100results about "Fish sorting" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of aquatic product treatment, and discloses a large yellow croaker automatic grading and sorting device based on machine vision, which comprises a conveying system, a recognition and detection system, a control system and a sorting system. According to the large yellow croaker automatic grading and sorting device based on machine vision, the working distance of the camera can be adjusted, adaptive adjustment can be better carried out according to requirements, and in the whole operation process, the problem that cultured fishes are graded by mainly adopting a manual sorting mode at present, and the sorting efficiency is greatly improved is solved. The method has the problems of low efficiency, high labor input, high fish body damage rate and the like, the device can automatically identify the large yellow croaker, automatically measure the size, estimate the weight and the fatness through a visual system, and classify and sort the large yellow croaker, and by setting the classification standard, the sorting efficiency is improved, the input labor cost is reduced, and the product quality is improved. In addition, damage to fish bodies is small, practicability is high, and the requirement for the existing large yellow croaker sorting process is better met.

The invention discloses a safe cleaning device for jellyfish food, and relates to the technical field of jellyfish cleaning and processing equipment.The safe cleaning device comprises a box cover arranged on the upper portion of a machine box, four cleaning cylinders which are symmetrically distributed are arranged in an inner cavity of the machine box, and a top frame penetrating through the two ends of the box cover is installed at the top of the machine box; the hydraulic telescopic rod drives the lifting rod to lift. According to the safe cleaning device for the jellyfish food, jellyfishes of different sizes are sorted and separated through the sorting plate driven by shaking of the cleaning cylinder, so that the jellyfishes of different sizes are located at different end positions of the cleaning cylinder, a door plate is driven by a closing mechanism to conduct automatic blocking, and then a vortex driving mechanism and a second paddle are driven to stir water flow; according to the jellyfish cleaning device, the jellyfish with the large size can be cleaned in different zones to form eddy currents, the jellyfish with the large size can be impacted by water flow, the different zones have different cleaning strengths, and the cleaning efficiency of the jellyfish with the large size can be improved on the basis that the jellyfish with the small size is prevented from being damaged.

To provide a fish selection system which can suppress damage on fishes, and accurately select fishes.SOLUTION: A fish selection system 1 selects fishes FS. The fish selection system 1 comprises: an alignment device 10 for aligning fishes so that, a cranio caudal direction of the fishes FS is along a transport direction; a transport device 21, 31 which has a transport plane on which the aligned fishes FS are mounted, and transports the fishes FS on the transport plane to the transport direction; a distribution device 30 which has a wall surface extending in a direction along the transport direction above the transport plane, and moves the wall surface in an extrusion direction being a direction orthogonal to the transport direction and being a direction along the transport plane, for extruding the fishes FS to outside of the transport plane, by the wall surface; and a control unit 20 which acquires from the fishes FS, selection basic information being a base of the selection, then controls the distribution device on the basis of the acquired selection basic information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The utility model relates to the technical field of frozen fish crushing devices, in particular to a frozen fish crushing device with a crushed ice treatment function, which comprises a crushing box, a separating assembly and a conveying assembly, a separating assembly used for treating ice blocks on the surfaces of frozen fishes to separate the frozen fishes from the ice is mounted in the crushing box, a conveying assembly used for conveying the frozen fishes to be crushed is mounted at the outer end of the crushing box, and the separating assembly comprises a corner angle plate, an overturning plate, a rotating rod, a rotating motor, a sieve plate, a filter plate, a fixing bolt, a driving motor, a driving rod, a cutter wheel, a collecting box and a storage frame. Sieve plates are symmetrically arranged on the inner side of the crushing box; according to the utility model, the sieve plate is connected with the filter plate, so that ice cubes are separated from frozen fish when the frozen fish is turned over and the ice cubes are treated, the ice cubes attached to the surface of the frozen fish are ensured to be effectively removed, the situation that the ice cubes take away a part of water of the fish body when the ice cubes are melted, the fish body becomes dry and the taste is reduced is avoided, and the product quality is improved.

