49results about "Dividing poultry" patented technology

The present application belongs to the technical field of poultry slaughtering and processing, and particularly relates to a chicken and duck slitting system based on intelligent visual recognition, comprising: an image acquisition module; an image processing and recognition module; a slitting execution module; and a control module.In the technical solution, the image acquisition module acquires image information of chicken and duck carcasses at a slitting station, the image processing and recognition module receives the acquired image information, and a deep learning algorithm is used to identify key parts and contours of the chicken and duck, determine an optimal slitting path and position, and drive the slitting execution module to travel according to the preset optimal slitting path and position through the control module, so that the slitting execution module accurately performs chicken and duck slitting operations.The chicken and duck slitting system based on intelligent visual recognition in the technical solution improves the accuracy and efficiency of slitting, ensures the stability and consistency of product quality, reduces labor costs and labor intensity, and improves the production efficiency and market competitiveness of enterprises.

A poultry leg meat deboning device includes an ankle holding part (2) configured to hold an ankle of poultry leg meat, a leg meat measuring part configured to measure the poultry leg meat in a state in which a meat part of the poultry leg meat is peeled off, a separator (4) configured to sandwich a femur, a moving part configured to move the ankle holding part (2) and relatively move the separator (4) until an end portion of the femur on the side of a hip joint along the femur, a controller configured to determine movement amount of the separator (4) with respect to the femur by the moving part on the basis of the measurement result by the leg meat measuring part, and a round cutting edge cutter configured to cut off the meat part from the femur at the end portion of the femur.

The application discloses a kind of poultry meat food pretreatment processing technology, including scalding and removing integrated machine and poultry meat cutting machine, including the following processing steps: step one, quality and health inspection is carried out to fresh poultry meat, and the poultry meat that is determined to be safe and qualified is selected out;Step two, the selected poultry meat is placed in the scalding and removing integrated machine hot water tank for 1-3min, wherein the water temperature of hot water tank is 60-70 DEG C, and the root of feather on poultry meat is softened;Step three, poultry meat after hot water immersion is transferred to the roller room between the hot water tank of scalding and removing integrated machine, until the complete dehairing.The conveying unit between the scalding and removing integrated machine and the poultry meat cutting machine is improved and replaced in the application, which can adjust the posture direction of poultry, facilitate the subsequent processing of poultry after scalding and dehairing, has simple structure, low manufacturing cost, improves the processing efficiency of poultry pretreatment, and reduces the processing cost.

The invention relates to a device (10) for processing poultry rear halves (14) comprising at least two legs (11, 12) and a central piece (13) connecting the two legs (11, 12). During processing, the poultry rear halves are transported along multiple processing stations before the legs (11, 12) are completely separated from the central piece (13). Before the poultry rear halves (14) are turned, tendons located in a joint gap between joint connections of the legs (11, 12) and joint sockets of the central piece (13) have to be separated by a corresponding means. The device (10) is characterized in that the processing stations additionally comprise means for cutting tendons located at and / or within the joints, wherein the means comprises at least one separating blade pair (21) and a joint spreader (22). The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

A holding element positions back parts or parts thereof of poultry carcasses having a neck side, a hip side, a body exterior side, and a body interior side, wherein the back part has a spinal column or parts thereof and a rib structure having at least vertebral rib pairs or parts thereof. The back part has a region, on the exterior side of the body relative to the rib structure, that has back-flesh. The holding element includes a holding device with at least one controllable clamping element. The at least one clamping element is configured and adapted to releasably fix the back part at least in some regions on the holding device by non-positive and / or positive locking engagement with the body interior side.

The invention relates to a device (10) for processing poultry rear halves (14) comprising at least two legs (11, 12) and a central piece (13) connecting the two legs (11, 12). During processing, the poultry rear halves are transported along multiple processing stations before the legs (11, 12) are completely separated from the central piece (13). Before separation, however, the skin located on the rear of the central piece (13) and the membrane lying underneath have to be cut with a corresponding means. The device (10) is characterized in that the means for rear-side cutting of the skin and the membrane lying between the skin and the meat comprises at least two separate processing tools (21, 22) arranged one behind the other in the transport direction T, wherein the first processing tool (21) is arranged in the transport direction T of the poultry rear halves (14) along the transport path, which first processing tool is designed and configured for cutting the skin, and the second processing tool (22) is arranged at a distance behind the first processing tool in the transport direction T and is designed and configured for cutting the membrane removed from the skin. The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

