JPH09205921A - Excrement removing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an excrement removing device which can prevent the disease or dirty egg of hen from being generated by residual object stuck on the return side of excrement receiver belt. SOLUTION: A shutter plate 25 is fixed at the upper part of a lower cage stage 16 so as to face a return side 19B of an excrement receiver belt 19. This shutter plate 25 is provided with a shutter part 25α and a scraper part 25β. This shutter part 25α shuts a gap between the return side 19B and the lower cage stage 16 facing this side and prevents the residual object stuck on this return side 19B from falling into this cage stage 16. Besides, the scraper part 25β scrapes down the residual object stuck on the return side 19B to the side of this shutter part 25α.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to, for example, a cage row in a poultry house, and relates to a defecation apparatus for receiving chicken droppings dropped from a cage and discharging them to the outside of the cage row.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of defecation apparatus, a pair of guide rollers are arranged at both ends of a cage row. An endless feces receiving belt is wound around the guide rollers and arranged between the upper and lower cages. The dung receiving belt is rotated in one direction by rotating the guide roller. The surface of the feces receiving belt facing the upper cage is a receiving surface, and chicken droppings and the like dropped from the upper cage can be received by the receiving surface.
The chicken manure received by the receiving surface is carried out of the cage row by the circulation operation of the manure receiving belt, and is scraped off by the blade arranged near the guide roller on the carrying-out side.
The receiving surface on which the chicken droppings have been scraped off is folded back by the guide roller to form a return surface, and the return surface is moved toward the other guide roller while facing the lower cage.

[0003]

However, in the defecation apparatus having the above-described structure, the thin feathers of the chicken received on the receiving surface may be caught between the blade and the dung receiving belt. Therefore, a slight gap is formed between the blade and the feces receiving belt. Moreover, this gap allows entry of, for example, chicken manure and the like, which is larger than the blade, and this vicious circle reduces the blade scraping ability. Therefore, chicken manure and the like left by the blade was attached to the return surface. This can be prevented by regularly performing maintenance of the blade, but it is a laborious work and is not performed so often.

Further, when the total length of the cage row becomes long, it is necessary to arrange the feces receiving belt having a long total length accordingly. Therefore, even if the feces receiving belt is stretched between the guide rollers by applying an appropriate tension, it is not possible to prevent the dropping belt from bending downward due to its own weight.

Therefore, due to the circulating movement of the feces receiving belt, the return surface thereof is brought into sliding contact with the lower cage, and the residue left behind on the blade is scraped off by the edge of the cage or the like. As a result, the scraped residue (some of which is naturally dropped) is dropped into the cage at the bottom, causing the disease to occur due to the residue sticking to the chicken,
There were problems such as dirty eggs.

The present invention has been made by paying attention to the problems existing in the above-mentioned prior art, and the purpose thereof is, for example, of a chicken caused by a residue attached to the return surface of the fecal belt. An object of the present invention is to provide a defecation apparatus capable of preventing the occurrence of diseases and dirty eggs.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 is arranged between the upper and lower cages of the cage row, and receives the feces dropped from the upper cage with the receiving surface. On the receiving surface and the belt driving means for moving the droppings received on the receiving surface to a predetermined position by rotating the dropping receiving belt in the form of a circle. The defecation apparatus is provided with a removing means for removing the defecation, a lower cage, and a blocking body that is disposed between the return surface of the feces receiving belt facing the cage and that blocks the two.

According to the second aspect of the invention, between the return surface of the feces receiving belt and the lower cage, the return surface is in contact with the return surface.
A scraping member is arranged to scrape off the residue left by the removing means.

In the invention of claim 3, the shield is arranged only on the upstream side in the traveling direction of the return surface with respect to the scraping member. In the invention of claim 4, the scraping member and the blocking body are integrated by bending one plate material.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided an endless feces belt which is disposed between the upper and lower cages of the cage row and which receives the feces dropped from the upper cage with a receiving surface, and the feces belt. A belt driving means for moving the feces received on the receiving surface to a predetermined place by operating the orbit,
A removing means for removing feces moved to a predetermined place from the receiving surface and a disinfectant applying means for applying a disinfectant to the return surface of the feces receiving belt facing the lower cage. It is a equipped defecation device.

