Patent ID: 6263762
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A process for marking animals, comprising the steps of:writing with a write head having at least one needle pipe containing movable needles with the needle pipe capable of being moved via a table motor driven in two horizontal directions, so that an opening of the needle pipe is moved over a predetermined marking field on the animal's skin for writing thereon;program-controlling the movable needles for vibrating vertically at predetermined points within the predetermined marking field, depending on the characters to be tattooed, so that needle tips vibrate out of the opening of the needle pipe and penetrate into the animal's skin down to a particular depth; and,pumping tattooing liquid downwardly through the needle pipe as the needle pipe is moved in at least one of its two directions of movement, so that needles are forcibly and permanently surrounded by the tattooing liquid.