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US 4,381,732 AGranted
Poultry nest
OwnerTheodore G. Huisingainventor
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Abstract
A poultry nest and egg collecting apparatus of improved reliability with respect to maintaining the sterility of the shells of eggs which includes a nesting chamber having an open front and a lower nesting surface that is provided with a rearwardly facing egg discharging portion at a higher level than the open front of the nest and is configured to provide a receptacle for receiving and maintaining suitably treated litter of nesting material to improve the sterile characteristics of the nesting environment.
Claims7
An egg collecting poultry nest comprising,
- an enclosure having an open front for access into the enclosure, the enclosure also having a bottom panel with an arcuately curved upwardly facing concave shape, the enclosure also having an opening adjacent a rear edge of the bottom panel over which eggs from the bottom panel are delivered,
- egg collecting means at the rear of the enclosure adjacent the rear edge of the bottom panel,
- a swingably powered pusher panel in the enclosure and having a lower portion swinging arcuately along the bottom panel toward the open front to push a poultry hen off the nest and alternately swinging away from the open front to move an egg on the arcuate bottom panel rearwardly toward the open rear of the enclosure, the lower portion of the pusher panel defining an articulated comb with stiff fingers extending to the arcuate bottom of the panel for carrying an egg toward the open rear of the enclosure, the articulated comb being tiltable upwardly during swinging of the pusher panel toward the open front to pass over an egg on the bottom panel,
- and a quantity of loose litter on the bottom panel and containing a disinfectant to maintain the litter sterile, the litter supporting eggs in the enclosure and allowing the comb fingers to sweep through the litter and along the arcuate bottom panel as eggs in the nest are carried rearwardly by the comb fingers to the rear edge of the bottom panel.
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An egg collecting poultry nest comprising,
- an enclosure having an open front for access into the enclosure, the enclosure also having a bottom panel with an upwardly facing concave shape,
- a swingably powered pusher panel with an upper edge swingably mounted on the enclosure and a lower portion swinging along the concave bottom panel toward the open front to push a poultry hen off the nest and alternately swinging away from the open front to move an egg rearwardly on the bottom panel, the lower portion of the pusher panel defining an articulated comb with stiff depending fingers extending to the bottom panel for carrying an egg toward the open rear of the enclosure, the articulated comb being tiltable upwardly during swinging of the pusher panel toward the open front to pass over an egg on the bottom panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.