TH16958A - Practice for young animals - Google Patents

Abstract

Poultry are anesthetized by administering a working gas that has an anaphylactic and/or oxygen deprivation effect. Machine rooms (40, 106, 140, 170, 200, 218) are utilized where the working gas is discharged and the working environment is maintained. Containers (18, 48, 72, 114) are discharged by mechanical conveyors (22, 50, 78, 108) to the area adjacent to the inlet (8, 42, 80, 102a, 102b, 102c), and mechanical conveyors are used to transport the containers throughout the inlet and into the machine room, and preferably throughout the machine room to the outlet (10, 144, 184, 102a, 102b, 102c), from where the containers are further transported by mechanical conveyors. The speed at which the containers are transported through the working gas chambers is determined. The engine room is so large that human intervention can cause ducks and chickens to become unconscious or die during the passage of containers from the entrance to the exit.

Claims (49)

1. The operating machinery consists of: the machine room; pathways for maintaining a controlled environment within the machine room; entry points through which containers may be moved; pathways for moving containers through the entry points into the machine room; pathways for moving containers in and out of the machine room; and pathways for moving containers out of the machine room. 2. The machinery used to comply with claim 1 is the same mechanical device used both to move the containers through the entrance to the machine room and to move the containers throughout the machine room. 3. Machinery that complies with one of the provisions of Reservations 1 and 2, in which the same machinery is used to facilitate both the movement of containers within the machine room and the movement of containers out of the machine room. 4. The machinery used to perform any of the preceding claims consists of a rotating, suspended mechanism on which the container is placed and which the container is moved through the entrance to the machine room, through the machine room, and through the exit from the machine room. 5. The machinery used to comply with claim 1, in which separate mechanical devices are used to move boxes and containers through the entrance passage into the machine room and to move boxes and containers throughout the machine room. 6. The machine is used to fulfill one of the provisions of Reservations 1 and 5, in which a separate mechanical device is used to move the container box through the exit channel from the machine room. 7. Machinery used in compliance with one of the provisions of Reservations 4 and 6, in which the entry and exit points are designated to be located in the same area of the machine room. 8. The machinery used to perform any of the preceding claims includes export mechanisms for sending boxes/containers out to the area adjacent to the entrance channel and for transporting boxes/containers out of the area adjacent to the exit channel. 9. The machinery used to comply with claim 8 consists of conveyor tracks for transporting containers from the inlet into the operating room in an upward direction and from the operating room to the outlet in an upward direction. 10. The machinery used to comply with claim 8 consists of a means for maintaining a controlled atmosphere in the machine room consisting of a gas or a mixture of gases with a density less than the density of air. Such conveying means operate to transport containers from the entrance upwards into the controlled environment. 11. The machinery used to comply with claim 8 consists of a means for maintaining a controlled atmosphere in the machine room containing a gas or a mixture of gases with a density greater than the density of air. Such conveying means are used to transport containers from the inlet downwards into the controlled environment. 12. The machinery used to comply with claim 10 consists of an inlet shaft extending downward from the inlet into the engine room and an outlet shaft extending upward from above the engine room to the engine room outlet, and such shafts shall be sealed against the escape of operating gases located below the inlet and outlet ports. 13. The machinery used to comply with Requisition 11 consists of an inlet stack extending upwards from the inlet to the engine room and an outlet stack extending downwards from the engine room to the engine room outlet. The stacks and the engine room are sealed against the escape of operating gases above the inlet and outlet openings. 14. The machinery in any of the preceding claims consists of a loading mechanism for moving containers from the loading station adjacent to the entrance port to a position in which such containers may be secured by the first vertical trajectory, and the machinery consists of an unloading mechanism for moving containers from being secured by the second vertical trajectory to the unloading station adjacent to the exit port. 15. Machines used to comply with claim 14 in which the lifting and lowering mechanisms are combined with the loaded and unloaded mechanisms, each machine is modified to move multiple boxes/containers at a time. 16. The operating machinery consists of: a control room; pathways for maintaining the environment within the control room, which contains a gas or mixture of gases that deprives the ducks of oxygen or causes them to become unconscious (hereinafter referred to as the operating gas); pathways for maintaining the surface area between the operating gas and the air; pathways for transporting the ducks across the surface into the operating gas; and pathways for transporting the ducks from the operating gas after the operating gas has produced the desired effect. 17. The machinery used in accordance with claim 16, in which, after the conveying process of the poultry across each other's surfaces into the gas treatment and before the conveying of the poultry from the gas treatment, an intermediate step is performed to convey the poultry across the gas treatment, where the poultry remain in the gas treatment for the required period of time. 18. The machine is used to perform one of the provisions of Claim 16 and 17 in which the operating gas consists of a mixture of inert gases and carbon dioxide in greater proportion to the other gases. 19. The machinery used to comply with claim 18 consists of an internal pit in which the active gas is retained due to its high density. Poultry are conveyed into the pit to allow the active gas to take the desired effect before the poultry are lifted out of the pit for further processing. 