US4643354A
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Multi-layer poultry vaccinator
Assignee: CURTIS DYNA-FOG Ltd
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Filing: 1985-01-23
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Granted: 1987-02-17
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Expires: 2005-01-23
Abstract
Abstract A poultry vaccinator for use in brooding houses having multiple layered rows of cages for high volume vaccination. The vaccinator apparatus includes a plurality of atomizer nozzles disposed at multiple elevations on a collapsible stand pipe assembly. A single reservoir provides a common source for vaccination liquid for each of the atomizer nozzles. Calibration orifices located in the liquid lines to each of the atomizer nozzles provide pressure compensation for elevational differences of the nozzles. Thereby producing a uniform particle size aerosol out of the nozzles regardless of nozzle elevation.
Inventors
- 👤 John H. Stowe
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 20:20
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61D; A61D1/00; A61D1/02; A61D1/025; B; B05; B05B; B05B7/00; B05B7/24
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 2
Claim 1
Independent Claim
223 words
A method of innoculating chickens housed in multiple rows of vertically stacked cages, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a hand-propelled wheeled poultry vaccinator adapted for vaccination of poultry in multi-layer cages, said poultry vaccinator having a plurality of atomizing spray nozzles disposed at multiple elevations, each of said nozzles having an air intake chamber and a liquid intake chamber, a reservoir for containing, under elevated pressure, a common source of liquid vaccination serum in flow communication with each of said nozzles, a means for supplying pressurized liquid from said reservoir to the liquid intake chamber of each of said nozzles and for supplying pressurized air to the air intake chamber of each of said nozzles, and a means for regulating an atomized spray out of each of said nozzles so that the particles in said atomized spray have a substantially uniform particle size despite the elevational differences between said nozzles; (b) adjusting the height of said atomizing spray nozzles to correspond to the height of each of the rows of vertically stacked cages; and (c) pushing the poultry vaccinator along said rows of vertically stacked cages while spraying the poultry in the cages with a uniform particle size atomizing spray of the liquid vaccination serum generated from said atomizing spray nozzles at elevations corresponding to the height of the vertically stacked cages.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
223 words
A method of innoculating chickens housed in multiple rows of vertically stacked cages, comprising the steps of: (a) providing a hand-propelled wheeled poultry vaccinator adapted for vaccination of poultry in multi-layer cages, said poultry vaccinator having a plurality of atomizing spray nozzles disposed at multiple elevations, each of said nozzles having an air intake chamber and a liquid intake chamber, a reservoir for containing, under elevated pressure, a common source of liquid vaccination serum in flow communication with each of said nozzles, a means for supplying pressurized liquid from said reservoir to the liquid intake chamber of each of said nozzles and for supplying pressurized air to the air intake chamber of each of said nozzles, and a means for regulating an atomized spray out of each of said nozzles so that the particles in said atomized spray have a substantially uniform particle size despite the elevational differences between said nozzles; (b) adjusting the height of said atomizing spray nozzles to correspond to the height of each of the rows of vertically stacked cages; and (c) pushing the poultry vaccinator along said rows of vertically stacked cages while spraying the poultry in the cages with a uniform particle size atomizing spray of the liquid vaccination serum generated from said atomizing spray nozzles at elevations corresponding to the height of the vertically stacked cages.
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