(Operation) In the invention of claim 1 having the above-mentioned structure, the droppings dropped from the upper cage are received by the receiving surface of the dropping belt. The feces receiving belt is rotated around by the belt driving means to move the feces to a predetermined location. The excrement moved to a predetermined place is removed from the receiving surface by the removing means.

[0012] Here, for example, when the removal capacity of the removal means is lowered for some reason, on the return surface of the feces receiving belt, feces and the like (hereinafter, referred to as residues) that cannot be removed by the removal means are formed. It remains attached. However, the blocking body is arranged between the lower cage and the return surface, and the two are blocked. For this reason, the residue dropped from the return surface does not drop into the lower cage.

In the second aspect of the invention, the scraping member positively scrapes off the residue attached to the return surface. Therefore, the return surface passing through the scraping member becomes sanitary.

At this time, the scraped residue is dropped upstream of the scraping member in the traveling direction of the return surface. In other words, by disposing the scraping member, it is not necessary to dispose the blocking body downstream of the scraping member in the traveling direction of the return surface.

Therefore, in the third aspect of the invention, the barrier is arranged only on the upstream side in the traveling direction of the return surface with respect to the scraping member. As a result, the device can be constructed at a low cost as compared with the case where the blocking member is arranged downstream of the scraping member in the traveling direction of the return surface.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the scraping member and the blocking body are integrated by bending one plate member. Therefore, the number of parts can be reduced as compared with the case where both are provided separately.

In the invention of claim 5, the droppings dropped from the upper cage are received by the receiving surface of the dropping belt. The feces receiving belt is rotated around by the belt driving means to move the feces to a predetermined location. The excrement moved to a predetermined place is removed from the receiving surface by the removing means.

Here, for example, when the removing capability of the removing means is lowered for some reason, the return surface of the feces receiving belt remains attached with the feces which the removing means cannot remove. However, a disinfectant is applied to the return surface by the disinfectant application means, so that the residue on the return surface is rendered harmless.
Therefore, even if the same residue is dropped into the lower cage, it is possible to suppress the adverse effect on the chicken and its eggs as much as possible.

[0019]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION First to third embodiments in which the fecal removal apparatus of the present invention is applied to a cage row arranged in a poultry house will be described below. The same members as those in the first embodiment are designated by the same reference numerals in the second and third embodiments.

(First Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a side view of a cage row, and FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the cage row. As shown in both figures, the columns 11 are a pair of cage rows with a width interval between the cage rows. A plurality of pairs of the columns 11 are provided in the entire length direction of the cage row. The support frames 12 and 13 are erected on the front and rear ends of the cage row.
The pillar 11 is supported by a beam member 14 which is laterally stretched between them. The cage 15 that accommodates a large number of chickens (not shown) is supported by the pillar 11 and the beam member 13. In the cage 15, a pair of left and right arranged at a predetermined interval constitutes one cage step 16, and in the present embodiment, upper and lower four steps are arranged. As shown in FIG. 5, each cage 15 has a net cage 17 whose upper surface is open.
Are arranged in the cage row direction. The bait girder 18 is laid horizontally between the support frames 12 and 13 and is arranged at the lower part of the outer surface of each cage 15.

Next, the feces removal device applied to the cage row will be described. As shown in FIGS. 1 to 4, a plurality of (four) endless belts made of synthetic resin 19 are disposed below each cage step 16. The surface of the dung receiving belt 19 facing the upper cage step 16 forms a receiving surface 19A. Therefore, each cage stage 16
The chicken droppings and the like dropped from are received on the receiving surface 19A.

The same number of driving rollers 2 as the feces receiving belt 19
0 is arranged in the support frame 12 on the right side of the drawing, and is rotationally driven all at once by a drive motor 21 including an electric motor or the like. Similarly, the same number of driven rollers 22 are arranged in the left support frame 13. The drive roller 20, the drive motor 21, and the driven roller 22 constitute a belt drive means. Each feces receiving belt 19 is wound around the corresponding driving roller 20 and driven roller 22, and is rotated in the clockwise direction in FIG. Therefore, the receiving surface 19A
The chicken droppings received above are carried out into the support frame 12.