20. The machine used to perform the functions of Clause 16 and 17 in which the operating gas consists of a light but inert gas such as celeum or neon, consists of an upper chamber in which the operating gas is maintained by reason of its lower density. The conveyance path is performed to convey the poultry upwards through each other's surfaces into the operating gas and subsequently downwards from the operating gas through each other's surfaces. 21. Machinery used to perform one of the provisions of Claims 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 in which the operating gas consists of the operating gas or a mixture of gases from which oxygen has been removed. 22. The machinery used to perform one of the preceding claims in which chickens are transported throughout the machine room in containers. The containers are designed to hold many chickens. The containers are transported through the machine room one at a time, in a continuous row or in groups. 23. The machinery used in compliance with Patent 22 consists of mechanisms for the automatic removal of containers from assembly units or frames and for conveying continuous rows or groups of containers to loading stations. 24. The machinery used to comply with claim 23, in which such conveying machinery shall pass through the tunnel. 25. The machine is used to perform one of the claims 23 and 24, in which an additional means are prescribed for providing a cover to the container box entering the machine room where it is used. 26. A machine that performs any of the provisions of Rights 22 through 25 in which the cover is opened at the bottom and may be snapped into place on the container during its journey. 27. The machinery used to comply with any of the claims 22 through 25, where the cover is open at one end, is able to easily set the cover over the container by relative lateral movement between them. 28. The machine used to perform any of the provisions of Rights 25 through 27 consists of a straight path between the cover and the tunnel so that the container box enters the cover on the movement from the tunnel to the machine used to perform the operation. 29. The machinery used to comply with any of the claims 25 through 28 consists of non-seized mechanisms for separating covers and container boxes. 30. The machinery used to comply with any of the claims 25 through 29 includes a transfer pathway to return the separated cover to a location where the cover may be reused to an incoming container. 31. Machinery that complies with any of the provisions of Rights 25 through 30 in which each cover is of a size appropriate for use in the manufacture of individual container boxes. 32. The machinery used to perform any of the provisions of Claims 25 through 31 consists of an observation station prior to the station with a cover to enable the visibility of the poultry in the boxes/containers being processed prior to entering the operating room. 33. The human method of slaughtering poultry involves placing the poultry in a high-carbon dioxide gas chamber. The poultry is transported to a machine in a container, and a temporary lid is placed on the container before it is moved into the machine chamber where the poultry are introduced into the gas chamber. 34. An invention according to one of the preceding claims in which a container is molded from plastic and opens at the top. 35. An invention pursuant to one of claims 33 and 34 in which a mechanism is established to prevent the accidental ejection of the lid from the container box during the passage of the machine used in its operation. 36. The invention pursuant to claim 35 in which the creation of an interlocking mechanism is defined as being able to be held in place by the relative movement between the lid and the container in one direction. 37. The invention pursuant to claim 36, in which a lid is molded from a plastic substance, is used to benefit the container by moving it relative to the upward direction of the container. 38. The invention according to claim 34 in which its construction and arrangement are such that the container box may be entered into the lid by moving along its length relative to it. 39. An invention pursuant to claim 38 in which the cover has at least one open-ended wall and one closed-ended wall. 40. An invention according to any of the claims 33 through 39 in which the cover is provided with a small opening. 41. The operating equipment consists of a control room, a mechanism for maintaining a controlled environment within the control room, including the use of a gas or gas mixture that avoids having an excess of oxygen, and keeping the poultry inside the control room for a sufficient period of time for them to be stunned or killed. 42. An invention pursuant to claim 41 in which, in addition to avoiding the presence of oxygen, the practical gas contains one or more anesthetic gases. 43. An invention pursuant to claim 41 in which poultry are continuously conveyed into the processing chamber through the inlet and from the processing chamber through the outlet in a continuous process. A pathway is determined to deliver the working gas to the processing chamber to maintain the desired condition within the processing chamber. 44. The invention pursuant to claim 43 in which the method is in the form of an inlet channel adjacent to the outlet of the engine room, through which gas is piped into the operating engine room to flow out through the engine room inlet channel during the cleaning operation. 45. An invention pursuant to claim 41 in which poultry in crates are loaded into an operating room and after the completion of loading the room is opened and cleaned with operating gas. 46. An invention purified under claim 45 in which the operating gas, heavier than air, in the engine room is purified from below. 47. An invention purified under claim 45 in which an operating gas lighter than air in the engine room is purified from above. 48. The invention pursuant to claim 45 in which the container is a transport device relating to the transport of poultry from the farm area to the machinery in the process. 49. Methods of transporting poultry involving the use of machinery capable of performing the kind possible in Claim 45, and the use of such machinery to the advantage of human intervention in stunning or killing poultry during transport (Clause 49, page 7, 10 pictures).