Automatic Hatchery Tray Dumper

摘要

This invention relates to automatic handling equipment for the chicken layer industry. An apparatus for automatically dumping a hatchery tray is disclosed. The apparatus consists of a lifting platform suitably fitted with a tray sensing limit switch to control a double acting air cylinder which lifts the hatchery tray on the platform up and through a 100 degrees arc past vertical onto the open top of a hopper which receives the waste from the tray. Initial spring loaded starting and stopping devices are included as well as kick-off-arms to remove the hatchery tray from the hopper after dumping.