Automatic feeding and water drinking device for experimental animals

Abstract

The utility model discloses an automatic feeding and drinking device for experimental animals, relates to the technical field of experimental animal breeding equipment, and aims to solve the technical problems that as a water fountain and a trough are mounted in a breeding box at present, the water fountain and the trough are inconvenient to disassemble and clean, microorganisms such as bacteria and molds are easy to breed after long-term use, and the feeding and drinking safety is influenced. Comprising a feeding box, a feeding device and a water supply device which are located above the feeding box are installed on one side of the feeding box, a discharging port of the feeding device and a discharging port of the water supply device are both located in the feeding box, and a feeding box is fixedly installed at the bottom of the feeding box; the feed trough and the water trough are both arranged on the rectangular strip and can be conveniently and synchronously disassembled and assembled, a worker can easily disassemble the feeding box from the bottom of the feeding box only by operating a simple fixing piece, complex tools or a lot of time do not need to be used, and the feeding box disassembling and assembling device has the advantages of being simple in structure, convenient and fast to operate and high in practicability. And the inclined disassembly and assembly difficulty is reduced.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to experimental animal breeding equipment technical field more specifically, relate to a kind of experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device. BACKGROUND

[0002] In modern life science research, the feeding environment and conditions of experimental animals play a crucial role in the accuracy and reliability of experimental results. The emergence of experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device greatly improves the feeding efficiency, reduces the error and labor intensity of manual operation, and enables experimental animals to grow and reproduce in a relatively stable and standardized environment.

[0003] The current existing experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device generally has a prominent problem, which is difficult to periodically clean and disinfect key facilities such as waterers and feeding troughs. After long-term use, waterers and feeding troughs are prone to breed bacteria, mold and other microorganisms. These microorganisms not only contaminate feed and water, leading to experimental animals ingesting contaminated food and water, which in turn affects their health status and physiological indicators, but also may introduce additional experimental interference factors, causing experimental results to deviate, reducing the scientificity and reliability of experiments. In view of this, we propose an experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device. SUMMARY

[0004] The utility model aims at overcoming the deficiency of prior art, adapting to reality needs, providing an experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device to solve the technical problem of current waterers and feeding troughs installed in feeding cages, leading to inconvenient disassembly and cleaning, and long-term use prone to breed bacteria, mold and other microorganisms, affecting feeding and drinking safety.

[0005] To solve the above technical problems, the utility model provides the following technical scheme: an experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device, comprising a feeding cage, a feeding device and a water supply device installed on one side of the feeding cage above the feeding cage, and the discharge openings of the feeding device and the water supply device are located inside the feeding cage, and a feeding box is fixedly installed at the bottom of the feeding cage.

[0006] The feeding box comprises a rectangular strip, the top of the rectangular strip is separately provided with a feed trough and a water trough, both of which are circular arc-shaped, an extension plate for shielding is fixedly arranged on the top of the rectangular strip, a feeding trough is formed on the side wall of the extension plate close to the feed trough, and a water suction pipe for water absorption is fixedly installed on the side wall of the extension plate close to the water trough.

[0007] The bottom of the feeding cage is provided with a slot corresponding to the position of the water suction pipe, and a fixing member is fixedly installed at the bottom of the feeding cage and attached to the bottom of the rectangular strip.

[0008] The utility model discloses a simple structure, convenient operation, and can be conveniently disassembled and assembled, and the feeding box can be conveniently disassembled from the bottom of the breeding box, and the operation steps can be introduced, and the disassembling and cleaning speed is improved.

[0009] Preferably, the fixing piece comprises a fixing block fixed at the bottom of the breeding box, a limiting insert plate is movably arranged in the middle of the fixing block, a limiting plate is fixed on one side of the limiting insert plate and can be attached to the side surface of the fixing block, a resistance strip for limiting is movably connected to the other side of the limiting insert plate, and the resistance strip is fixedly connected to the bottom of the breeding box.

[0010] Preferably, the limiting plate is fixedly provided with an elastic arc-shaped clamping strip on the side surface close to the bottom of the fixing block, and the bottom of the fixing block is provided with a clamping groove matched with the arc-shaped clamping strip.

