Patent ID: 11903364
Assignee: ICM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A penning system for an area along an elongate barrier and over a floor, the system comprising:
movable-barriers;
partitions which carry the movable-barriers; and
partition-mountings which mount the partitions to swing about the partition-mountings;
wherein the partitions and the movable-barriers are movable:
from a deployed configuration,
in which the partitions are spaced along the elongate barrier, extend transversely to the elongate barrier, and extend outwardly from the partition-mountings and the elongate-barrier to partition the area into spaces comprising a respective space between each adjacent two of the partitions, and
the movable-barriers enclose the spaces to define pens for penning animals, each of the pens being defined by the elongate-barrier, two of the partitions and one of the movable-barriers;

to a collapsed configuration wherein the partitions and movable-barriers are collapsed for cleaning the floor; and

the partition-mountings cantilever the partitions to hold the partitions and the movable-barriers clear of bedding material and debris on the floor such that the partitions and movable-barriers are supported only by the partition-mountings.