The application discloses a potato chip and fried chicken forming and frying integrated forming device and relates to the technical field of food processing. The device specifically comprises an integrated base, a frying integrated groove arranged on the integrated base, a forming mechanism fixed on the integrated base, a boxing mechanism installed on the integrated base, a driving assembly installed on the integrated base, a frying box installed on the driving assembly and a limiting assembly symmetrically installed on the frying integrated groove. The forming mechanism is located above the front side of the frying integrated groove. The driving assembly is rotatably installed on the left side of the frying integrated groove. The boxing mechanism is installed on the right side of the frying integrated groove. The frying box is located between the frying integrated groove and the forming mechanism. The forming process and the frying process are integrated. Raw materials can be directly processed into finished fried food. Energy consumption is effectively reduced, and production efficiency is improved. Moreover, the forming mechanism and the frying mechanism are both automatic production processes, which ensure the quality of food production.

A poultry processing apparatus for processing a poultry carcass with attached wings. The apparatus includes a shackle conveyor including a set of shackles. Adjacent shackles receive respective wings of a poultry carcass in a wing-receiving opening of the shackle to support the poultry carcass for movement along a shackle path of travel. A first cutting module is positioned adjacent a section of the shackle conveyor, the first cutting module including a cutting head having spaced apart first and second cutting members and a translation mechanism moving the cutting head in two directions: a) moving the cutting head between a retracted position and an engaged position in a direction transverse to the shackle path of travel; and b) moving the cutting head in a direction along the shackle path of travel in synchronization with the conveyor over an engagement distance wherein the first and second cutting members engage the poultry carcass.

The invention relates to a device (10) for processing poultry rear halves (14) comprising at least two legs (11, 12) and a central piece (13) connecting the two legs (11, 12) and including remaining ribs, namely for separating the two legs (11, 12) from the central piece (13), comprising a frame (15), a transport conveyor (16), wherein the transport conveyor (16) comprises a rotationally driven conveyor element (17) with shackles (18) arranged thereon for receiving the legs (11, 12) of the poultry rear halves (14), at least one support conveyor (19) which is arranged below the transport conveyor (16) at a distance from same, which is mounted on the frame (15) and comprises a rotationally driven conveyor element (20), as well as multiple processing stations which are arranged along the transport path and can be operatively connected to the poultry rear halves (14) transported in the transport direction, at least for guiding and / or spreading the suspended poultry rear halves (14), for aligning the suspended poultry rear halves (14), for abdomen-side separating of skin and tissue in the transition region between the legs (11, 12) and the central piece (13), for abdomen-side separating of tendons and tissue around the joints, with which the legs (11, 12) are flexibly connected to the central piece (13), for turning the suspended poultry rear halves (14), for rear-side cutting of skin and membrane lying between the skin and the meat, as well as for complete separation of the legs (11, 12) from the central piece (13), characterized in that the processing station for abdomen-side separation of tendons and tissue in the transition region between the legs (11, 12) and the central piece (13) comprises a separation means (21) with four separation plates (22, 23, 24, 25) on both sides of the central piece (13), wherein two respective separation plates (22, 23; 24, 25) lying on opposite sides of the transport path form a separation plate pair (26, 27) and the distance between the two separation plates (22, 23) of the first separation plate pair (26) in the transport direction (T) from one another in the transverse direction to the transport direction (T) is greater than the distance between the two separation plates (24, 25) of the second separation plate pair, downstream in the transport direction (T). The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

The present application relates to meat product processing technical field, especially to a kind of broiler online grading and intelligent segmentation system based on machine vision, including online grading vision unit, segmentation feature extraction unit, multi-axis cutting execution unit, pressure sensing unit and optimization control unit, the surface image of broiler is obtained by vision unit and is graded online, then its multi-view profile is analyzed by feature extraction unit to calculate the density distribution index representing trunk structure characteristics;Optimization control unit integrates grading results and structure characteristics, plans initial cutting parameters and expected pressure interval;During cutting process, through real-time feedback of pressure sensor, sawing path and speed are dynamically adjusted, so that cutting force is maintained in the optimal interval.The present application realizes self-adaptive accurate segmentation to individual difference, effectively improves cutting quality and yield.

