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US 9,414,573 B2Granted
Method for transporting live poultry on board a truck
AssigneesMassimo Zanotti, Giordano Poultry Plast S.P.A.
InventorMassimo Zanotti
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Abstract
A transporting unit for live poultry on board a truck includes a supporting frame and a plurality of drawer-type cages having a lateral wall without aeration openings and intended to be selectively positioned at one side or the opposite side of the supporting frame, depending on the climatic and environmental transport conditions. The drawer-type cages are arranged in a single pile or in two adjacent piles, and in both cases the arrangement is such to be able to occupy the entire width of the loading deck of a truck.
Claims11
A method of transporting poultry, comprising:
- extracting a plurality of drawer-type cages from a supporting frame of a transporting unit;
- introducing poultry into said plurality of drawer-type cages;
- positioning said plurality of drawer-type cages, with poultry loaded in said drawer-type cages, in a stacked arrangement within said supporting frame such that a bottom wall of an upper drawer-type cage serves as a cover for an opening of another, underlying drawer-type cage;
- and
- positioning said transporting unit on a loading deck of a truck, wherein
- said drawer-type cages comprise a lateral wall substantially without aeration openings, and positioning said plurality of drawer-type cages within said supporting frame further comprises positioning said plurality of drawer-type cages with an orientation that is one of:
- (i) an orientation that exposes the poultry to a relatively greater aeration during transport;
- and
- wherein the orientation of said drawer-type cages within said supported frame is selected based on at least one of climate condition and atmospheric condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.