The blade 23 as a removing means is arranged in the vicinity of each drive roller 20 in the support frame 12 and is linearly pressed against the feces receiving belt 19 on the drive roller 20 in the width direction. Therefore, the support frame 12
The chicken manure or the like carried in is scraped off by the blade 23 and removed from the receiving surface 19A.

The feces receiving belt 19 from which chicken feces and the like have been removed by the blade 23 has its traveling direction reversed by the driving roller 20 and travels toward the driven roller 22. In the present specification, the outer surface of the feces receiving belt 19 running in the direction of the driven roller 22 is referred to as a return surface 19B.
And

As shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, in the present embodiment, the blocking plate 25 is the return surface 1 of the feces receiving belt 19.
It is interposed between 9B and the lower cage stage 16 facing it. The blocking plate 25 is configured by bending a plate material such as a stainless plate. The blocking plate 25 has a rectangular plate-shaped blocking portion 25 as a blocking body.
and a scraping portion 25β as a scraping member, which is formed by raising one side edge of the blocking portion 25α. As shown in FIG. 5, the blocking portion 25α is fixed to the upper portions of two net cages 17 which are adjacent to each other and which constitute each cage step 16 with a predetermined gap, and the upper opening of each net cage 17 is fixed. It is blocking. The blocking plate 25 is used for the scraping unit 2
5β is fixed to the net cage 17 such that 5β is arranged on the downstream side in the traveling direction of the return surface 19B with respect to the blocking portion 25α.

As shown in FIG. 4, three blocking plates 25 having the above construction are provided in each cage step 16 (excluding the uppermost cage step 16) in order from the most upstream side of the return surface 19B in the traveling direction. They are fixed on the three pairs of net cages 17, respectively. In this arrangement, the tip of the scraping portion 25β is in linear contact with the return surface 19B of the feces receiving belt 19 in the width direction.

Next, the operation of the fecal removal device will be described. The chicken droppings dropped from each cage step 16 receive the receiving surface 19A of the feces receiving belt 19 arranged below the cage step 16.
Received by The chicken droppings received on the receiving surface 19A are sent into the support frame 12 by the orbiting movement of the dropping belt 19. Then, the chicken manure on the receiving surface 19A is scraped off by the blade 23 in the support frame 12 and discharged to the outside of the cage row by a discharging device (not shown).

Here, the thin feathers of the chicken received on the receiving surface 19A may be caught between the blade 23 and the feces receiving belt 19. Therefore, the blade 23
A slight gap is formed between and the feces receiving belt 19.
In addition, this gap allows entry of, for example, chicken manure, which is larger than the blade, and the vicious circle reduces the scraping ability of the blade 23. Therefore, chicken feces and the like (hereinafter referred to as a residue) scraped by the blade 23 are attached to the return surface 19B of the feces receiving belt 19.

Then, when the return surface 19B is moved in the upstream section (with respect to the traveling direction of the return surface 19B) of the cage step 16 where the blocking plate 25 is disposed, for example, the return surface 19B naturally moves from the return surface 19B. Residues dropped onto the shield plate 2
5 blocking unit 25α. Therefore, the residue does not enter the lower cage stage 16.

The residue attached to the return surface 19B is positively scraped by the scraping portion 25β.
The residue scraped off by the scraping unit 25β is dropped to the blocking unit 25α side of the same blocking plate 25 and the blocking unit 2β is cut off.
Received by 5α.

Then, by each scraping member 25β,
The scraping of the residue attached to the return surface 19B is repeated three times, and the return surface 19 that has passed through the final scraping portion 25β is returned.
Almost no residue is attached to B. Therefore, even in the section on the downstream side where the return surface 19B and the lower cage step 16 directly face each other without the blocking plate 25, the problem caused by the residue does not occur.

The present embodiment having the above configuration has the following effects. (1) A blocking portion 25α is interposed between the return surface 19B of the feces receiving belt 19 and the lower cage step 16 that faces the return surface 19B, thereby blocking the two sides 19B and 16 from each other. Therefore, the residue dropped from the return surface 19B can be prevented from entering the lower cage stage 16. Therefore, it is possible to prevent illness caused by chicken droppings being caught on the chicken, and generation of dirty eggs and the like.

