Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Self-propelled animal-shed vehicle for removing manure and an assembly of such an animal-shed vehicle and an animal-shed floor
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Application No.: US14428602Application Date: 2013-09-09
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Publication No.: US09861070B2Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Inventor: Paulus Jacobus Maria Van Adrichem , Karel Van Den Berg , Willem Derreke Kok , Frank Gerard Regelink
- Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Maassluis
- Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.
- Current Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Maassluis
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: NL2009526 20120927
- International Application: PCT/NL2013/050647 WO 20130909
- International Announcement: WO2014/051421 WO 20140403
- Main IPC: A01K1/01
- IPC: A01K1/01 ; B60P1/38

Abstract:
Self-propelled animal-shed vehicle for removing manure from a floor, and comprising a frame, a manure pick-up device, and a manure collecting bin, wherein the manure pick-up device comprises a rotating, continuous manure pick-up belt, at least two reversing parts, around which the belt can be rotatably moved, and a drive for moving the manure pick-up belt around the reversing parts, wherein the manure pick-up device during use keeps the manure pick-up belt in contact with the floor by means of a bottom reversing part, and wherein the drive is configured to move the manure pick-up belt at a peripheral speed, in such a manner that the manure pick-up belt moves from a bottom side of the bottom reversing part to a top side of the reversing part along the reversing part. Such a vehicle can keep an animal-shed floor clean in a very efficient manner. The invention also provides an assembly of such an animal-shed vehicle and an animal-shed floor which is configured to separate manure which lands thereon into solid droppings and urine.
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