[0011] Preferably, the inside of the breeding box is fixedly provided with a partition plate attached to the side surface of the rectangular strip, and the side wall of the partition plate is respectively provided with an eating window and a slot corresponding to the positions of the eating trough and the water suction pipe.

[0012] Preferably, the side surface of the partition plate close to the feeding box is also fixedly provided with two L-shaped plates, and a baffle attached to the top of the feeding box is movably arranged between the L-shaped plates and the partition plate.

[0013] Preferably, a movable slot is vertically arranged on the plate wall of the L-shaped plate, and a limiting block is fixedly arranged on the side wall of the baffle and slidably connected with the movable slot.

[0014] Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the beneficial effects that:

[0015] 1、The utility model discloses a simple structure, convenient operation, and can be conveniently disassembled and assembled, and the feeding box can be conveniently disassembled from the bottom of the breeding box, and the operation steps can be introduced, and the disassembling and cleaning speed is improved.

[0016] 2, the utility model discloses still through the rectangular bar top is equipped with arc -shaped feed trough and water tank, and the experimental animal is convenient for eating and drinking, and the extension plate can shield the protection to feed trough and water tank to prevent the pollution of feed and water, and the eating trough is convenient for the experimental animal to eat feed, and the eating space is limited, and the pollution to feed is reduced, and the water pipe can effectively suck the water in the water tank, guarantee the supply and the cleanness of water source, and therefore can improve the cleanness of the animal feeding.

[0017] 3. The utility model discloses still through the design of fixed part makes feeding box can conveniently install in the bottom of the breeding case, and the cooperation of spacing plugboard, limiting board and resistance strip, and the clamping of arc -shaped clamping strip and the slot can further improve the stability of feeding box installation, and it is difficult to appear the phenomenon such as loosening and falling off, and also convenient to detach, convenient for the cleaning and maintenance of feeding box. It is convenient to operate. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0018] Figure 1 It is the whole structure schematic diagram of the utility model;

[0019] Figure 2 It is the cut -open structure schematic diagram of the utility model;

[0020] Figure 3 It is the cut -open structure schematic diagram of the other side of the utility model;

[0021] Figure 4 It is the cut -open structure schematic diagram of the utility model;

[0022] Figure 5 It is the cut -open structure schematic diagram of the breeding case in the utility model;

[0023] Figure 6 It is Figure 5 The structure enlarged schematic diagram of part A in the utility model.

[0024] Mark number explanation in drawing: 1, breeding case;101, installation groove;102, plug groove;2, feeding device;3, water supply device;4, baffle;401, eating window;402, slot;403, L-shaped plate;404, baffle;405, movable tank;406, limiting block;5, feeding box;501, rectangular bar;502, feed trough;503, water tank;504, extension plate;505, eating trough;506, water suction pipe;6, fixed part;601, fixed block;602, spacing plugboard;603, limiting board;604, arc -shaped clamping strip;605, slot;606, resistance strip. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0025] As Figures 1 to 6The utility model relates to an experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device, including the feeding box 1, the feeding box 1 one side is installed and is located in the feeding box 1 top feeding device 2 and water supply device 3, and the discharge port of feeding device 2 and water supply device 3 all are located in the inside of feeding box 1, and the bottom fixed mounting of feeding box 1 has feeding box 5, feeding device 2 and water supply device 3 are all prior art structure, and feeding device 2 can pass through the stirring structure and stir the feed, prevent the feed from coagulating, and can reach the accurate dosing effect of spiral dosing structure, water supply device 3 can pass through the filter screen setting and improve water quality, and the electromagnetic valve of cooperation regulation water flow can control the flow rate, reach the effect of automatic addition, and the feeding box 5 from the feeding box 1 bottom inward installation mode can reduce the installation step, improve the dismounting speed.

[0026] Feeding box 5 includes rectangular strip 501, and the top of rectangular strip 501 is separately provided with feed groove 502 and water tank 503, which are both circular arc, and the top of rectangular strip 501 is fixedly provided with extension plate 504 for shielding, the side wall of extension plate 504 close to feed groove 502 is provided with eating groove 505, and the side wall of extension plate 504 close to water tank 503 is fixedly provided with water suction pipe 506 for water suction; by setting feed groove 502 and water tank 503 on rectangular strip 501, the effect of integrated and synchronous disassembly can be achieved, which can reduce the repeated disassembly steps, and the extension plate 504 can block the pollution of feed or water, the eating groove 505 can limit the range of eating, reduce the pollution of feed by animals, and the water suction pipe 506 can reduce the pollution of water source, which can improve the cleanliness of animal eating.

