Single-cage rearing cage for mice with metabolic diseases

Abstract

The utility model relates to the technical field of rearing cages, in particular to a single-cage rearing cage for mice suffering from metabolic diseases. According to the technical scheme, the mouse cage comprises a cage body used for feeding mice, and a cage door is arranged on one side of the upper surface of the cage body in a drawing mode; the supporting box is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the cage body, a small-hole-diameter collecting disc and a urine collecting box are fixedly arranged in the supporting box, the small-hole-diameter collecting disc is located over the urine collecting box, and a connecting pipe is arranged at the lower end of the urine collecting box in a communicating mode; and the cleaning assembly is arranged in the supporting box and is used for cleaning the mouse excrement collected on the small-aperture collecting disc. According to the device, excrement and urine of bred mice can be separated and collected, odor generated by mixing of the excrement and the urine can be reduced, breeding of bacteria and peculiar smells is avoided, the breeding environment is kept clean and sanitary, the excrement and the urine of the mice can be conveniently and respectively sampled and detected, and the detection efficiency is improved.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model relates to a feeding cage technical field especially, relates to a metabolic disease mouse single cage feeding cage. BACKGROUND

[0002] Metabolic disease mouse refers to the disease caused by abnormal metabolism of mouse, mainly including diabetes, gout, obesity, hyperlipidemia and so on, the occurrence of these diseases is related to heredity, environment, life style and various factors, these mice are usually used to study the pathogenesis, pathophysiological process and treatment method of human metabolic disease. The existing metabolic disease mouse feeding cage, by pulling setting collecting box at the bottom of the feeding cage, the feces and urine of the feeding mouse are collected together, which leads to the feces and urine of the mouse mixed together, it is difficult to clean thoroughly, and it is easy to breed bacteria and peculiar smell, affecting the health of the mouse and the accuracy of the experimental results, and the mixed feces and urine also affect the observation of the behavior and physiological state of the mouse, which brings inconvenience to the work of the experimenter. Therefore, the utility model provides a metabolic disease mouse single cage feeding cage. UTILITY MODEL CONTENTS

[0003] The utility model aims at the problems in the background art, and provides a metabolic disease mouse single cage feeding cage.

[0004] The utility model discloses a technical scheme: a metabolic disease mouse single cage feeding cage, which comprises a cage body for feeding mice, a cage door is pullingly arranged on one side of the upper surface of the cage body, a support box is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the cage body, a small-aperture collecting disc and a urine collecting box are fixedly arranged in the support box, the small-aperture collecting disc is located directly above the urine collecting box, a connecting pipe is communicatively arranged at the lower end of the urine collecting box, and a cleaning assembly for cleaning the mouse feces collected on the small-aperture collecting disc is arranged in the support box.

[0005] Optionally, the cleaning assembly comprises two threaded rods rotatably arranged in the support box, one end of each threaded rod penetrates through the support box and is connected with a first transmission wheel, a threaded sleeve plate is threadedly sleeved between the threaded rods, a cleaning sleeve plate is fixedly arranged at the upper end of the threaded sleeve plate, and the cleaning sleeve plate is movably sleeved with the small-aperture collecting disc.

[0006] Optionally, the cleaning assembly further comprises a motor fixedly installed on the outer wall of the support box, a second transmission wheel is fixedly arranged at the output end of the motor, and a transmission belt for connection is arranged between the second transmission wheel and the first transmission wheel.

[0007] Optionally, a discharge port is formed in one side of the support box, a guide frame is fixedly arranged on the outer wall of the support box and located at the discharge port, and a feces collecting box for collecting mouse feces is slidably and clippably arranged on the guide frame.

[0008] Optionally, the lower end of the connecting tube is threadedly connected to a collection bottle for collecting mouse urine.

[0009] Optionally, a water bottle is provided through the upper surface of the cage.

[0010] Optionally, a feed box is provided through the upper surface of the cage.

[0011] Optionally, the support box has an opening on one side for easy access to the collection bottle.

[0012] In summary, this application includes at least one of the following beneficial technical effects:

[0013] This invention separates and collects the feces and urine of the raised mice by setting a support box at the bottom of the cage and setting a small-diameter collection tray and urine collection box inside the support box. This reduces the odor produced by the mixing of feces and urine, avoids the growth of bacteria and odors, maintains the cleanliness and hygiene of the breeding environment, and facilitates the separate sampling and testing of the feces and urine of the mice, thus improving the efficiency of the testing.

[0014] Furthermore, the output end of the motor drives the second transmission wheel to rotate. The second transmission wheel drives the threaded rod through the transmission belt and the first transmission wheel to drive the cleaning sleeve on the threaded sleeve plate to move horizontally on the small-diameter collection plate. This can push and clean the mouse feces collected on the small-diameter collection plate into the feces collection box, thereby facilitating centralized collection and treatment and improving cleaning efficiency. Attached Figure Description

[0015] Figure 1 A schematic diagram of a single-cage rearing cage for mice with metabolic diseases is provided.

