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US 8,707,904 B2Granted
Heatable floor for livestock stalls
AssigneeMik International AG
InventorsThomas Ertel, Johannes Weber-Monecke, Roland Frank, Andreas Menne, Werner Drees
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AssigneeMik International AG
InventorsThomas Ertel, Johannes Weber-Monecke, Roland Frank, Andreas Menne, Werner Drees
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The invention relates to a heatable floor for livestock stalls comprising a plurality of hollow, right-angled plate elements whose hollow spaces are filled with a heat transfer fluid and can be heated by means of heating lines (11) running through the hollow spaces, wherein each plate element comprises one upper shell (1) having an inlet opening (5) and forming a standing surface for the livestock and one lower shell (7) supporting the upper shell (1), the shells being connected to one another liquid-tight at their edges and having means for suspending carriers and being supported on one another by supports (6, 9) that run through the hollow space. In order to enable filling of the plate element without bubbles in the floor with increased stability of the plate element, the invention proposes that the supports be formed by laterally open pipe nozzles with round or cornered cross-sections, at least in the region adjacent to the upper shell (1) from below, the lateral openings of the pipe nozzles all being aligned to a filling opening (5) located on the edge of the upper shell (1).
Heatable floor for livestock stalls, which is composed of a plurality of hollow, rectangular plate bodies having cavities filled with a heat carrier liquid and heatable via heating lines that run through the cavities, whereby each plate body has an upper shell forming a standing surface for the livestock, provided with a filling opening, and a lower shell that supports the upper shell, in each instance, which shells are connected with one another at their edges, in fluid-tight manner, and are provided with devices for suspension, the devices for suspension allowing the heatable floor to be suspendable in carriers, and which shells are supported on one another in surface regions of the shells via supports that run through the cavities,
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