Patent ID: 7810454
Filing Date: 2010-10-12
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. An animal-rearing installation, comprising; an animal standing zone; flushing means for violently flushing a cleaning fluid into said zone in order to wash this zone, said flushing means being positioned upstream of said standing zone, and, situated at the other end from said flushing means relative to said zone; a channel for collecting the mixture formed by said cleaning fluid and the wastes flushed by this fluid, in which said flushing means include at least one bucket mounted so as to be movable between a filling position and a flushing position; said bucket including a bottom and two inclined walls extending from the bottom, a first one of said walls has a surface area greater than a second one of said walls, the asymmetric shape of this bucket being such that, when its level of filling with a cleaning fluid has reached a predetermined threshold, the center of gravity of this bucket thus filled is gradually moved to a pivoting point such that this bucket tips from said filling position to said flushing position in which said first one of said walls is placed in fluid communication with said zone, so as to violently flush said fluid into said zone in the direction of said first one of said walls; said bucket comprising a trough attached to an outside upper portion of the second one of said walls arranged so that, when the level of filling with said cleaning fluid has reached a predetermined threshold, the center of gravity of the assembly formed by said substantially empty bucket and said trough thus filled moves to a point such that said bucket tips from said flushing position to said filling position, so as to refill with said cleaning fluid; said trough being significantly smaller than said bucket.