet metal profile 8 When walked upon, the sheet metal profile 8 is pushed into contact with the conveyor belt 6. At such a time, the conveyor belt 6,7 is, of course, not used.

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• 1985
  • 1985-02-22 FI FI850722A patent/FI70361C/fi not_active IP Right Cessation
• 1986
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  • 1986-02-18 EP EP19860901406 patent/EP0252081A1/en active Pending
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