[0027] The bottom of feeding box 1 is provided with insertion slot 102 corresponding to the position of water suction pipe 506, and the bottom of feeding box 1 is fixedly provided with fixed part 6 adhering to the bottom of rectangular strip 501; by setting fixed part 6, the feeding box 5 can be supported and limited after installation, which is convenient for releasing the limited state and achieving easy disassembly.

[0028] In the embodiment of the utility model, fixed piece 6 includes fixed block 601 fixed at the bottom of feeding box 1, the middle part of fixed block 601 movably inserts limit insert plate 602, one side of limit insert plate 602 is fixedly provided with limit plate 603 which can be attached to the side surface of fixed block 601, the other side of limit insert plate 602 movably inserts resistance strip 606 for limiting, and resistance strip 606 is fixedly connected with the bottom of feeding box 1;The transverse movement of limit insert plate 602 can be facilitated by the setting of fixed block 601, a position for limiting movement is provided for limit insert plate 602, limit plate 603 can limit the moving interval, and meanwhile the force point can be increased, the movement of limit insert plate 602 is facilitated by pushing and pulling, and the setting of resistance strip 606 can increase the supporting point when limit insert plate 602 is moved in place, so that the supporting strength of limit insert plate 602 to feeding box 5 can be strengthened.

[0029] In the embodiment of the utility model, the side surface of limit plate 603 close to the bottom of fixed block 601 is fixedly provided with arc-shaped clamping strip 604 with elasticity, and the bottom of fixed block 601 is provided with clamping groove 605 clamped with arc-shaped clamping strip 604;The cooperation of arc-shaped clamping strip 604 and clamping groove 605 can increase the limiting point when limit insert plate 602 is moved in place, so that a certain strength is required when returning to control the displacement of limit insert plate 602, and the stability of limit insert plate 602 is improved.

[0030] In the embodiment of the utility model, the inside of feeding box 1 is fixedly provided with partition plate 4 attached to the side surface of rectangular strip 501, and eat window 401 and slot 402 corresponding to the positions of eating trough 505 and water suction pipe 506 are respectively formed in the side wall of partition plate 4;The movement of animals in the eating area can be blocked by the setting of partition plate 4, so that animals can be prevented from moving to this position when feeding box 5 is disassembled, and the movement range of animals is limited.

[0031] In the embodiment of the utility model, the side surface of partition plate 4 close to feeding box 5 is also fixedly provided with two L-shaped plates 403, and baffle 404 attached to the top of feeding box 5 is movably installed between L-shaped plate 403 and partition plate 4;Baffle 404 can be automatically lifted when feeding box 5 is installed, and can be automatically dropped when feeding box 5 is disassembled, so that the effect of blocking eat window 401 and slot 402 can be achieved.

[0032] In the embodiment of the utility model, vertical movement groove 405 is formed in the wall of L-shaped plate 403, and limit block 406 in sliding connection with movement groove 405 is fixedly arranged on the side wall of baffle 404;The sliding displacement of baffle 404 is facilitated by cooperation.