The invention relates to a device and method for filleting at poultry breast from a carcass. The device comprises a conveyor, a poultry carrier attached to said conveyor, a first drive system for driving the conveyor, an interrupting mechanism configured for temporarily interrupting the movement of the poultry carrier, a scraping section arranged along the conveyor comprising a movable scraping element, which is displaceable between an operational state, for locally separating a part of the poultry breast from the poultry carcass, and a non-operational state in which the scraping element is positioned at a distance from the poultry carrier, for allowing an unobstructed passage of a poultry carrier past said scraping section, wherein a side of the scraping element facing towards the transport path, comprises a dull or blunt side for scraping the part of the poultry breast from the of the poultry carcass.

This invention discloses a wing root processing device, including a machine tool and a pair of chain plate conveyor belts mounted on the machine tool. Storage slots are provided on both sides of the chain plate conveyor belts, and a cutting mechanism is installed above the chain plate conveyor belts. Several wing root clamping plate assemblies are fixedly arranged at intervals along the conveying direction on each chain plate conveyor belt. The cutting mechanism consists of a combined tool holder and a telescopic drive unit for driving the combined tool holder up and down. Limiting plates are fixedly installed on both sides of the combined tool holder. The telescopic drive unit is mounted on one side with a first fixed frame. The fixed frame has a mounting slot for placing the combined tool holder, and a limiting slot is formed through the side wall of the mounting slot. The limiting plate is movably installed within the limiting slot. The combined tool holder is equipped with a cutting blade for simultaneously cutting the chicken meat on both sides of the wing root's internal bone and a spring pressure plate for pressing down the small bone ends of the wing root. The cutting blade consists of two blades arranged opposite each other on both sides of the combined tool holder. This reduces the frequency of raw material transfer and prevents the cutting blades from shifting. It also features a dual-station storage slot.

The invention provides a chicken cutting machine. The chicken cutting machine comprises a supporting frame; the conveying platform is arranged on the supporting frame and used for conveying chicken to be treated in the preset direction; the auxiliary feeding mechanism is arranged at the rear end of the upper surface of the conveying platform and used for pressing the chicken and conveying the chicken to a cutting area in an auxiliary mode; the cutting device is arranged above the middle part of the conveying platform and is used for cutting the passing chicken in at least one direction; the shunting guide mechanism is arranged at the front end of the conveying platform and is used for guiding the cut chicken blocks to different paths; the collecting device is arranged below the front end of the conveying platform and is used for receiving and conveying the chicken pieces shunted by the shunting guide mechanism; the chicken cutting device has the advantages that chicken can be cut, the problems of material conveying sliding and cutting adhesion are solved, automatic flow dividing and collecting are achieved, and therefore production continuity and product consistency are improved.

This invention discloses a chicken breast separation device, including a conveying device connected to several fixed seats for vertically placing chicken breast covers. Each fixed seat is equipped with a clamping assembly for clamping the middle of the chicken breast cover. A lateral pressing mechanism for laterally pressing and unfolding the chicken breast is mounted on one side of the conveying device along the conveying direction. A set of grippers for gripping the connection between the two sides of the chicken breast cover and the upper end of the chicken breast, and a driving mechanism for tearing the chicken breast from top to bottom, are also provided on one side of the conveying device. The driving end of the driving mechanism is connected to a limiting rod to prevent the middle sides of the chicken breast cover from shaking. Both the grippers and the limiting rod are V-shaped. The closed ends of one set of grippers are fixedly connected to the two open ends of the limiting rod, and the closed ends of another set of grippers are fixedly connected to the two open ends of the limiting rod. A collection box and a feeding mechanism are provided below the conveying device. The device has a high degree of automation and advantages such as high chicken breast separation efficiency, low labor intensity, and good separation effect.

The invention relates to a device for processing pieces of meat, in particular pieces of poultry, comprising at least one conveyor comprising at least one meat carrier for transporting at least one piece of meat along a transport path, wherein at least one meat carrier comprises at least one carrying surface for carrying at least one piece of meat; at least one initial cutting module arranged along the transport path of the at least one conveyor, at least one primary cutting module arranged along the transport path of the at least one conveyor, at least one secondary cutting module arranged along the transport path of the at least one conveyor, and at least one orientation adjusting structure which is configured to displace at least part of at least one meat carrier such that the orientation of at least part of the at least one meat carrier is altered with respect to the at least one conveyor.

