Metabolism cage capable of separating metabolite

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of metabolism cages, in particular to a metabolite separable metabolism cage which comprises an upper box body, the bottom of the upper box body is fixedly communicated with a lower box body, and the left side and the right side of the top of the upper box body are respectively connected with a controller and a timer through bolts. A feeding mechanism is connected to the middle of the top of the upper box body through bolts, supporting sliding shells are fixedly connected to the bottoms of the left side and the right side of an inner cavity of the upper box body, and a feeding box is fixedly connected to the bottom of the rear side of the inner cavity of the upper box body. Excreted excrement and urine penetrate through a supporting net plate to fall downwards, excrement particles are large and fall into a separation net box to be collected, urine penetrates through the separation net box to flow into a collection shell and drips into a collection box to be collected, an exhaust fan exhausts peculiar smell gas, and the peculiar smell gas is adsorbed and purified through an activated carbon purification net plate; therefore, the discharged air does not pollute the working environment, and the work of personnel is facilitated.

Description

Technical Field

[0001] The utility model relates to the technical field of metabolic cages, in particular to a metabolic cage with separable metabolites. Background Art

[0002] Metabolic cages are a type of research tool specifically designed for use in the field of biology. They are primarily used to collect and analyze the excreta of experimental animals, such as feces and urine. They can monitor a variety of physiological parameters of experimental animals in real time, including respiratory entropy, food consumption, and excretion volume.

[0003] After searching, the patent number is CN217012233U, and the name is a utility model of a new metabolic cage for highly separating metabolites. A lower cage cylinder is placed on the metabolic cage frame, and an upper cage for raising experimental animals is placed on the lower cage cylinder. A catheter hole can be opened on the bottom side wall of the lower cage cylinder. Through research and analysis, it is found that although the purity of the experimental samples can be guaranteed to the greatest extent, and the specimen collection method is simpler and more efficient, feces can be collected uniformly through a paddle, and urine is collected directly in a centrifuge tube to avoid specimen loss caused by repeated transfers. However, the following defects still exist to a certain extent.

[0004] For example, it does not have the function of air purification. The feces and urine of experimental animals are collected in the cage. After being left for a long time, the air in the cage will be abnormally smelly. The above-mentioned metabolic cage cannot purify the odorous gas, which causes the odorous gas to float out and pollute the working environment, causing discomfort to the experimenters. In addition, it does not have the function of automatic timed feeding, and personnel need to manually put in the feed, which increases the workload of the personnel. In order to solve the above technical problems, we have designed a metabolic cage with separable metabolites. Utility Model Content

[0005] The purpose of the utility model is to provide a metabolic cage with separable metabolic products, which has the advantages of air purification function to prevent environmental pollution, automatic timed feeding function, and reducing the work intensity of personnel, and solves the problems of lack of air purification function, resulting in pollution of the working environment, and lack of automatic timed feeding function, which increases the work intensity of personnel.

[0006] To achieve the above-mentioned purpose, the utility model provides the following technical solutions: a metabolic cage with separable metabolic products, comprising an upper box body, the bottom of the upper box body is fixedly connected to the lower box body, the left and right sides of the top of the upper box body are respectively connected to a controller and a timer by bolts, the middle part of the top of the upper box body is connected to a feeding mechanism by bolts, the bottoms of the left and right sides of the inner cavity of the upper box body are fixedly connected to supporting sliding shells, a supporting mesh plate is slidably inserted between the left and right supporting sliding shells, a feeding box is fixedly connected to the bottom of the rear side of the inner cavity of the upper box body, a purification mechanism is penetrated and connected to the top of the rear side of the inner cavity of the lower box body by bolts, a separation mesh box is placed in the inner cavity of the lower box body, the bottom of the inner cavity of the lower box body is fixedly connected to a collecting shell, and the bottom of the collecting shell is fixedly connected to a storage box.

[0007] Preferably, the feeding mechanism includes a feeding barrel, a storage tank is welded on the front side of the top of the feeding barrel, a driving motor is connected to the front side of the feeding barrel by bolts, the output shaft of the driving motor passes through the inner cavity of the feeding barrel and is fixedly connected to a feeding screw, a discharge pipe is welded on the rear side of the bottom of the feeding barrel, and the bottom of the discharge pipe passes through the inner cavity of the upper box body.

[0008] Preferably, the purification mechanism includes a mounting shell, the front side of the inner cavity of the mounting shell is connected to an exhaust fan by bolts, the middle part of the inner cavity of the mounting shell is fixedly connected to an activated carbon purification mesh plate, and the rear side of the inner cavity of the mounting shell is connected to a ventilation net by bolts.

[0009] Preferably, support slide plates are fixedly connected to the left and right sides of the inner cavity of the lower box body, and support columns are connected to the four corners of the upper box body by bolts.

[0010] Preferably, the front sides of the upper box body and the lower box body are respectively connected with an upper box door and a lower box door through hinges, and the right sides of the front sides of the upper box door and the lower box door are provided with pull grooves.

