US 12,402,613 B2
Installation for producing and collecting newly-hatched larvae
Bastien Oggeri, Paris (FR); Audrey Schuller, Nogent-sur-Marne (FR); Antonin Tixier, Nanterre (FR); and Antoine De Vos, Paris (FR)
Assigned to Innovafeed, Nesle (FR)
Appl. No. 18/560,275
Filed by Innovafeed, Nesle (FR)
PCT Filed May 9, 2022, PCT No. PCT/FR2022/050881
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 10, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/238646, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 17, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2104933 (FR), filed on May 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0237626 A1, Jul. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. A01K 67/36 (2025.01); A01K 67/362 (2025.01)
CPC A01K 67/36 (2025.01) [A01K 67/362 (2025.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rearing installation for producing and collecting newly-hatched larvae, comprising a collection of cages equipped with at least one collector of eggs laid by insects in the cages, and a transfer line for transferring the newly-hatched larvae newly hatched from the eggs from each of the collectors to a conveyor, a collection of modules grouping together a plurality of egg collectors, the modules being open at bottoms of the modules;
wherein the modules are mobile between a point of loading with the collectors removed from the cages and the transfer line; and
wherein the transfer line is open, with no casing at a top of the transfer line, in order to receive the modules at the top, and at a bottom, the transfer line has a guide system receptacle with divergent walls configured to group the larvae under gravity while minimizing lateral dispersion, which at its top has a width tailored to a cross section of the modules and at its bottom has an opening tailored to the dimensions of a conveyor, the receptacle being configured to group together the newly-hatched larvae falling under the effect of gravity from the collectors onto the upper surface of the conveyor.