Zoetis Services LLC

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Egg-chick Automated Technologies

Visio Nerf

Visio Nerf S.a.

Couthouis, Daniel

Soury, Jean-pierre

Robert, Pierre

Bovis, Pierre

Pierre Robert

Laurent Queveau

Franck Robert

Olivier Somville

Jean-Pierre Soury

Pierre Bovis

Daniel Couthouis

Unit for sorting parts moving along a conveyor belt comprising a transfer device () which comprises a roller () which is rotatably movable above the belt and a plurality of gripping tools () at the periphery of the roller which are each capable of selectively removing a part from the belt when the tools are brought into a removal position, each tool comprising a suction cup () attached to a tubular support sleeve () which is capable of creating a connection between the suction cup and an internal chamber () of the roller, said connection being kept at a negative pressure relative to the surrounding air, all of the suction cups which are brought into the removal position being depressurized, each sleeve being mounted so as to be translatably movable along the axis thereof through a wall () of the roller, an actuator () being designed to selectively control, in the removal position, the movement of the sleeve so that the suction cup engages with the part to be removed.

Unit for sorting moving parts

The invention relates to a so-called stabilization method, consisting of completing the filling of traveling egg trays. In each of the successive trays, eggs taken from an available egg reservoir are deposited in empty locations. This reservoir is made up of egg receiving cells that are movable along rows of cells in series. Depending on a filling state of the tray being treated identifying the distribution of the empty locations relative to the full locations, the reservoir is automatically configured in a configuration of egg-bearing cells complementary to said filling state of the tray in progress, so as to next transfer eggs between the reservoir and the tray in progress by correspondence between empty locations and full locations in the tray and the presence or absence of an egg-bearing cell in the reservoir.

Method and facility for filling traveling egg trays

The invention relates to a so-called stabilization method, consisting of completing the filling of traveling egg trays (). In each of the successive trays, eggs taken from an available egg reservoir () are deposited in empty locations. This reservoir is made up of egg receiving cells that are movable along rows of cells in series. Depending on a filling state of the tray being treated identifying the distribution of the empty locations relative to the full locations, the reservoir is automatically configured in a configuration of egg-bearing cells complementary to said filling state of the tray in progress, so as to next transfer eggs between the reservoir and the tray in progress by correspondence between empty locations and full locations in the tray and the presence or absence of an egg-bearing cell in the reservoir.

A part-processing machine having, in series, consecutive parts on a belt () moving same along a main conveying line. Selectively identified non-compliant parts are removed from the conveying line, into a transfer device () by pickup tools () supported on the periphery of a rotating drum () mounted transversely to the conveying line and arranged to rotate about itself so as to pass over the belt, enabling the non-compliant parts to be picked up by the pickup tools and released once the parts have been transported away from the conveying line. The pickup tools have pneumatic gripping heads, more particularly for example suction cups. The pneumatic gripping heads are depressurized relative to the surrounding air by a low-pressure chamber provided inside the drum, to which each head is connected by a tube inside a tool support arm.

Device for transferring moving parts

The invention relates to a system applicable to an installation for candling eggs, to determine the presence of fertilized eggs in the cells of the egg crate grid moving on a conveyor. Row by row, the analyzing device synchronously monitors the light emission on the eggs of the row and detection of the attenuated light of emerging beams. The monitoring includes at least two close cycles of light emission. During the first cycle, which is of short duration to avoid causing glare of the detectors of the detecting device, the coordinates of possible empty cells in a row are determined and stored. During the second cycle, which is of longer duration, the coordinates of fertilized eggs of the row are determined and stored. The egg candling installation advantageously also marks the eggs, depending in particular on whether they are fertilized or not.

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