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Record 1 2013-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Housing Facilities
DEF

Livestock floor system with long, parallel slots to pass manure and urine, used to eliminate need for bedding.

OBS

Slotted floor confined housing barn : étable avec plancher en caillebotis pour bovins en stabulation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logement des animaux d'élevage
DEF

Plancher destiné aux animaux et comportant de longues fentes parallèles pour le passage des excréments, éliminant ainsi l'utilisation de litière.

OBS

par exemple caillebotis en béton (bâtiments d'élevage)

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-12-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Housing Facilities
DEF

Rectangular slotted floor unit consisting of two or more slats, interconnected for load-sharing, ease of fabrication and handling.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Logement des animaux d'élevage
DEF

Élément rectangulaire d'un plancher à lattes comportant au moins deux lattes reliées pour supporter les charges et pour faciliter la fabrication et la manutention.

Spanish

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Record 3 1986-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Transportation Equipment (General)
  • Freight Service (Rail Transport)
DEF

Steel plate drilled to permit nailing to car posts or floor, and slotted to facilitate the threading and wrapping with steel straps.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipements de transport
  • Trafic marchandises (Transport par rail)
DEF

Plaque d'acier perforée afin qu'on puisse la clouer aux montants ou au plancher d'un wagon et pourvue d'une fente pour permettre l'enroulement des feuillards d'acier.

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Buildings
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Biochemistry
OBS

The oxidation ditch in northern climates is an indoor continuous concrete channel, usually shaped like a racetrack and located beneath the slotted floor sections of the pens. Most ditches are operated on a continuous flow basis where the ditch is kept full to the level of an overflow sluice gate. An aeration device(or devices) located within the central one third of the straight section of the ditch, adds oxygen from the air and mixes the liquid, called mixed liquor, passes over the sluice gate into a storage structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Constructions rurales
  • Élevage des animaux
  • Biochimie
OBS

[...] le fossé d'oxydation consiste en une rigole intérieure continue en béton habituellement en forme de champ de courses, située en dessous des planchers à claire-voie de la porcherie. Dans la majorité des installations l'écoulement est continu; les fossés sont en permanence remplis jusqu'au niveau d'une vanne de débordement. Un ou des appareils d'aération situés dans le tiers central de la section droite du fossé ajoutent l'oxygène de l'air et mélangent le liquide, appelé liqueur mélangée, en le faisant circuler dans le fossé.

Spanish

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