The invention relates to an apparatus (100) designed and configured for severing tendons connecting a humerus or parts thereof to a shoulder girdle and / or shoulder girdle muscles on poultry carcasses (250) from which the wings have been removed but which still have at least parts of a humerus and are transported along a transport path in a transport direction T, which apparatus is characterized by a framework (102), two severing units arranged on the framework (102), wherein each severing unit comprises a severing means designed and configured for severing in each case at least one of the tendons located on both sides of the poultry carcass (250), actuation means for actuating the severing means, and adjustment means by which at least parts of the severing units carrying the severing means are moved from a standby position to a severing position, lying in the transport path of the poultry carcasses (250), and back again.

The invention relates to a scraper and processing line for cleaning the neck of poultry. A scraper (1) for removing unwanted parts from the neck region of slaughtered poultry, in particular for removing the trachea and esophagus with crop from the neck region of slaughtered poultry, the scraper (1) comprising a mandrel (2) and forwardly directed protrusions (3, 4) arranged to operate in the neck region of the slaughtered poultry during use, wherein the forwardly directed protrusions (3, 4) form part of at least one plate (5, 6), wherein the at least one plate (5, 6) is movably mounted or mountable on the mandrel (2).

The machine operator holds the chicken carcass on the circular saw or the casting on the abrasive cut-off wheel. Significant risks to the hands are minimized by a controllable (approximately 10 ms) wheel stop mechanism, optically activated when a gloved finger enters the danger zone (optionally, a conductive glove trigger is used). An electromagnet releases a powerful spring mechanically linked to the opposing brake shoes, pressing them against either side of the brake disc. The brake disc and cut-off wheel share a shaft but are located in separate compartments. Further features include incident reporting via a network.

A leg meat separation device (1) includes an ankle holding part (2) configured to hold an ankle (A) of a poultry leg meat (M), a meat pressing part (3) configured to press a meat section (Mp) near the ankle (A), a meat insertion part (5) that is inserted between the meat section (Mp) pressed by the meat pressing part (3) and a tibia and that is configured to separate the meat section (Mp) from the tibia, and a meat cutting part (6) configured to cut near the ankle (A) of the meat section (Mp).

The present invention particularly relates to a blade assembly (10) configured and adapted to perform filleting cuts on a clamped and gutted fish (100), the blade assembly (10) comprising at least one cutting head (11) with at least one housing (12) having a blade unit (13) and a drive unit (14) configured and adapted to rotationally drive a blade shaft (16), the blade shaft (16) having a cutting blade (15) rotatably supported inside the housing (12), the cutting blade (15) being arranged on the blade shaft (16) at a free end (17) of the blade shaft (16) for co-rotation, the blade shaft (16) being configured to be axially movable relative to the housing (12) and configured to be separable from the drive unit (14) for the purpose of axially moving the blade shaft (16), such that the rotational movement of the blade shaft (16) can be performed independently of the axial movement of the blade shaft (16). The present invention further relates to an apparatus (62) and method for processing animal products, in particular for preparing fillets.

This disclosure relates to a method of estimating weight of food objects, comprising training an artificial neural network software module, and using the trained artificial neural network software module to provide a weight correlated data estimate for said food object based on a three dimensional (3D) image of the food object.

A method of obtaining a food product for human consumption from a back portion of a chicken, the food product comprising at least one scapula of the chicken, the method comprising the steps of: inserting a knife in a lengthwise direction adjacent to a spine on a first side in a widthwise direction of the spine and subsequently inserting on a second side in the widthwise direction of the spine, cutting meat under the first and second scapulae in the first and second widthwise directions; inserting the knife in the widthwise direction above the spine and subsequently cutting in a lengthwise direction between the spine and the scapulae to remove the food product comprising the scapulae from the spine.

The invention relates to a device (10) which is configured and adapted to separate a fillet (13) located on a keel ridge (11) of a poultry carcass (12) from the poultry carcass (12) which has been deprived of the breast fillet, comprising a circulating conveyor (14) and at least one treatment station (17) along a conveying path of the conveyor (14), the conveyor having at least one holding device (15) with a support body (16) for receiving and holding the poultry carcass or part thereof during conveying in a conveying direction T by the device (10), wherein one of the treatment stations (17) is configured as a separating unit (18) for separating the fillet (13) from the keel ridge (11), characterized in that the separating unit (18) comprises a pre-separating element (19) and a separating element (20), wherein the pre-separating element (19) is configured and adapted to cut into the fillet (13) in the region of a keel angle (21) of the keel ridge (11) which leads in the conveying direction T, and the separating element (20) is configured and adapted to grip the fillet (13) and to peel it off the keel ridge (11). The invention also relates to a corresponding method.

