Electrically heated semen warming and storage unit
OwnerRaymond R. Alterinventor
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Abstract
A warming and storage unit for quickly thawing frozen artificial insemination materials and in which such materials and insemination guns used in such operations may be stored at desirable temperatures while awaiting use. The unit includes a metal block provided with a thermostatically controlled electric heater means. The block has an elongated vertically extending central well for receiving semen capsules for thawing and a horizontally extending compartment spaced from the well and being of such size as to accommodate and store at least one artificial insemination gun. The metal block is enclosed in a heat insulating housing provided with openings for access to the well and compartment.
Claims4
A warming and storage unit for warming and thawing containers of frozen semen and storing such warmed and thawed containers of semen in guns used in the injection of such semen into an animal in artificial insemination operations, said unit comprising
- a. a housing of heat-insulating material,
- b. a metal block mounted in said housing,
- c. said block having
- 1. an upwardly opening compartment therein for removably receiving such a container of frozen semen to be warmed and thawed, and
- 2. another outwardly opening compartment of such size as to removably receive at least one such a gun to be stored,
- d. said housing having openings therethrough in communication with respective ones of said compartments for affording access to the latter from outside said housing, and
- e. means for controllably heating said block to a predetermined temperature;
- f. said means for heating comprising
- 1. electrically energized heater means mounted in said block in spaced relation to said compartments, and
- 2. means for connecting said heater means to a source of electric power, and
- g. said means for connecting including a heat-sensitive switch attached to said block.
- h. said first mentioned compartment
- 1. being elongated,
- 2. extending substantially vertically, and
- 3. being substantially centered in said block and
- i. said other compartment
- 1. extending substantially horizontally and opening outwardly through one side of said block, and
- 2. being disposed in spaced relation to said first mentioned compartment, and
- j. said opening which is in communication with said other compartment being disposed in said housing in overlying relation to said one side of said block.
A warming and storage unit for containers of semen, said unit comprising
- a. a metal block having
- 1. an elongated, substantially upright well opening upwardly through the top of said block, and
- 2. a compartment
- a. disposed in spaced relation to said well, and
- b. opening outwardly, through, a peripheral surface of said block, said compartment being of a size as to accommodate at least one insemination gun,
- b. a housing
- 1. comprising heat-insulation material, and
- 2. disposed around said block in substantially surrounding relation thereto,
- c. a basket for supporting such containers therein in said well,
- d. said housing having
- 1. an opening in the top thereof in overlying relation to said well in such position that said basket with such a container therein may be moved therethrough into and out of said well, and
- 2. another opening in a surface thereof and disposed in aligned relation to said compartment in such position that an insemination gun containing such a container of semen may be moved through said other opening and through said peripheral surface of said block into and out of stored position in said compartment,
- e. spaced electrically energized heater elements disposed on opposite sides of said well and disposed in spaced relation to said well and to said compartment, and
- f. means for operatively connecting said heater elements to a source of electric power,
- g. said means including a heat-sensitive switch
- 1. mounted in said block in spaced relation to said well and to said compartment, and
- 2. operatively connected to said heater element for controlling the temperature of said block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.