(2) The scraping portion 25β is brought into contact with the return surface 19B, and the residue attached to the return surface 19B is positively scraped off to the blocking portion 25α. Therefore, almost no residue is attached to the return surface 19B that has passed through the scraping portion 25β, which is sanitary. Therefore, the blocking plate 25
The problem caused by the residue does not occur even in the section where there is no intervening. In other words, it suffices to dispose the blocking section 25α only on the upstream side of the scraping section 25β in the traveling direction of the return surface 19B, and the blocking section 25α can be miniaturized to inexpensively configure the present apparatus.

(3) A plurality of (three) blocking plates 25 are arranged along the extending direction of the cage step 16. Therefore, the scraping unit 25β can scrape multiple residues (three times).
Repeatedly, the residue attached to the return surface 19B is surely scraped off. As a result, the hygienic condition of the chicken or the like on the return surface 19B that travels in the section where the blocking plate 25 is not interposed, and further on the cage step 16 that faces the return surface 19B, is improved.

(4) The blocking section 25α and the scraping section 2
5β is integrated by bending one plate material. Therefore, the number of parts can be reduced as compared with the case where both 25α and 25β are separately configured, and the processing cost can be reduced. Further, both 25α and 25β can be easily fixed to the cage stage 16.

(Second Embodiment) FIG. 6 shows a second embodiment. In this embodiment, the disinfectant is applied to the return surface 19B of the feces receiving belt 19 that has passed through the three blocking plates 25. That is, the holder 3
1 is fixed to the back surface of the scraping portion 25β in each of the most downstream blocking plates 25 with respect to the traveling direction of the return surface 19B. The absorbent holding member 32 is made of sponge or the like and absorbs and holds the disinfectant. The absorbent holding member 32 is held and fixed to the holder 31 and is in contact with the return surface 19B of the feces receiving belt 19 in the width direction thereof. Therefore, when the feces receiving belt 19 travels, a disinfectant is applied to the return surface 19B by the absorption holding member 32, and, for example, dust of chicken manure that could not be scraped by the scraping member 25β is harmless. Be converted.

Examples of the disinfectant include alcohol disinfectants such as ethyl alcohol, aromatic disinfectants such as cresol, and hydrogen peroxide solution. In this embodiment, in addition to the same effect as the first embodiment, the hygienic condition of the return surface 19B in the section where the blocking plate 25 is not arranged is further improved. Therefore, in the same section, the chickens in the lower cage 16 are returned to the return surface 19B.
Even if you peck, you do not have to worry about the occurrence of illness.

(Third Embodiment) FIG. 7 shows a third embodiment. In the present embodiment, a dust box 35 is fixed to one side edge of each blocking plate 25, and an operator can collect chicken manure or the like deposited on the blocking unit 25 from the dust box 3.
It is designed to be scraped into 5. When a certain amount of chicken manure is accumulated in the dust box 35, it can be easily taken out by pulling out the drawer 35α. Therefore, it is easy to remove chicken droppings or the like on the blocking unit 25 from the outside of the cage row, and it is possible to prevent chicken droppings from being scattered around the cage row by the same operation.

The following embodiments can be carried out without departing from the spirit of the present invention. (1) As shown by the chain double-dashed line A in FIG.
Raise both side edges of the blocking section 25α of No.5. By doing so, it is possible to prevent the chicken droppings that have fallen on the blocking section 25α and are accumulated from being scattered outside the row of cages without waiting for the discharge work by the worker due to changes in the air flow inside the poultry house. .

(2) The blocking portion 25α of the blocking plate 25 is formed into a shape that is valley-folded at its center line (shown by the chain double-dashed line B in FIG. 5), and the received residue is the blocking portion 25α.
It should be configured so that it can be easily accumulated on the center side of the. By doing so, the same effect as that of the other example (1) can be obtained.

(3) As shown in FIG. 8, the blocking portion 25α is inclined downward toward the dust box 35 side. This makes it easier for the operator to scrape and collect the residue on the blocking portion 25α on the dust box 35 side.

(4) As shown in FIG. 9, the dust boxes 35 are arranged on both sides of the blocking portion 25α, and the blocking portion 25α has a mountain-folded shape at its center line. By doing so, it becomes easier for the operator to scrape the residue on the blocking section 25α to both the dust boxes 35.

