Patent ID: 8651050
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An automatic animal retrieving platform assembly for automatically retrieving and at least partly confining a domestic animal from a stall to effect a job function to said animal while at least partly confined on said animal retrieving platform, said platform assembly being automatically displaced by platform displacing motorized means and platform guide means and arrested to a location behind said stall, said platform assembly having animal confining means to receive at least a rear portion of the domestic animal, an opening associated with said animal confining means, extendible animal retrieving means secured to said animal retrieving platform and dimensioned to be extended in relation to the domestic animal occupying a stall with said opening facing a rear open end of said stall and said rear portion of the domestic animal, said extendible animal retrieving means confining and contacting a body portion of said domestic animal while permitting self-motion of said animal, said extendible animal retrieving means applying a retrieving force on said domestic animal to cause said domestic animal to slowly back-up into said opening and be at least partly confined by said animal confining means, said animal retrieving platform remaining arrested behind said stall until said job function is completed on said animal retrieving platform and said animal has returned to said stall.