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US 3,931,661 AGranted
Apparatus for cleaning and disinfecting insemination straws
AssigneeTur-Colossus, Inc.
InventorsAlbertus G. Horsting, Samuel Luzaich
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Abstract
Apparatus for scrubbing, rinsing, drying and packaging very fine, hollow cylinders or straws employed in artificial poultry insemination, includes straw transport means moving straws in fixed orientation through successive cycles including interior washing and drying and magazine loading entirely automatically.
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Apparatus for cleaning and disinfecting small straws employed for artificial poultry inseminations comprising
- a pair of parallel endless chains having spaced depressions thereon for receiving straws to be carried thereby and extending over first and second rotatably mounted cylinders with one cylinder being driven to thus move said chains together for transporting straws,
- means holding straws on said chains,
- at least one rotary mounted brush disposed at a first station above said chains in position to scrub straws carried by said chains past the brush,
- means directing cleaning disinfecting fluid onto said straws and through said straws at said first station,
- means defining a second station through which said chains pass and including means directing a rinse fluid onto and through straws carried by said chains, and
- straw drying means directing a jet of air through rinsed straws on said chains and directing air onto the exterior of said straws.
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