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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176879 | Machine for alternating conveyor belt livestock loading Machine for alternating conveyor belt livestock loading with pre-loader having conveyor belt, main conveyor section having lift section, top section, and conveyor belt, swing belt section, which may or may not be pivotable, having conveyor belt, and auto-loader sect... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8122854 | Chicken-loading vehicle A fowl-loading vehicle is described, the vehicle comprising: a chassis, wheels or tracks for supporting the chassis relative to the ground; a pick-up conveyor belt for picking up fowl from the ground and a storage conveyor belt which receives fowl from the pick-up c... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7849820 | Machine for alternating conveyor belt livestock loading Machine for alternating conveyor belt livestock loading with pre-loader having conveyor belt, main conveyor section having lift section, top section, and conveyor belt, swing belt section having conveyor belt, and autoloader section having plurality of conveyor belt... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7281496 | Poultry-loading machine The invention describes a poultry-loading machine able to guide poultry into a cage, the cage having an opening and a bottom surface. The machine comprises: a main frame; a first conveyor belt for transporting the poultry from a first position into a second position... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7175516 | Poultry processing hub and belt assembly This invention relates to a hub and belt assembly for driving a poultry de-feathering machine and more particularly to a multiple bearing heat dissipating hub driven by a serrated timing belt. The hub assembly incorporates seals along a drive shaft to reduce wear ca... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7152726 | Livestock loading chute A livestock loading chute is suitable for attachment to the rear frame of any dock loading livestock trailer to permit either dock loading or ground loading of livestock. The livestock loading chute includes an upper chute section, attached to the rear frame of the ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7150465 | Mission adaptable portable cart/utility table arrangement A mission adaptable multi-purpose, collapsible portable cart/utility table, for use in emergency response and disaster situations, camping, hunting and other outdoors activities, which carries medical rescue carts, canoes, small boats, game, or hauled cargo by hand.... | 12/19/2006 |
| 6976454 | Apparatus for loading fowl An apparatus for capturing and loading fowl having a mobile frame to which a forward conveyor and a rearward conveyor are pivotally mounted. The forward conveyor has plurality of fingered drums that are rotated to engage the fowl and place them on the conveyor for m... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6880488 | Live poultry loading system An apparatus and method for loading live poultry into cages for shipment to a processing station. The system comprises a trailer having an assembly and movement station to accept the deposit of live poultry. After deposit, the poultry moves by conveyor belt to a dro... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6655897 | Systems and methods for transporting young fowl from a hatchery to a growout house A portable device for transporting young fowl from a hatchery to a growout house within a climate-controlled compartment located on a delivery vehicle, wherein the portable device can be composed, in part, of a frame, at least one conveyor belt, at least ... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6623232 | Equipment for moving cages used for holding and transporting chickens, hens, and similar A transportation arrangement includes a closed track with a chain running along the closed track. A plurality of base frames are arranged on the chain and move along the track by the chain which is powered by a motor. A plurality of counter frames are eac... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6612918 | Poultry cage staging and filling method and apparatus A series of multi-compartmented, multi-tier poultry cages are staged for loading by a poultry loader that moves transversely to the direction of a plurality of side-by-side poultry receiving and batching bins each having parallel conveyor belts longitudin... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6454510 | Livestock unloading system A livestock unloading system for unloading livestock from a storage unit of a transport vehicle to a processing plant or storage facility. The unloading system includes a conveyor system whereby livestock ride from the storage unit to their destination. T... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6447234 | Livestock loading/unloading system A livestock loading/unloading system for transporting livestock from/to a confinement area to/from a transport vehicle to allow transport from farm-to-farm, from farm-to-processing plant or from processing plant-to-farm. The livestock loading/unloading sy... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6443102 | Apparatus and method for loading poultry into containers Apparatus and method for loading poultry into containers (6). Via a supply track (7, 7') and buffers (19, 20), animals are gathered to form groups and brought into containers (6). A distributing conveyor (33) groups animals alternately in the one and the ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6209492 | Method and apparatus for a mobile cart for herding livestock A livestock herding cart with a chassis having forward and rearward wheel assemblies that allows movement upon a raised track. Connected to the chassis is a seat and moveable gate. The seat is positioned above the chassis and the gate extends below the ch... | 04/03/2001 |
| 5915338 | Method and apparatus for loading turkeys A turkey loading apparatus and method for loading turkeys includes a support structure adapted to the position at a gathering location. A conveyer conveys the turkeys to a dumping end. A loading box is operatively connected to the support structure. The l... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5863174 | Apparatus for picking up poultry from breeding pens An automatic apparatus for picking up poultry in general from breeding pens and the like, including a pick-up assembly that is operatively associable with a transfer conveyor. The pick-up assembly comprises at least one conveyor with an inclined plane tha... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5743217 | Turkey loading apparatus and method An improved method and apparatus for automatically, efficiently and safely loading birds, and preferably turkeys, through side access ports of stacked transport coops are disclosed. A primary lift conveyor is positioned to lift the birds to be loaded at a... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5706765 | Method and apparatus for cooping chickens A cooping apparatus by which a large number of chickens, such as may be found growing within a chicken house, are mechanically transferred into a multi-tiered coop. A conveyor is supported along the length of a boom, and a chicken gathering apparatus is s... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5699755 | Livestock handling apparatus and method Apparatus for loading live poultry into open-topped containers (19) comprise a plurality (preferably three) loading units (28) arranged side by side so that each loading unit (28) is aligned with a column of containers (19) accommodated in a standard modu... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5660147 | Livestock handling apparatus and method Apparatus for loading live poultry into open-topped containers (19) comprise a plurality (preferably three) loading units (28) arranged side by side so that each loading unit (28) is aligned with a column of containers (19) accommodated in a standard modu... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5592902 | Method and apparatus for cooping chickens A cooping apparatus by which a large number of chickens, such as may be found growing within a chicken house, are mechanically transferred into a multi-tiered coop. A conveyor is supported along the length of a boom, and a chicken gathering apparatus is s... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5469815 | Method of loading live poultry A method of loading live poultry is described. Firstly, provide a transport vehicle having a plurality of empty poultry crates, a trailer having a two tiered trailer mounted conveyor, and a plurality of interconnectable two tiered conveyor sections. The t... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5385117 | Poultry collection device A poultry collection device for gathering poultry and loading the poultry into carrying cages. The poultry collection device includes a poultry-engaging assembly mounted on the front end of a wheeled frame, which assembly is characterized by a pair of rec... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5361727 | Poultry harvester A poultry harvester has a pick-up head feeding birds from the front end of the harvester onto a conveyor belt. The pick-up head includes a three-rotor array with the poultry-handling elements on each rotor abutting and/or intermeshing with the elements of... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5325820 | Poultry harvester A poultry harvester capable of capturing poultry on a generally horizontal plane, such as the floor of a poultry house, and transferring a predetermined number of captured poultry to a compartment of a cage having a plurality of compartments. A capturing ... | 07/05/1994 |
| 4766850 | Method and apparatus for collecting and conveying objects from a surface A method and apparatus for collecting objects from a surface, especially poultry from the ground, in which the apparatus comprises, with reference to FIG. 1, a mobile unit 1, provided with a rotatable paddle device 5, 6 which is supported by arms 20, 24 a... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4736710 | Device for picking up animals e.g. chickens from a ground surface A device for picking up animals such as chickens from a ground surface and for conducting them away, comprising a frame, a suction conveyor arranged on the frame and provided with suction means and delivery means adjoining said suction conveyor. The sucti... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4669423 | Device for packing poultry in boxes or containers Device for packing poultry in a box comprising an endless belt (19) running over a plurality of rolls (14-18) with horizontal axles and provided with spaced apart rows of fingers (20), which are hingedly connected with the belt (19) said belt (19) having ... | 06/02/1987 |
| 4602594 | Device for packing poultry in boxes or containers Device for packing poultry in a box comprising an endless belt (19) running over a plurality of rolls (14-18) with horizontal axles and provided with spaced apart rows of fingers (20), which are hingedly connected with the belt (19) said belt (19) having ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4600351 | Fowl metering and cooping system A fowl harvesting apparatus receives fowl which are conveyed upwardly and deposited in a metering tray which actuates a switch to cut off the conveyor when a desired number of fowl have been deposited in the tray. The tray is then moved downwardly on a su... | 07/15/1986 |
| 4567852 | Chicken harvesting machine A chicken harvesting machine which includes a wheel mounted main chassis, a chicken pickup conveyor at one end of the chassis, an elevating framework movably supporting the chicken pickup conveyor on the chassis, a discharge conveyor movably mounted on th... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4513689 | Poultry-harvesting assembly A broiler harvester 10 (FIG. 1a) comprises contra-rotating pick-up rotors 12, 13 and a third pick-up rotor 14 arranged in front of and co-operating with the other two rotors in a triangular formation. In operation the rotors 12, 13 discharge the broilers ... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4508062 | Poultry-harvesting assembly A poultry-harvester 10 (FIG. 1) for use in a poultry house comprises two contra-rotating rotors 12, 13 arranged side by side with the flexible fingers 20 of each rotor abutting and/or intermeshing with the fingers 20 of the other rotor. In operation, as t... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4467745 | Chicken harvesting machine A chicken harvesting machine which includes a wheel mounted main chassis, a chicken pickup conveyor at one end of the chassis, an elevating framework movably supporting the chicken pickup conveyor on the chassis, a discharge conveyor movably mounted on th... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4321889 | Livestock loading device A livestock loading device having a motorized conveyor belt, travelling on a variable height platform. The device is installed inside a livestock finishing building, with one end of the platform constrained to travel in a vertical plane within the doorway... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4201156 | Live poultry conveying, counting and crating device A live poultry-conveying, counting and crating device is described which comprises (a) a chicken house; (b) a counting station; (c) live poultry-conveying mechanism for conveying live poultry inside and out of the chicken house through the counting station; (d... | 05/06/1980 |
| 4074658 | Turkey loader A turkey loader for transferring live birds of a flock to cages, e.g. on a van or truck for carrying same to market, comprises a conveyor belt mounted upon the elevatable member of a forklift vehicle and provided at one end with a raisable and lowerable g... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4037565 | System for harvesting and transporting chickens A system for harvesting and transporting chickens comprising a self-propelled vehicle having finger-carrying chicken harvesting means at one side thereof for picking up and elevating chickens as the vehicle advances; a first conveyor carried on said vehic... | 07/26/1977 |
