An animal feeding vehicle includes a movement control system, a GPS receiver for generating a first set of parameters including location information, a proximity sensor for generating a second set of parameters including spatial information, a position sensor for generating a third set of parameters including motion information, a feeding system including a feeding control system for feeding animals based on a fourth set of parameters. A control unit receives the first, second, third, and fourth sets of parameters, and defines a first mode in which the user controls the movement control system and the feeding control system, and in which the control unit records data representing the first, second, third, and fourth sets of parameters; and a second mode in which the control unit controls the movement control system and the feeding system by comparing recorded data with the first, second, third, and fourth sets of parameters.
An animal feeding vehicle includes a movement control system, a GPS receiver for generating a first set of parameters including location information, a proximity sensor for generating a second set of parameters including spatial information, a position sensor for generating a third set of parameters including motion information, a feeding system including a feeding control system for feeding animals based on a fourth set of parameters. A control unit receives the first, second, third, and fourth sets of parameters, and defines a first mode in which the user controls the movement control system and the feeding control system, and in which the control unit records data representing the first, second, third, and fourth sets of parameters; and a second mode in which the control unit controls the movement control system and the feeding system by comparing recorded data with the first, second, third, and fourth sets of parameters.
The present invention is a hair controller for mounting on a stretching machine used for stretching a pelt on a pelt board. The stretching machine has at least one holder for engaging the pelt. The hair controller includes a device for moving hair aside to expose a selected area of leather on the pelt, in particular the area of leather engaged by the holder. Also disclosed is a method for moving the hair of a pelt aside before the pelt is fixed by a holder in a stretching machine.
Using modern pelt boards (2) with surface (10) with open structure (12) in connection with drying out pelts (36), where the pelt is retained in stretched position during the drying procedure with a holding bag (44), which in an area near the tail part of the pelt is pressing the pelt against a special holding area (4) n the surface of the pelt board, there may occur areas of the pelt where it can't be retained sufficient during the drying procedure, to maintain the stretched size, and further the occurs areas where the pelt is not dried out sufficient and thus becomes moldy or rot. To solve this problem there is indicated a tubular pelt board inner bag (2) of perforated, fat-and moisture absorbing material which is peculiar in, that the pelt board inner bag (6) at least nearest to the first end boundary (26) and/or the second end boundary (24) comprises a number of removals in the bag material in shape of holes (30, 34), and/or rows of holes (28, 32), where the holes (30, 34) has a larger diameter than the perforations. The rows of holes ensures an improved retaining of the pelt in the stretched out position, and further a better drying out of the pelt in the areas where the rows of holes occurs.
In connection with the tumbling of the bodies of killed furred animals, a tumbler (2) has a cavity (21) between A filling opening (20) and A delivery opening (26) that is divided into a number of sections (30, 32) to which the bodies are transferred by a conveyor unit (36) that extends through the tumbler (2), combined with a discharge/recycling arrangement (28) for individual and controlled discharge of the bodies from the tumbler. The conveyor unit (36) also has a bottom section with a worm conveyor for recirculation of the supply of sawdust to the respective sections. The tumbler (2) can be emptied and filled without having to stop operations, and is suitable for use for tumbling of pelts with the leather side outermost or with the fur side outermost, so that the tumbler replaces two or three tumblers which normally are found in a pelt processing plant.
A tumbler (2) which is characterised in that between the filling opening (20) and the delivery opening (26), the cavity (21) in the tumbler is divided into a number of sections (30, 32) to which the bodies are transferred by a conveyor unit (36) which extends through the tumbler (2), combined with a discharge/recycling arrangement (28) for individual and controlled discharge of the bodies from the tumbler. The conveyor unit (36) also comprises a bottom section with a worm conveyor for recirculation of the supply of sawdust to the respective sections. The tumbler (2) can thus be emptied and filled without having to stop operations, and is also suitable for use in the tumbling of pelts respectively with the leather side outermost or with the fur side outermost, so that the tumbler replaces two or three tumblers which are normally to be found in a pelt processing plant.
