Meat Duck Raising House Net Tensioning for Easier Cleaning

Solution Overview

Problem

The laid raising net in meat-type duck raising houses is prone to loosening, making it difficult to clean and leading to bacterial infections due to residual foreign matters.

Innovation Solution

A welfare-oriented raising house with a U-shaped support frame, cleaning and storing mechanism, traction mechanism, zigzag blocking mechanisms, and tensioning vibration mechanisms to ensure the raising net is tensioned and cleaned effectively.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the raising net is laid loosely to facilitate cleaning access, then cleaning ease is improved, but the net becomes under-tensioned and foreign matters remain on the net

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecleaning easeVSAvoidnet tension stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The raising net is divided into multiple sections that can be independently tensioned and cleaned. The net is supported by multiple support frames arranged in the length direction, allowing each section to be properly tensioned while maintaining overall structural integrity and enabling systematic cleaning operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The raising net is pre-tensioned using the tensioning mechanism before cleaning operations. This preliminary tensioning ensures the net maintains its shape and tightness during cleaning, preventing foreign matters from remaining on the net while still allowing access for cleaning operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the raising net is tightly tensioned to prevent loosening, then net stability is improved, but cleaning access becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenet tension stabilityVSAvoidcleaning ease

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The raising net is divided into multiple sections that can be independently tensioned and cleaned. The net is supported by multiple support frames arranged in the length direction, allowing each section to be properly tensioned while maintaining overall structural integrity and enabling systematic cleaning operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The raising net is pre-tensioned using the tensioning mechanism before cleaning operations. This preliminary tensioning ensures the net maintains its shape and tightness during cleaning, preventing foreign matters from remaining on the net while still allowing access for cleaning operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Object-affected harmful factors

If foreign matters are removed from the raising net to prevent bacterial infections, then duck health is improved, but the net requires frequent cleaning increasing labor

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebacterial infection preventionVSAvoidcleaning time

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The raising net is designed with features that facilitate self-cleaning. The tensioning mechanism and support structure maintain the net in a state that allows natural cleaning through duck movement and environmental factors, reducing the need for frequent manual cleaning operations while still preventing bacterial infections.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The raising net is pre-tensioned using the tensioning mechanism before cleaning operations. This preliminary tensioning ensures the net maintains its shape and tightness during cleaning, preventing foreign matters from remaining on the net while still allowing access for cleaning operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12382934B2Welfare-oriented raising house for meat-type ducks

Publication Date: 2025.08.12 ANHUI AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

AI summary

A welfare-oriented raising house for meat-type ducks, including a raising house, is provided. The raising house is internally provided with a support frame which is of a U-shaped structure and arranged in a length direction of the raising house, a raising net arranged at a top of the support frame, a cleaning and storing mechanism arranged at one end of the support frame for cleaning and storing the raising net, a traction mechanism arranged at the other end of the support frame for the traction of the raising net, blocking mechanisms which are of a zigzag structure and arranged at both sides of the support frame, and tensioning vibration mechanisms arranged at bottoms of the blocking mechanisms and fixedly connected to a side edge of the support frame.