Patent Application
20170339912
The present invention relates to an elevated board apparatus, and more particularly to an apparatus for raising poultry and livestock.
In the early days, people raised poultry and livestock in a place which is circled by fences or barriers on the ground, and the raising place should be cleaned regularly by spraying water. However, because of the wide range of activity of poultry and livestock, droppings thereof are scattered around the ground, and over a day, that will be stuck on the ground and will be hard to clean resulting in the environment filling with foul smell. In this raising environment, the poultry and livestock may directly touch and eat their excrement thereby being cross infected, ill and dead.
Thus, for preventing poultry and livestock from being infected and raising places from being contaminated by the excrement, the owner started to raise poultry and livestock on an elevated board apparatus. When the owner raises domestic pigs on the elevated board apparatus which has a hollow structure thereon, the excrement of the domestic pigs will pass through the board apparatus and directly fall down to the ground. However, although the elevated board apparatus separates the domestic pigs from the excrement, it still has its disadvantage in low loading capacity due to its weak supports provided by legs thereof on edges. Also, while the excrement is dropped on the flat ground instead of a tilted surface, it is still hard to be cleaned that leads to some excrement left on the ground. In addition, the excrement must be cleaned by labor including spraying water and scrubbing the ground that needs to waste time and effort. Therefore, there remains a need for a new and improved design for an apparatus for raising poultry and livestock to overcome the problems presented above.
The present invention provides an apparatus for raising poultry and livestock which comprises a plurality of elevated boards configured to be assembled with each other, and each of the elevated boards has a platform. At least two paralleled supporting boards respectively protrude from a bottom portion of the platform, and a flowing channel is formed between the two supporting boards.
Comparing with conventional elevated board apparatus, the present invention is advantageous because: (i) since the elevated boards can be assembled and disassembled, the present invention can fit any size of the farm so as to achieve the practicability of use; (ii) with the design of the supporting boards, the platforms of the elevated boards are separated from the ground with a preferred height, and combined with the holes on the platforms, the excrement of poultry and livestock can directly pass through the holes and fall to the ground instead of sticking on the platforms so as to prevent the poultry and livestock from contacting or eating their excrement resulting in infection; and (iii) the single elevated board comprises at least one flowing channel formed under the bottom portion of the platform between the two supporting boards of the elevated board, and the present invention further has the flushing unit which can be set to automatically spray water through the flushing pipes for each of the flowing channels so as to flush the excrement in the flowing channels. Thus, the present invention can efficiently achieve the cleaning effect of the ground and reduce the possibility of infection of poultry and livestock.
The detailed description set forth below is intended as a description of the presently exemplary device provided in accordance with aspects of the present invention and is not intended to represent the only forms in which the present invention may be prepared or utilized. It is to be understood, rather, that the same or equivalent functions and components may be accomplished by different embodiments that are also intended to be encompassed within the spirit and scope of the invention.
Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood to one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Although any methods, devices and materials similar or equivalent to those described can be used in the practice or testing of the invention, the exemplary methods, devices and materials are now described.
All publications mentioned are incorporated by reference for the purpose of describing and disclosing, for example, the designs and methodologies that are described in the publications that might be used in connection with the presently described invention. The publications listed or discussed above, below and throughout the text are provided solely for their disclosure prior to the filing date of the present application. Nothing herein is to be construed as an admission that the inventors are not entitled to antedate such disclosure by virtue of prior invention.
In order to further understand the goal, characteristics and effect of the present invention, a number of embodiments along with the drawings are illustrated as following:
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Additionally, a pool (25) is settled on the ground (20) adjacent to the elevated boards (10), referring to
Comparing with conventional elevated board apparatus, the present invention is advantageous because: (i) since the elevated boards (10) can be assembled and disassembled, the present invention can fit any size of the farm so as to achieve the practicability of use; (ii) with the design of the supporting boards (12), the platforms (11) of the elevated boards (10) are separated from the ground (20) with a preferred height, and combined with the holes (111) on the platforms (11), the excrement of poultry and livestock can directly pass through the holes (111) and fall to the ground (20) instead of sticking on the platforms (11) so as to prevent the poultry and livestock from contacting or eating their excrement resulting in infection; and (iii) the single elevated board (10) comprises at least one flowing channel (13) formed under the bottom portion of the platform (11) between the two supporting boards (12) of the elevated board (10), and the present invention further has the flushing unit (23) which can be set to automatically spray water through the flushing pipes (231) for each of the flowing channels (13) so as to flush the excrement in the flowing channels (13). Thus, the present invention can efficiently achieve the cleaning effect of the ground (20) and reduce the possibility of infection of poultry and livestock.
Having described the invention by the description and illustrations above, it should be understood that these are exemplary of the invention and are not to be considered as limiting. Accordingly, the invention is not to be considered as limited by the foregoing description, but includes any equivalents.