[0011] Preferably, the output end of the timer is electrically connected to the controller, the output end of the controller is electrically connected to the feeding mechanism, and a collection box is placed in the inner cavity of the storage box.

[0012] Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the utility model are as follows:

[0013] The excreted feces and urine fall downward through the supporting mesh plate. Larger feces particles fall into the separation mesh box for collection. Urine passes through the separation mesh box and flows into the collection shell and drops into the collection box for collection. The exhaust fan extracts the odorous gas and the odorous gas is adsorbed and purified through the activated carbon purification mesh plate. In this way, the exhausted air will not pollute the working environment and is more conducive to the work of personnel.

[0014] After the preset time period is reached, the controller controls the drive motor to drive the feeding screw to rotate forward. The feeding screw transports the feed backward and discharges it into the feeding box through the discharge pipe. The timer controls the discharge time. When the discharge time is reached, the discharge ends. In this way, automatic timed feeding can be performed to reduce the workload of personnel. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0015] Figure 1 It is an axonometric drawing of the structure of the utility model;

[0016] Figure 2 It is the internal axonometric drawing of the upper box body and the lower box body of the utility model;

[0017] Figure 3 It is a left-side sectional isometric view of the upper box body and the feeding mechanism of the utility model;

[0018] Figure 4 It is a top view and a sectional axonometric view of the lower box of the utility model.

[0019] In the figure: 1. upper box body; 2. timer; 3. lower box body; 4. feeding mechanism; 5. controller; 6. upper box door; 7. lower box door; 8. support column; 9. supporting sliding shell; 10. separation net box; 11. collection shell; 12. collection box; 13. storage box; 14. purification mechanism; 15. supporting mesh plate; 16. feeding box; 17. discharge pipe; 18. feeding screw; 19. feeding barrel; 20. driving motor; 21. storage tank; 22. mounting shell; 23. exhaust fan; 24. activated carbon purification mesh plate; 25. ventilation net. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0020] See also Figure 1-Figure 4 , a metabolic cage with separable metabolites, comprising an upper box body 1, the bottom of the upper box body 1 is fixedly connected to a lower box body 3, the left and right sides of the top of the upper box body 1 are respectively connected to a controller 5 and a timer 2 by bolts, the middle part of the top of the upper box body 1 is connected to a feeding mechanism 4 by bolts, the bottom of the left and right sides of the inner cavity of the upper box body 1 are fixedly connected to support sliding shells 9, by setting the support sliding shells 9, the support installation function is provided, and the support mesh plate 15 can be conveniently installed, and the support mesh plate 15 can be conveniently removed, and the support mesh plate 15 is slidably inserted between the left and right support sliding shells 9, the bottom of the rear side of the inner cavity of the upper box body 1 is fixedly connected to a feeding box 16, the top of the rear side of the inner cavity of the lower box body 3 is penetrated and connected to a purification mechanism 14 by bolts, a separation net box 10 is placed in the inner cavity of the lower box body 3, and the bottom of the inner cavity of the lower box body 3 is fixedly connected to a collecting shell 11, by setting the collecting shell 11, it is convenient to flow the urine of the experimental animal back into the storage box 13, and the bottom of the collecting shell 11 is fixedly connected to the storage box 13;

[0021] See also Figure 3The feeding mechanism 4 includes a feeding barrel 19, a storage tank 21 is welded to the front side of the top of the feeding barrel 19, a driving motor 20 is connected to the front side of the feeding barrel 19 by bolts, the output shaft of the driving motor 20 passes through the inner cavity of the feeding barrel 19 and is fixedly connected to the feeding screw 18, and a discharge pipe 17 is welded to the rear side of the bottom of the feeding barrel 19, and the bottom of the discharge pipe 17 passes through the inner cavity of the upper box body 1;

[0022] See also Figure 4 The purification mechanism 14 includes a mounting shell 22, the front side of the inner cavity of the mounting shell 22 is connected to a blower 23 by bolts, the middle part of the inner cavity of the mounting shell 22 is fixedly connected to an activated carbon purification mesh plate 24, and the rear side of the inner cavity of the mounting shell 22 is connected to a ventilation net 25 by bolts. The ventilation net 25 has a protective function and can prevent external debris from entering the mounting shell 22;

[0023] See also Figure 1 and Figure 2 The left and right sides of the inner cavity of the lower box body 3 are fixedly connected with support slides. By setting the support slides, the separation net box 10 can be conveniently supported and placed. The four corners of the upper box body 1 are connected with support columns 8 by bolts;

[0024] See also Figure 1 The front sides of the upper box body 1 and the lower box body 3 are respectively connected with an upper box door 6 and a lower box door 7 through hinges. The right sides of the front sides of the upper box door 6 and the lower box door 7 are provided with a pull groove, and the pull groove is provided to facilitate personnel to pull the box door;

[0025] See also Figure 1 and Figure 2 The output end of the timer 2 is electrically connected to the controller 5 , the output end of the controller 5 is electrically connected to the feeding mechanism 4 , and the inner cavity of the storage box 13 is provided with a collection box 12 .

