Tracking and marking system
AssigneeAleis Trakit Pty Ltd.
InventorJohn Douglas Frank Finlayson
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An identification apparatus for animals or carcasses carrying electronic identification devices, (EID) (2) moving past an antenna (10). The identification apparatus including motion sensing means (12, 13, 14, 17) and marking means (16) adapted mark the animals or carcasses according to whether EID (2) is present, absent or non-functioning, whereby the animals' carcasses can be identified, drafted or sorted according to marking supplied.
Claims12
An identification apparatus for use with animals or carcasses, the apparatus including in combination:
- electronic reading means to read electronic signals from electronic identification devices (EID) carried by animals or carcasses moving past the electronic reading means;
- marking means adapted to mark the animals or carcasses;
- and
- motion sensing means adapted to detect the animal or carcass moving past the motion sensing means,
- wherein in use, animals or carcasses which pass the motion sensing means and the electronic reading means are selectively marked by the marking means in response to whether the electronic reading means reads a signal from an electronic identification device.
A method of identifying non-EID and non-functioning EID carrying animals or carcasses from EID carrying animals or carcasses, said method including steps of:
- (a) moving animals or carcasses along a race or defined passage associated with an electronic reading means, a motion sensing means and a marking means, the operation of all of which is controlled and co-ordinated by microprocessor control means;
- and
- (b) marking with a distinguishing or identifiable marking substance animals or carcasses which have passed the electronic reading means without recording a signal where the EID is non-functioning or absent but which have been detected by the motion sensing means;
- actuating a visual and/or audible alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.