The utility model discloses a fish grading and screening device, which relates to the technical field of sorting equipment and comprises a sorting support, a grading mechanism arranged in the middle of the sorting support, a power gap adjusting mechanism arranged at the front end of the sorting support, a regulating component arranged on the upper portion of the sorting support and a discharging box arranged on the lower portion of the sorting support. A front supporting frame is fixed in front of the sorting supporting frame, the grading mechanism comprises sorting rollers, the power gap adjusting mechanism comprises a supporting box, a sliding boss is fixed to the supporting box, a guide groove is formed in the gap adjusting plate, the sliding boss is in sliding connection with the guide groove, an air cylinder is fixed to the front supporting frame, and the output end of the air cylinder is fixed to the gap adjusting plate. The device has the beneficial effects that the motor rotates to drive the universal joint to rotate through the cooperation of the bevel gear, the universal joint rotates to enable the sorting rollers to rotate, and through the arrangement of the guide grooves in the sliding bosses, the sliding bosses horizontally move to enable the gaps between the supporting boxes to change, and the gaps between the sorting rollers are driven to change.

The invention discloses a fish body slicing and sorting integrated device, which relates to the technical field of food processing equipment, and comprises a rack, a claw bracket, a fish meat bracket, a blade bracket, a sorting air tap, a blanking air tap and a fish bone separation cutter. The invention further discloses a processing method of the fish body slicing processing and sorting integrated device. The processing method comprises the steps of feeding, separating bones from meat, slicing fish meat, sorting fish slices and discharging. By arranging the fishbone hooks, the fish meat bracket and the fishbone separation cutter, when a fish body is sliced, the upper and lower groups of fishbone hooks can be turned over and inserted into the end part of the fishbone in the fish body and clamp the forked part of the fishbone, so that the fishbone is hooked, and the fishbone hooks can horizontally drive the fish body to move; in the traction process of the fish body, the obliquely designed fishbone separation cutter can be inserted into the fish body and is attached to the surface of the fishbone, so that the fishbone and the fish meat are separated in the traction process of the fish body.

The utility model relates to the technical field of aquatic product processing, in particular to an automatic feeding machine for aquatic product processing, which comprises a fish storage pond, the upper surface of the fish storage pond is fixedly connected with a mounting block, the inner surface of the mounting block is fixedly connected with a fish suction pump, and the water inlet end of the fish suction pump is fixedly connected with a first pipeline. The first pipeline is located in the fish storage pond, the water outlet end of the fish suction pump is fixedly connected with a second pipeline, a buffer box is arranged below the end, away from the fish suction pump, of the second pipeline, the side wall of the buffer box is fixedly connected with first supporting legs, and the side wall of the buffer box is fixedly connected with a baffle. Second supporting legs are fixedly connected to the side wall of the baffle, a first fish box is arranged below the baffle, and a second fish box is arranged on the right side of the first fish box. The fish fishing device is reasonable in structure, fishes can be automatically fished out of the fish storage pond, meanwhile, the effect of distinguishing the fishes with different sizes and body types is achieved, and two purposes are achieved.

The present application relates to the technical field of fishery classification, and provides a shipborne automatic fishery classification device, which comprises a sorting box, a plurality of fish sorting rods are installed in the sorting box and used for fishery classification, a cleaning box is installed on one side of the sorting box and used for cleaning the fishery, and an adjusting mechanism is installed in the sorting box, the adjusting mechanism comprises a sliding rod, a first connecting block and a limiting rod, a plurality of first connecting blocks are installed on one side of the sorting box, the first connecting blocks are slidably connected with the sliding rod in the inside, the sliding rod is slidably connected with the limiting rod on the outer wall, and the limiting rod is installed on the inner wall of the sorting box. The rotation of the rotating disc, the rotating rod and the gear drives the rack to drive the sliding rod to move in the limiting rod, and then drives the second connecting block and the flow dividing rod to move, so that the gap between the fish sorting rods is accurately controlled, the classification range of the fishery is adjusted, and the classification efficiency is improved.