(5) Arrange the blocking plates 25 in all the facing sections of each cage step 16 and the return surface 19B without any gap. (6) The scraping portion 25β is deleted from the blocking plate 25, and the blocking portion 25α is arranged in a section where the cage steps 16 and the return surface 19B face each other without a gap.

(7) The configuration of the blocking plate 25 is deleted from the second embodiment, and the return surface 19 is provided in the lower cage step 16.
The absorption holding member 3 is provided at a position on the most upstream side with respect to the traveling direction of B.
Place two. By doing so, the residue attached to the return surface 19B is rendered harmless by the disinfectant, and even if the residue is dropped into the lower cage stage 16, it does not adversely affect chickens and eggs. You can suppress giving.

(8) Applying the defecation apparatus to a cage row for accommodating birds other than chickens, animals other than birds, and the like. The technical idea that can be grasped from the above embodiment will be described.

(1) The fecal removal device according to claim 2, wherein a plurality of the scraping members 25β are arranged along the traveling direction of the return surface 19B. By doing this, the return surface 19B
Scraping of the residue adhered to is assured.

(2) The defecation apparatus according to any one of 1 to 4, wherein the barrier has an inclined surface. By doing so, the scraping operation of the residue becomes easy.

[0048]

According to the invention of claim 1 having the above-mentioned structure, it is possible to prevent the residue from dropping from the return surface of the dung receiving belt into the cage at the lower stage, resulting in, for example, chicken diseases or It is possible to suppress the generation of dirty eggs and the like.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the scraping member positively scrapes off the residue attached to the returning surface, so that the returning surface after the scraping member becomes hygienic. According to the third aspect of the present invention, it is not necessary to dispose the blocking body between the return surface and the lower cage, and the present apparatus can be constructed at low cost.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the present apparatus can be constructed at a low cost by reducing the number of parts constituting the blocking body and the scraping member, and the blocking body and the scraping member can be easily attached to the cage row. Becomes

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the residue is dropped from the return surface into the cage, and it is possible to prevent the residue from adversely affecting the chicken or its egg, for example.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a side view of a row of cages.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a row of cages.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of a main part of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a partial vertical cross-sectional view of a cage row.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view showing the vicinity of a blocking plate.

FIG. 6 is a view showing a second embodiment, and is a perspective view near the blocking plate.

FIG. 7 is a view showing a third embodiment, and is a perspective view near a blocking plate.

FIG. 8 is a view showing another example, and is a perspective view near the blocking plate.

FIG. 9 is a view showing another example, and is a perspective view near the blocking plate.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference numeral 15 ... Cage, 19 ... Feces receiving belt, 20 ... Driving roller constituting belt driving means, 21 ... Driving motor, 2
2 ... Similarly driven roller, 23 ... blade as removing means, 25α ... blocking section as blocking body.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An endless feces belt which is disposed between upper and lower cages of a row of cages and which receives feces dropped from the upper cage with a receiving surface, and by rotating the same feces belt. , A belt driving means for moving the feces received on the receiving surface to a predetermined place, a removing means for removing the feces moved to a predetermined place from the receiving surface, a lower cage, and facing the same cage A defecation apparatus, which is provided between the return surface of a feces receiving belt and a blocking body that blocks the two. 2. A scraping member is disposed between the return surface of the feces receiving belt and the lower cage so as to abut the return surface and scrape the residue left by the removing means. The defecation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein 3. The shield is arranged only on the upstream side in the traveling direction of the return surface with respect to the scraping member.
The defecation apparatus according to item 1. 4. The fecal removal device according to claim 2, wherein the scraping member and the blocking member are integrated by bending a single plate material. 5. An endless feces belt disposed between upper and lower cages of a cage row and receiving feces dropped from the upper cage with a receiving surface, and by rotating the feces belt around the same. , A belt driving means for moving the feces received on the receiving surface to a predetermined place, a removing means for removing the feces moved to the predetermined place from the receiving surface, and a feces receiving surface facing the lower cage A defecation apparatus provided with a disinfectant applying means for applying a disinfectant to a return surface of a belt.