[0016] Figure 2 for Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the internal cross-sectional structure;

[0017] Figure 3 for Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the internal structure of the middle support box;

[0018] Figure 4 for Figure 3 A schematic diagram of the structure of the cleanup component.

[0019] Figure label:

[0020] 1. Cage body; 2. Cage door; 3. Support box; 4. Small-diameter collection tray; 5. Urine collection box; 6. Connecting pipe;

[0021] 7, cleaning assembly; 71, threaded rod; 72, first transmission wheel; 73, threaded sleeve plate; 74, cleaning sleeve plate; 75, motor; 76, second transmission wheel; 77, transmission belt;

[0022] 8, discharge port; 9, guide frame; 10, excrement collecting box; 11, collecting bottle; 12, water feeding bottle; 13, feed box; 14, taking and placing port. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0023] The technical solutions of the present application will be described clearly and completely below in conjunction with the drawings. Obviously, the described embodiments are only some of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments of the present application.

[0024] The components of the embodiments of the present application generally described and shown in the drawings herein can be arranged and designed in various different configurations. Therefore, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application provided in the drawings is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed present application, but only represents selected embodiments of the present application.

[0025] Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those of ordinary skill in the art without making creative efforts belong to the scope of protection of the present application.

[0026] In the description of the present application, it should be noted that the orientations or positional relationships indicated by the terms "center", "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "vertical", "horizontal", "inner", "outer", etc. are based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for the convenience of describing the present application and simplifying the description, and are not intended to indicate or imply that the devices or elements referred to must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and therefore cannot be understood as limiting the present application. In addition, the terms "first", "second", "third" are only for the purpose of description, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying relative importance.

[0027] In the description of the present application, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified and limited, the terms "mounting", "connection", "connecting" should be understood broadly, for example, it can be fixed connection, or detachable connection, or integrally connected; it can be mechanical connection, or electrical connection; it can be directly connected, or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, or the communication inside two elements. For those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood according to the specific circumstances.

[0028] Embodiment:

[0029] As Figures 1 to 3As shown, the utility model provides a kind of metabolic disease mouse single-cage feeding cage, including: the cage body 1 for feeding mouse, and the side and bottom of cage body 1 are the middle aperture intercepting net arrangement, it is convenient to observe mouse and faeces urine drop, the upper surface one side of cage body 1 is pulled and is provided with cage door 2, it is convenient to take mouse and place;Supporting box 3 is fixedly arranged at the bottom of cage body 1, small aperture collecting tray 4 and urine collection box 5 are fixedly arranged in the inside of supporting box 3, and small aperture collecting tray 4 is located directly above urine collection box 5, it is convenient to classify and collect mouse's faeces and urine, and the lower end of urine collection box 5 is connected with connecting pipe 6, it is convenient to discharge urine collected in urine collection box 5;Cleaning assembly 7 for cleaning mouse faeces collected on small aperture collecting tray 4 is arranged in the inside of supporting box 3, it is convenient to clean mouse faeces.

[0030] As Figure 2 And Figure 4 As shown, cleaning assembly 7 includes two screw rods 71 rotationally arranged in the inside of supporting box 3, and screw rod 71 is symmetrically arranged, one end of screw rod 71 penetrates supporting box 3 and is extended and connected with first transmission wheel 72, it is convenient to drive screw rod 71 to rotate, screw rod 71 is threadedly sleeved with screw sleeve plate 73, the upper end of screw sleeve plate 73 is fixedly provided with cleaning sleeve plate 74, and cleaning sleeve plate 74 is movably sleeved with small aperture collecting tray 4, so as to drive cleaning sleeve plate 74 to clean mouse faeces dropped on small aperture collecting tray 4.

[0031] Further, cleaning assembly 7 further includes motor 75 fixedly installed on the outer wall of supporting box 3, the output end of motor 75 is fixedly provided with second transmission wheel 76, and transmission belt 77 for linkage is arranged between second transmission wheel 76 and first transmission wheel 72, so as to drive screw rod 71 to drive cleaning sleeve plate 74 to move horizontally to clean faeces dropped on small aperture collecting tray 4, thereby improving the efficiency of faeces cleaning.

[0032] As Figures 1 to 3 As shown, one side of supporting box 3 is provided with discharge port 8, the outer wall of supporting box 3 is fixedly provided with guide frame 9, and guide frame 9 is located at discharge port 8, and faeces collection box 10 for collecting mouse faeces is slidably connected to guide frame 9, so as to centrally collect and process mouse faeces.

[0033] Secondly, the lower end of connecting pipe 6 is threadedly connected with collection bottle 11 for collecting mouse urine, so as to centrally collect and process mouse mucus.

