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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7594481 | Carousel animal caging system with a centralized water supply and ventilation plenum An animal caging system has a plurality of stackable support trays with integral water supply conduits to supply water sequentially to each cage and eliminate any channels of stagnant water. Each support tray includes a vertical support member that engages the verti... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7546816 | Fluid delivery valve adapter A fluid delivery adapter for use with a wire bar lid is provided. Embodiments can comprise a support base having an aperture defined therein, the aperture being shaped and dimensioned to accept a fluid delivery valve. The support base can be adapted to be disposed o... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7513218 | Potable water delivery system for animals An animal water supply system includes disposable containers such as plastic bags that can be supplied in bulk in sterile form and filled under a change hood or other sanitary environment using a filling machine located in the sanitary environment. The containers pr... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7451723 | Multipurpose rat cage A multipurpose rat cage is provided for housing a plurality of different species of rodents therein. The rat cage includes a cage bottom having a plurality of integral side walls, a floor and an open top end. The floor has a length and a width such that the area of ... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7363879 | Animal display and habitat assembly A ventilated animal habitat in the form of a frame having at least one shelf supporting an animal enclosure with a ventilation control region including an ambient air inlet and exhaust air outlet and a ducting system also supported by the frame with an exhaust air c... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357097 | Device for shellfish farming Device for cage (1) for shellfish farming, where the cage is placed in the sea or in a tank with water and where the cage's one side (11) is provided with openings, for instance a grid (13) and where the cage's other sides (3, 5, 7, 9) pr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7293529 | Kennel system A kennel system having a floor assembly including at least one floor unit having a floor pan and a grate. The floor pan has a drain, an integral water receptacle and a trough for guiding fluid to the drain. The grate is positioned over the floor pan. The grate has a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7131398 | Air flow sensing and control for animal confinement system An environmental monitoring and controlling system for a ventilated cage and rack system that monitors and measures air flow in the rack at either the rack or cage level. At the rack level, two pressure sensors are provided in a supply air system to accurately monit... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7121229 | Method and system for evaluating interest of a tested animal In a method and system for evaluating interest of a tested animal, first and second dispensers for dispensing respectively a vital first liquid and a second liquid are provided in a closed space confined by a housing for containing the tested animal. The first dispe... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7077075 | Activated feed through, feeding systems incorporating same, and methods of use of same A feed trough is provided for use in cultivation containers for growing frogs and other amphibians. The feed trough is comprised of a sloped floor. In some embodiments the floor slopes downward to an opening from which, during operation, airflows. The opening is cov... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6986324 | Fluid delivery valve system and method A method of forming a valve assembly for delivering a fluid from a fluid bag to an animal caging system for housing an animal can include forming, in an injection molding machine, an upper member having a piercing member and a connecting member. The upper member has... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6983721 | Method and system of providing sealed bags of fluid at the clean side of a laboratory facility A method for facilitating the delivery of water to a plurality of cage level barrier-type cages, for housing animals for an animal study, the method including; providing a plurality of cage level barrier-type cages for an animal study at a laboratory facility site, ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6766768 | Animal cage with wire bar lid The present invention relates to an animal cage for containing animals having a wire bar lid configured to fit on top. The wire bar lid has a perimeter portion with a first support portion and a second portion. The first support portion has a first top side and a fi... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6588371 | High density housing for aquatic animals A housing system for aquatic animals has a shelf-like rack holding tiers of individual tanks or aquariums (aquaria), each removably suspended from structural members that engage flanges of the tanks. The tanks are tilted inwardly of the rack and have cove... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6257170 | Aquatic housing system An aquatic housing system that has a frame that defines two or more housing levels. Each housing level has a plurality of tanks for housing aquatic animals. Each tank has a front mounted plumbing assembly that allows both water overflow and drainage to be... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6142100 | Water and/or liquid foodstuff dispenser for small pets A water and/or liquid foodstuff dispenser for small pets which comprises a container having, at a bottom thereof, a dispensing device which is constituted by a tubular element arranged at an obtuse angle with respect to a longitudinal extension of the con... | 11/07/2000 |
