Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Live insects transport device
-
Application No.: US17615590Application Date: 2020-05-20
-
Publication No.: US11985960B2Publication Date: 2024-05-21
- Inventor: Jaap van Kilsdonk , Eric Holland Schmitt , Ralf Henricus Wilhelmina Jacobs , Henricus Petrus Johannes Simons , Maurits Petrus Maria Jansen , Ward Tollenaar
- Applicant: Protix B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Dongen
- Assignee: Protix B.V.
- Current Assignee: Protix B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Dongen
- Agency: N.V. Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
- Priority: NL 23315 2019.06.14 WO TNL2019050767 2019.11.21
- International Application: PCT/NL2020/050321 2020.05.20
- International Announcement: WO2020/246873A 2020.12.10
- Date entered country: 2021-12-01
- Main IPC: A01K67/033
- IPC: A01K67/033 ; B04C5/18

Abstract:
The invention relates to a device for use in large-scale industrial insect farming. More in particular, the invention relates to an insects transport device for transporting live insects from a first location to a predetermined second location, the insects transport device comprising a gas guiding unit, a gas discharge member and a feeder arrangement, wherein the insects transport device is configured to receive live insects such as freshly hatched neonate larvae, for example of black soldier fly, or mites, wherein the live insects are directly taken up in a laminar flow of gas after exiting the feeder arrangement in a free fall under influence of gravitation such that the live insects do not contact any surface of the insects transport device, and while in said gas are transported to a predetermined location in the insects transport device. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the device in industrial insect farming, such as large-scale farming of black soldier flies or mites. The invention also relates to a method of dosing live insects, wherein for example live insects are dosed which are essentially of the same age (e.g. within an age difference of 1 second-5 minutes), such as freshly hatched neonate larvae. In addition, the invention relates to a single dose of neonate larvae obtained with the method, wherein larvae have a small larvae-to-larvae age difference within the single dose.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220304287A1 Live insects transport device Public/Granted day:2022-09-29
Information query