[0034] Further, the upper surface of cage body 1 is provided with water feeding bottle 12, so as to add drinking water for mouse.

[0035] In addition, the upper surface of the cage 1 is provided with a feed box 13, and the feed box 13 comprises a feed storage container, a weighing sensor, a control system, a feed feeding mechanism and a power supply, and can weigh the feeding feed.

[0036] Finally, the support box 3 is provided with a taking and placing opening 14 for taking and placing the collecting bottle 11, so that the full collecting bottle 11 can be cleaned.

[0037] The working principle of the embodiment is that when the mouse is fed, the cage door 2 is pulled upward to move on the cage 1, the mouse is placed in the cage 1, and the cage door 2 is pushed to the original position. And by placing water in the water bottle 12 and placing feed in the feed box 13, the mouse is fed.

[0038] When the mouse produces feces and urine, the feces of the mouse falls through the bottom of the cage 1 to the small aperture collecting disc 4 for collection. The urine of the mouse falls through the cage 1 and the small aperture collecting disc 4 to the urine collecting box 5, and is then guided to the collecting bottle 11 through the connecting pipe 6 at the bottom of the urine collecting box 5 for centralized collection.

[0039] When the feces is cleaned, the motor 75 is started, the output end of the motor 75 drives the second transmission wheel 76 to rotate, the second transmission wheel 76 drives the first transmission wheel 72 to rotate through the transmission belt 77, the first transmission wheel 72 drives the threaded rod 71 to rotate between the support boxes 3, the threaded rod 71 is connected with the threaded sleeve plate 73 in a threaded manner, drives the threaded sleeve plate 73 to move horizontally, the threaded sleeve plate 73 drives the cleaning sleeve plate 74 to slide horizontally on the small aperture collecting disc 4, and the feces falling on the small aperture collecting disc 4 is pushed to the feces collecting box 10 through the discharge port 8 for centralized collection. After the feces is centralized and collected in the feces collecting box 10, the feces collecting box 10 is pulled upward to slide on the guide frame 9, and the feces collecting box 10 is taken out, so that the feces collected in the feces collecting box 10 is cleaned, the feces and urine of the fed mouse can be collected separately, the smell generated by the mixture of feces and urine can be reduced, the breeding of bacteria and peculiar smell can be avoided, the cleanliness and hygiene of the breeding environment can be maintained, and the feces and urine of the mouse can be sampled and detected respectively, and the detection efficiency is improved.

[0040] The above specific embodiments are only several optional embodiments of the utility model, and based on the technical scheme of the utility model and the related inspiration of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can make various alternative improvements and combinations on the above specific embodiments.

Claims

1. A metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage, characterized by, Include: The cage (1) for feeding mice, the upper surface of the cage (1) is provided with cage door (2) on one side; The support box (3) is fixedly arranged at the bottom of the cage (1), the inside of the support box (3) is fixedly provided with small aperture collection tray (4) and urine collection box (5), and the small aperture collection tray (4) is located directly above the urine collection box (5), and the lower end of the urine collection box (5) is communicated with the connecting pipe (6); The cleaning assembly (7) is arranged in the support box (3) for cleaning the mouse feces collected on the small aperture collection tray (4).

2. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 1, wherein, The cleaning assembly (7) includes two threaded rods (71) rotatably arranged in the support box (3), one end of the threaded rod (71) penetrates the support box (3) and is extended to be connected with the first transmission wheel (72), the threaded rod (71) is threadedly sleeved with the threaded sleeve plate (73), the upper end of the threaded sleeve plate (73) is fixedly provided with the cleaning sleeve plate (74), and the cleaning sleeve plate (74) is movably sleeved with the small aperture collection tray (4).

3. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 2, wherein, The cleaning assembly (7) further includes a motor (75) fixedly installed on the outer wall of the support box (3), the output end of the motor (75) is fixedly provided with a second transmission wheel (76), and the second transmission wheel (76) is provided with a transmission belt (77) for connection between the first transmission wheel (72).

4. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 1, wherein, The support box (3) is provided with a discharge port (8) on one side, the outer wall of the support box (3) is fixedly provided with a guide frame (9), and the guide frame (9) is located at the discharge port (8), and the guide frame (9) is slidably connected with the feces collection box (10) for collecting mouse feces.

5. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 1, wherein, The lower end of the connecting pipe (6) is threadedly connected with the collection bottle (11) for collecting mouse urine.

6. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 1, wherein, The upper surface of the cage (1) is provided with a water bottle (12).

7. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 1, wherein, The upper surface of the cage (1) is provided with a feed box (13).

8. The metabolic disease mouse single-housing cage according to claim 1, wherein, The side of the support box (3) is provided with a taking and placing opening (14) for taking and placing the collection bottle (11).

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