Patent ID: 11910779
Assignee: DATAMARS SA
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. An animal marking and treatment apparatus, comprising:
an animal treatment apparatus to apply an animal treatment to a surface or subcutaneous layer at a treatment location of an animal via an applicator at an operative end, and
a marking portion, attached to the animal treatment apparatus, and located at the operative end;
the marking portion is an absorbent pad containing a marking medium, held and presented within a cassette, and the cassette has a mounting portion, at an opposing end to that holding the absorbent pad, to cooperate with a mount on the operative end of the animal treatment apparatus;
the cassette further being removably attachable to the animal treatment apparatus, and the cassette includes a removably replaceable cover for the absorbent pad to prevent the absorbent pad from drying out, wherein the removably replaceable cover has a proximal end and a distal end, the removably replaceable cover further having a hollow center which extends from the proximal end to and through the distal end;
the cassette when mounted to the operative end forms at least in part a guard over the applicator at the operative end;
wherein the marking portion has a hollow center corresponding at least in part with the hollow center of the removably replaceable cover and is configured to leave a mark, the animal treatment apparatus being positioned within the marking portion hollow center and spaced apart from the absorbent pad containing the marking medium such that it is not in contact with the absorbent pad containing the marking medium;
such that when the animal receives the treatment, no part of the animal treatment apparatus makes contact with the absorbent pad containing the marking medium, the marking portion marks the treatment location by stamping at the same time, the animal treatment being applied through the marking portion hollow center, and the mark surrounds, at a distance away from, the treatment location where the treatment was applied.