A poultry leg meat slit-forming device includes ankle holding part (2) that holds ankle of poultry leg meat (M), a blade unit (3) having slit-forming blade (23), an inserting driving part (4) that drives the blade unit (3), a leg meat pressing part (5) that presses surface of the poultry leg meat (M), and a moving part (9) that moves the ankle holding part (2), and the blade unit (3) includes a blade holding part (22) that holds a slit-forming blade (23) such that a blade edge of the slit-forming blade faces a side opposite with respect to the ankle holding part (2) in a direction of the slit-forming movement of the slit-forming blade (23) and that holds the slit-forming blade (23) so as to be displaceable in a front surface / back surface direction of the slit-forming blade, and a coil spring (25) that elastically biases the slit-forming blade (23) toward the bone of the poultry leg meat (M) in the front surface / back surface direction of the slit-forming blade (23).

The invention relates to a conveying device (10) for continuously conveying a plurality of poultry bodies or parts thereof in a conveying direction (11), said conveying device (10) being configured and adapted to orient the plurality of poultry bodies into different processing positions, comprising a continuous conveyor (12) provided with a plurality of receiving elements (13) for holding the plurality of poultry bodies, the continuous conveyor (12) is adapted to circulate in a conveying plane and form a conveying path, in which the plurality of receiving elements (13) each comprise a saddle element (15) adapted to receive one of the plurality of poultry and arranged on the base element (14) so as to be pivotable about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the conveying direction (11), and is characterized in that the continuous conveyor (12) is arranged in an inclined position, the base elements (14) are arranged on the continuous conveyor (12) such that the conveying plane is inclined with respect to the horizontal at an angle alpha of greater than 0 DEG and less than 90 DEG, each of the base elements (14) being arranged on the continuous conveyor (12) by means of an angled element (16) having an extension angle beta of less than 180 DEG and greater than 90 DEG. The invention also relates to a device for recovering sliced meat and to a corresponding method for transporting and recovering sliced meat.

The disclosure relates to a system and method for processing a poultry part having at least a breast portion. A contour measurement device (100) measures a breast contour of the breast portion in a plane parallel to a sagittal plane of the poultry part (10) while a conveyor (60) conveys a mandrel (50), and the poultry part (10) supported thereby, in a conveyance direction along the contour measurement device (100). Based on the measured breast contour, a setting of a downstream processing device is adjusted.

A cutting system that may comprise a cutting tool and a motor. The cutting tool may comprise a first end wherein the first end may have a substantially hollow, cylindrically shaped, sharpened outer edge. The motor may be mechanically coupled to the cutting tool and can be configured to cause the first end of the cutting tool to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the first end. the system may further comprise a platform that can be configured to support an item to be cut. The item to be cut may be butterflied poultry. The platform may comprise a first side that can be configured to support a first side of the item to be cut, a second side that can be configured to support a second side of the item to be cut, and an apex that may be disposed between the first side and the second side.

A dismountable poultry processing knife and mounting frame. The mounting frame provided with a quick release mechanism for quickly mounting or dismounting of a poultry processing knife while avoiding screw connections. The poultry processing knife provided with quick release features which are arranged to cooperate with the quick release mechanism of the mounting frame.

A poultry processing system for inline processing a poultry carcass front half. The system comprises a mandrel having a plane of symmetry in a vertical orientation for supporting a carcass front half having a neck end and a tail end with its skeletal structure including a keel bone on top of the mandrel with the keel bone aligned with the plane of symmetry of the mandrel. The system comprises a conveyor for conveying the mandrel in a horizontal conveyance direction. The mandrel is coupled to the conveyor in a fixed orientation relative to the conveyance direction in which the plane of symmetry aligns with the conveyance direction. The system comprises a poultry processing station in a conveyance path of the conveyor. The poultry processing station comprises a processing member for engaging the carcass front half as the carcass front half is conveyed on the mandrel in the fixed orientation along the poultry processing station. The processing member is movable relative to the conveyor along a trajectory within a vertical plane parallel to the plane of symmetry between a first position for allowing the carcass front half to pass the processing member, and a second position for engaging the carcass front half.