For reducing the very extensive manual labour in connection with the production of pelts, there is disclosed an individual identification and transport system for use in the handling of killed furred animals and fur pelts, namely mink and mink pelts on mink farms, pelt processing plants, collection and sorting centres, auction houses, tanneries, and with other processing of pelts from furred animals, which is characterised in that it comprises an electronically readable data media (6) for individual identification data (ID-data) for an actual furred animal, and where the electronically readable data media (6) is integrated in a transport and handling arrangement (2) which is inserted through the nostrils of a relevant furred animal immediately after the furred animal has been killed, said transport and handling arrangement (2) constituting a part of a transport and handling system for transport and handling of furred animals and pelts, and which remains together with the pelt from the time at which it is inserted into the pelt until this is processed into furs. By the combination of the system according to the invention with empty ing/filling stations and computer-controlled sorting plants, it thus becomes possible to reduce the amount of manual work for the fur farmer as well as at the auction houses.
B65G 17/20 - Conveyors having an endless traction element, e.g. a chain, transmitting movement to a continuous or substantially-continuous load-carrying surface or to a series of individual load-carriersEndless-chain conveyors in which the chains form the load-carrying surface comprising load-carriers suspended from overhead traction chains
B65G 65/02 - Loading or unloading machines comprising essentially a conveyor for moving the loads associated with a device for picking-up the loads
G09F 3/14 - Fastening or securing by means not forming part of the material of the label itself by strings, straps, chains, or wires
B65C 5/00 - Labelling fabrics or comparable materials or articles with deformable surface, e.g. paper, fabric rolls, stockings, shoes
C14B 17/00 - Details of apparatus or machines for manufacturing or treating skins, hides, leather, or furs
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METHOD AND MACHINE FOR PERFORMING WATER-BRUSHING OF TANED PELTS
Immediately before taned pelts (6) secured on expansion pelt boards (4) with tubular holding bags (8) are dried, it will be expedient to carry out a water- brushing of the taned pelt with the object of achieving a more presentable appear- ance of the of the pelt after the drying procedure, which can result in a high price being obtained in the sale of the pelt. The water-brushing of taned pelts has hitherto been a manual resource- demanding work, and is a process which makes the production of pelts more ex- pensive. There is thus disclosed a method and a machine for carrying out an auto¬ matic, mechanical water-brushing of the fur side (50) of the pelt.
TUBE SHAPED SLEEVE/BAG ITEM FOR FIXATION OF A STRETCHED, WATER BRUSHED MINK PELT, ON A PELT BOARD, DURING THE DRYING OUT OF THE LEATHER SIDE OF THE MINK PELT
In connection with the taning and drying of pelts (20), where the pelt is secured in the stretched position on a distension element/pelt board (4) by means of a tubular holding bag (2) with a narrowed-down area (10), there is disclosed a holding bag (2) for use in cases where the fur side of the pelt shall be water- brushed after the taning. The bag is characteristic in that in the end oriented towards the nose end (30), the tubular holding bag (2) comprises at least one slotted/blanked-out part (24) which extends substantially between the end of the narrowing-down (10) which is oriented towards the nose end (30) of the pelt board, and the end (22) of the tubular holding bag (2) oriented towards the nose end (30) of the pelt board. The tubular holding bag can hereby continue to be used together with fully automatic taning, and at the same time the pelt can be water-brushed mechanically without any risk of water collecting between the wall of the bag and the fur side of the pelt, in that the slotted part (25) of the holding bag (2) can be folded back and down so that it extends out over the narrowed-down area (10).
During the various work processes in the production of fur pelts, a lot of manual work is involved with the internal transport between the different work processes.There is disclosed a mink/fox transportation system (2) for individual transport during the production of mink/ fox furs, for example the transport of upright-standing expansion pelt boards (4), with or without taned, or taned and dried pelts, to one or more relevant receiving stations (170, 172), which comprises at least one, preferably a plurality, of self-driven traction units/carriages (10) driven along a predetermined path in the form of a track (6) which consists of track elements (8, 8', 8', 8'') as sembled together, where said traction units (10) comprise a cabinet (12) with an upwardly-facing side (20) which comprises an opening (14) for receiving a blunt part (18) extending from the foot end (16) of the pelt board, or surrounds a smaller part of the whole of the foot end of a pelt board.