[0026] When in use, the device is connected to an external power source, the upper box door 6 is opened, and the experimental animals are placed on the supporting mesh plate 15 in the upper box body 1 for feeding. The feces and urine excreted by the experimental animals pass through the mesh holes on the surface of the supporting mesh plate 15 and fall downward. Since the feces particles are large, they fall into the separation mesh box 10 for collection, while the urine passes through the mesh holes at the bottom of the separation mesh box 10 and flows into the collection shell 11, and finally drips into the collection box 12 for collection. The urine and feces in the lower box body 3 will emit an abnormally unpleasant odor. At this time, the exhaust fan 23 is controlled to work to extract the odorous gas in the lower box body 3, and then the odorous gas is adsorbed by the activated carbon purification mesh plate 24. Purification, so that the exhausted air will not pollute the working environment, is more conducive to the work of personnel, the personnel pre-time the timer 2, when the predetermined time period is reached, the timer 2 transmits the information to the controller 5, the controller 5 controls the drive motor 20 to drive the feeding screw 18 to rotate forward, the forward rotating feeding screw 18 makes the feed flowing out of the storage tank 21 transported backward, and finally discharged into the feeding box 16 through the discharge pipe 17, the timer 2 controls the discharge time, when the discharge time is reached, the controller 5 controls the drive motor 20 to stop working and the discharge ends, so that automatic timed feeding can be carried out to reduce the workload of personnel.

[0027] In summary: the metabolic cage with separable metabolites, through the coordinated use of the upper box 1, the timer 2, the lower box 3, the feeding mechanism 4, the controller 5, the separation net box 10, the collection shell 11, the collection box 12, the storage box 13, the purification mechanism 14, the supporting mesh plate 15 and the feeding box 16, solves the problems of lack of air purification function, resulting in pollution of the working environment, and lack of automatic timed feeding function, which increases the work intensity of personnel.

Claims

1. A metabolic cage with separable metabolites, comprising an upper housing (1), characterized in that: The bottom of the upper box body (1) is fixedly connected to the lower box body (3); the left and right sides of the top of the upper box body (1) are respectively connected to a controller (5) and a timer (2) by bolts; the middle of the top of the upper box body (1) is connected to a feeding mechanism (4) by bolts; the bottoms of the left and right sides of the inner cavity of the upper box body (1) are fixedly connected to support sliding shells (9); a support mesh plate (15) is slidably inserted between the left and right support sliding shells (9); the bottom of the rear side of the inner cavity of the upper box body (1) is fixedly connected to a feeding box (16); the top of the rear side of the inner cavity of the lower box body (3) is penetrated by a purification mechanism (14) by bolts; a separation mesh box (10) is placed in the inner cavity of the lower box body (3); the bottom of the inner cavity of the lower box body (3) is fixedly connected to a collecting shell (11); the bottom of the collecting shell (11) is fixedly connected to a storage box (13).

2. A metabolic cage with separable metabolites according to claim 1, characterized in that: The feeding mechanism (4) comprises a feeding barrel (19), a storage tank (21) is welded to the front side of the top of the feeding barrel (19), a driving motor (20) is connected to the front side of the feeding barrel (19) by bolts, an output shaft of the driving motor (20) passes through the inner cavity of the feeding barrel (19) and is fixedly connected to a feeding screw (18), a discharge pipe (17) is welded to the rear side of the bottom of the feeding barrel (19), and the bottom of the discharge pipe (17) passes through the inner cavity of the upper box body (1).

3. The metabolic cage with separable metabolites according to claim 1, characterized in that: The purification mechanism (14) comprises a mounting shell (22), the front side of the inner cavity of the mounting shell (22) being connected to an exhaust fan (23) via bolts, the middle part of the inner cavity of the mounting shell (22) being fixedly connected to an activated carbon purification screen plate (24), and the rear side of the inner cavity of the mounting shell (22) being connected to a ventilation screen (25) via bolts.

4. The metabolic cage with separable metabolites according to claim 1, characterized in that: The left and right sides of the inner cavity of the lower box body (3) are fixedly connected with support slide plates, and the four corners of the upper box body (1) are connected with support columns (8) by bolts.

5. The metabolic cage with separable metabolites according to claim 1, characterized in that: The front sides of the upper box body (1) and the lower box body (3) are respectively connected to an upper box door (6) and a lower box door (7) via hinges, and the right sides of the front sides of the upper box door (6) and the lower box door (7) are both provided with a draw groove.

6. The metabolic cage with separable metabolites according to claim 1, characterized in that: The output end of the timer (2) is electrically connected to the controller (5), the output end of the controller (5) is electrically connected to the feeding mechanism (4), and a collection box (12) is placed in the inner cavity of the storage box (13).

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