[0033] Working principle: the embodiment provides an experimental animal automation feeding and drinking device, when in use, first, the feeding device 2 and the water supply device 3 are installed on one side of the breeding box 1, ensure that they are located above the breeding box 1, and the discharge port of the feeding device 2 and the water supply device 3 are accurately located in the inside of the breeding box 1, so that the feed and water can be smoothly dropped into the designated position, the inside of the feeding device 2 can be provided with a stirring device, the feed can be prevented from solidifying through stirring, and a spiral structure can be additionally installed in the feeding pipe, the accuracy of feed feeding can be improved through spiral feeding, the water supply device 3 can additionally install the electromagnetic valve capable of controlling the water flow rate on the water outlet pipe, and the filter screen can be additionally installed at the position of the water outlet, these are prior art, and specific description is not made here, when the feeding box 5 is installed, it can be inserted into the inside of the breeding box 1 through the installation slot 101 at the bottom of the breeding box 1, convenient to push and move upwards, the water suction pipe 506 can be moved upwards along the position of the slot 102 at the bottom of the breeding box 1 during the moving process, the limiting plug plate 602 can be pushed after being moved in place, so that it is attached to the bottom of the rectangular strip 501, the supporting effect can be enhanced when the side end of the limiting plug plate 602 is connected with the resistance strip 606, so that the position of the rectangular strip 501 can be fixed, the effect of fixed installation is achieved, so that the feeding device 2 can add feed into the inside of the feed trough 502, and the water supply device 3 can add water into the water tank 503, the arc-shaped design can achieve the effect of automatic flow guiding, the animals are convenient to eat feed, the water suction pipe 506 is convenient for the animals to drink water, and the water suction end of the water suction pipe 506 is inclined upwards, so that the probability of water leakage can be reduced, the limiting plug plate 602 can be reset after being used for a period of time, the limiting of the feeding box 5 is released, then the feeding box 5 is taken down in a downward pulling mode, which is simple and convenient, reduces the dismounting difficulty, and is easy to dismount and clean the feeding box 5.

[0034] The embodiment of the utility model discloses the better embodiment, but is not limited to this, the ordinary skill of the art, the spirit of the utility model is appreciated to the above-mentioned embodiment, and different extension and change are made, but as long as not departing from the spirit of the utility model, all are within the protection scope of the utility model.

Claims

1. An automated feeding and watering device for laboratory animals, characterized in that, Includes a feeding box (1), on one side of the feeding box (1) are a feeding device (2) and a water supply device (3) located above the feeding box (1), and the outlets of the feeding device (2) and the water supply device (3) are located inside the feeding box (1), and a feeding box (5) is fixedly installed at the bottom of the feeding box (1). The feeding box (5) includes a rectangular strip (501). The top of the rectangular strip (501) is provided with a feed trough (502) and a water trough (503) that are both arc-shaped. An extension plate (504) for shielding is fixedly provided on the top of the rectangular strip (501). A feeding trough (505) is opened on the side wall of the extension plate (504) near the feed trough (502). A water suction pipe (506) for absorbing water is fixedly installed on the side wall of the extension plate (504) near the water trough (503). The bottom of the feeding box (1) is provided with a slot (102) corresponding to the position of the water suction pipe (506), and a fastener (6) that fits against the bottom of the rectangular strip (501) is fixedly installed on the bottom of the feeding box (1).

2. The automated feeding and drinking device for laboratory animals according to claim 1, characterized in that, The fixing component (6) includes a fixing block (601) fixed to the bottom of the feeding box (1). A limiting plate (602) is movably inserted in the middle of the fixing block (601). A limiting plate (603) that can fit against the side of the fixing block (601) is fixed on one side of the limiting plate (602). A resistance strip (606) for limiting is movably inserted on the other side of the limiting plate (602). The resistance strip (606) is fixedly connected to the bottom of the feeding box (1).

3. The automated feeding and watering device for laboratory animals according to claim 2, characterized in that, The limiting plate (603) is fixedly provided with an elastic arc-shaped locking strip (604) on the side near the bottom of the fixing block (601), and the bottom of the fixing block (601) is provided with a locking groove (605) that engages with the arc-shaped locking strip (604).

4. The automated feeding and drinking device for laboratory animals according to claim 1, characterized in that, The inside of the feeding box (1) is fixedly provided with a partition (4) that fits against the side of the rectangular bar (501). The side wall of the partition (4) is provided with a feeding window (401) and a slot (402) corresponding to the positions of the feeding trough (505) and the water suction pipe (506).

5. The automated feeding and drinking device for laboratory animals according to claim 4, characterized in that, Two L-shaped plates (403) are fixedly provided on one side of the partition (4) near the feeding box (5), and a baffle (404) that fits against the top of the feeding box (5) is movably installed between the L-shaped plate (403) and the partition (4).

6. The automated feeding and drinking device for laboratory animals according to claim 5, characterized in that, The L-shaped plate (403) has a vertically opening movable groove (405) on its plate wall, and the side wall of the baffle (404) is fixedly provided with a limiting block (406) that is slidably connected to the movable groove (405).

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