In connection with the various working operations in the production of furs, a not inconsiderable amount of manual labour is involved in the handling of the pelt boards or expansion pelt boards between the various work processes, which in accordance with modern production of furs is mechanised. In order to make the production of furs more profitable, it is necessary to reduce the above-mentioned manual labour to a minimum. There is thus disclosed a device (2) for performing a complete or partial emp- tying/filling of a drying aggregate (4) for upstanding expansion pelt boards (8), with or without taned, or taned and dried pelts), to one or more suitable receiving stations (10, 12, 14) for further transport and/or handling, which comprises a gripping element (18) which can be activated for displacement, the movements of which are controlled by a control unit (68) so that upstanding expansion pelt boards (8) with or without taned, dried pelts, are transferred automatically in upstanding position from the surface (6) of the drying aggregate to a relevant receiving point (10, 12, 14) for further handling and transport.
The mounting of pelt board inner bags (4), which typically consist of a tubular bag/wrapper of fat absorbing material, the geometry and circumference of which correspond to an expansion pelt board, is in accordance with the presently known technique carried out manually, i.e. a person takes old of a pelt board inner bag (4) and draws the bag on and over the expansion pelt board (4) to a desired position on the board, after which this is ready for the mounting of a pelt for taning. Seen in the fight of the typical number of bags which shall be mounted on the boards during the course of a pelt processing season, this manual work constitutes a great many hours of manual work which is monotonous and which contributes towards making the production of furs an expensive undertaking. There is thus disclosed a method and an arrangement (2) for the automating of the mounting of a pelt board inner bag (4) on an expansion pelt board (6) with a nose end/pointed end (60) and a foot end (9), and a locking/distension element (11) which comprises a blunt part (7) which from the foot end extends in the longitudinal direction of the board, in which the expansion pelt board (6) is fastened in the upright position opposite a bag mounting area (16) by the arrangement (2).
The work of removing stretched, dried pelts (4) from pelt boards is very labour-intensive, and is therefore a very cost-generating factor within the production of pelts for furs. There is disclosed a method for the fully automatic removal of dried pelts (4) from expansion pelt boards (6), where both the holding bag (8) and a possible pelt board inner bag (10) are removed during the removal of the pelt (4) from the expansion pelt board (6). There is also disclosed a method for stacking of the removed pelts, and an arrangement (2) for the execution of the method according to the invention.
A method, a system and a pelt board for the drying of the leather side of pelts from furred animals, in which the pelt board is a hollow distension element, the surface of which has an open structure. The leather side is dried by changing the air within the distension element. The distension element is lockable in a position in which it has a first circumference, and can also assume a position or be force controlled to a position in which it has a circumference which is smaller than the first, which results in a considerably easier removal of the pelt from the pelt board. A quicker, more uniform and more effective drying of the pelts is achieved, so that “black spots” on the leather side are avoided, and the pelt is fixed in its stretched position on the pelt board without the use of clips/staples.
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Goods & Services
Machines and machine tools; motors and engines (except for land vehicles); machine coupling and transmission components (except for land vehicles) agricultural implements other than hand-operated; incubators or eggs; fully automatic sheet dispensers (machines) including cutting plants for the cutting of sheets out of a rolled-up supply of cardboard or paper, with plant for applying anti-skid coating on cardboard or paper, and with cutting plant for the cutting of sheets out of a rolled-up supply of cardboard or paper, with plant for applying anti-skid coating on cardboard or paper, out of a rolled-up supply of cardboard or paper, and with cutting plant for the cutting out of sheets, with plant for applying anti-skid coating on cardboard or paper from a rolled-up supply of cardboard or paper, and with cutting plant for the cutting out of sheets intended as intermediate sheets for stabilising of goods on pallets, with plant for applying anti-skid coating on cardboard or paper out of a rolled-up supply of cardboard and paper, and with cutting plant for the cutting out of sheets intended as intermediate sheets for stabilising of goods on pallets, prepared for integration with fully automatic palletizing plants, and with a feeding of intermediate sheets in varying dimensions, based on an exchange of signals from the palletizing robot or conventional pick-and-place equipment. Paper/cardboard in different thicknesses and gram weights; paper/cardboard with anti-skid coating cut out in sheets; paper/cardboard with anti-skid coating cut out in sheets for use as intermediate sheets for stabilising and safeguarding goods on pallets. Transport; packaging and storage of goods; transport, packaging and storage consultancy; packaging and storage of goods in the form of preparing a fully automatic sheet dispenser with associated paper products in roll form.