| 5996535 | Cage for laboratory animal A cage system for laboratory animal care has a plastic cage with a molded perforated-bottom, a snap-on plenum cage top, a cage top feeder lid and a snap on waste tray. The floor of the cage is shaped with rounded perforations and domed protrusions to defl... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5865144 | Ventilated cage for laboratory animal A cage system for laboratory animal care has a plastic cage with a molded perforated-bottom, a snap-on plenum cage top, a cage top feeder lid and a snap on waste tray. The floor of the cage is shaped with rounded perforations and domed protrusions to defl... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5765506 | Animal watering system with drinkers having remotely operable height adjustment An animal watering system and method which includes a number of drinkers which can be remotely adjusted, upwardly and downwardly, to correspond with the height of the animals to be watered, as the animals grow, the drinkers having a carriage which slides ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 5749321 | Animal rearing apparatus An animal rearing apparatus includes an animal rearing cage and a framework to which a plurality of side plates together forming the periphery of the animal rearing cage are detachably attached. At the bottom of the animal rearing cage, there are provided... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5474024 | Caging system with slide bar operator for quick disconnect water fitting An animal caging system includes a support such as a ducted rack for receiving animal cages at storage locations in a high density arrangement such as for testing laboratories, breeding establishments and the like. Closed cage boxes are received at the lo... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5385118 | Assembly for animals with positive disconnect from a watering system A water quick disconnect assembly for improving removal of cages from an outside water supply. The assembly automatically turns off a water supply and disconnects a cage from a cage rack system. A water line connector attaches to an outside water supply. ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5337696 | Animal watering system and watering valve usable therewith An animal watering system employs self-locking type quick connect couplings to couple internal watering valves in the cages serviced by the system to an external water manifold, The self-locking quick connect couplings prevent unintentional disconnection ... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5189983 | Poultry house confinement ring system and method A poultry house ring confinement system and method which utilizes permanent, reusable, brooder rings in place of the conventional, temporary and disposable brooder confinement structures. The brooder confinement rings of the present invention are raised a... | 03/02/1993 |
| 4920923 | Poultry breeding method A poultry breeding method comprises the steps of providing a cage device for hens with an independent cage section so as to be free from contact with the other cages and auxiliary devices of the cage device, providing the independent cage section with a w... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4844018 | Water supplying system for small-animal cages In a water supplying system for small animal cages, a main pipe connected to a water supply source, and branch pipes connected to the main pipe are made of a transparent, flexible material such as silicone resin. These main pipe and branch pipes are detac... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4528942 | Set of cages for animals (a) A set of cages for animals. (b) A set characterized in that it is subdivided into groups (4) of four cages (3) each comprising two adjacent cages of a row and two opposite cages in the other row, the central part of each group (4) of four cages having... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4473030 | Artifical insemination apparatus including a stand for use with a battery of cages The invention relates to artificial insemination apparatus, and more particularly to a stand for use with a battery of cages used in rearing and breading poultry such as hens, guinea fowl, turkeys, pheasants, and other domestic or reared birds of animals.... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4299191 | Chick cage system A chick cage system particularly adapted for the raising of chicks into pullets including upper and lower cage rows, the upper cage rows overlying the lower cage rows for approximately one-half of their width. The feed trough in the lower cage is offset l... | 11/10/1981 |
| 4257354 | Means for adjusting heights of nipple waterers A means for adjusting the heights of animal waterers in a multi-cage livestock confinement system includes an elongated water pipe rotatably mounted along an elongated partition which closes one side of a plurality of longitudinally positioned livestock c... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4195592 | Poultry cage system An easily assembled poultry cage system wherein the framework for the system includes a plurality of spaced A-frame members all of which are adapted to be assembled without the use of conventional fasteners. Protrusions and complementary receptacles are u... | 04/01/1980 |
| 4161159 | Instantaneously emptiable externally mounted animal food tray Novel instantaneously emptiable animal food tray, particularly adapted to be mounted externally of but between two juxtaposed and longitudinally facing animal cages, is disclosed. The tray comprises a bottom which is angled downwardly from a central longi... | 07/17/1979 |
| 3991717 | Kennel, circular facility This patent applies to a kennel which incorporates a number of wedge-shaped partially covered enclosures, annularly disposed in an outer ring and inner ring separated by covered corridors. It incorporates a series of gutters for waste removal which resists the... | 11/16/1976 |
| 3976032 | Poultry maintenance system having moving cages Apparatus is provided for maintaining a flock of poultry or the like. The system includes a number of cages which are transported in opposite directions along parallel paths. Upon reaching a path end, each cage is transferred in a straight line to an oppo... | 08/24/1976 |
| 3952703 | Battery-like arrangement of cages for rearing and transporting poultry The invention pertains to a battery for raising poultry wherein the poultry are raised within a plurality of cage units having an open top closable by a separate cover supported on the battery frame above the cage to be enclosed during transport. The batt... | 04/27/1976 |