An apparatus and method for sorting and orienting food items includes a first conveyor, a second conveyor extending from the first conveyor and for transporting, in a second feed direction, food items received from the first conveyor, an opening formed at the end of the first conveyor, a first sensor device for obtaining information on the food items, a pick-and-place robot arranged to pick food items from the first conveyor and place them on the second conveyor, a control module configured for receiving information from the first sensor device and for controlling the robot. The robot is controlled to pick food items from the first conveyor and to place and selectively orient the food item relative to the second feed direction on the second conveyor, if the food item belongs to a first category only, and such that food items belonging to a second category will pass into the opening.

There is presented a gutting system (100) comprising a dual gutting device (110) and an infeed system (130) for the dual gutting device comprising a fish input region (132), a plurality of fish output regions (134a-b), a conveying system (136) for conveying fish from the input region to the plurality of output regions, wherein the conveying system comprises a conveying surface (138) comprising an inclined surface arranged for conveying fish received at the input region, one or more trapdoors (140) arranged in the inclined surface, wherein the conveying system is arranged to convey fish received at the input region to the one or more trapdoors, and wherein the conveying system is arranged so that the configuration of the one or more trapdoors determines which output region the fish are conveyed to, the system furthermore comprising a controller arranged for controlling the configuration of the one or more trapdoors, wherein the dual gutting device and the infeed system is arranged so that for each gutting device, there is an output region arranged for providing fish to the conveying arrangement of said gutting device, such as to an input end of the conveying arrangement of said gutting device. There is furthermore presented a corresponding method and use.

The invention belongs to the field of quick-frozen food production, and particularly relates to a quick-frozen food ice wrapping device which comprises a supporting seat. An ice wrapping assembly is arranged at the top of the supporting seat and can be used for performing ice wrapping processing on the quick-frozen food; a screening assembly is arranged on the side face of the ice wrapping assembly. According to the structural design that quick-frozen fish is subjected to ice wrapping processing through the ice wrapping assembly, after processing is completed, the quick-frozen fish is guided into the screening assembly through the material guiding assembly, and the quick-frozen fish is screened through the screening assembly according to the thickness of ice glaze, the function that ice wrapping processing of the quick-frozen fish can be more convenient and rapid is achieved; the problems that when quick-frozen food is subjected to ice wrapping processing, the existing ice wrapping technology mostly adopts manual operation, so that the ice wrapping thickness is not uniform, the ice wrapping fresh-keeping effect is easily influenced, and meanwhile, manual operation cannot perform online continuous ice wrapping processing, so that the workload of ice wrapping processing is large, and the working efficiency is low are effectively solved.

The invention relates to the technical field of marine product processing equipment, and particularly discloses frozen marine product conveying equipment which comprises a base and further comprises a conveying belt arranged on the base and a plurality of ice breaking mechanisms arranged in the length direction of the base at equal intervals. The conveying belt is connected with the base; the ice breaking mechanism comprises an ice breaking box with an opening in the bottom and an ice breaking assembly arranged in the ice breaking box. The ice breaking box is fixedly connected with the base; the ice breaking assembly comprises a fixing plate, a guide rod, a nut seat, a sliding block, ice breaking parts symmetrically arranged on the two sides of the sliding block in the width direction of the sliding block, a driving part used for driving the sliding block to do vertical reciprocating motion, and a moving part used for driving the nut seat to do reciprocating motion in the length direction of the guide rod. The fixed plate is fixedly connected with the ice breaking box; the guide rod is fixedly connected with the fixed plate; the nut seat is slidably connected with the guide rod. The problem that existing conveying equipment cannot directly absorb water retained on marine products is solved.

The application discloses a kind of automatic screening machine for processing of ice goby in the technical field of ice goby processing, including inlet hopper, inlet hopper top opening, first water pipe is communicated at the top of inlet hopper, and inlet hopper is communicated with screening device;Screening device includes first transport pipe, and first transport pipe is communicated with inlet hopper, and the end of first transport pipe away from inlet hopper is communicated with freshness identifier, and the end of freshness identifier away from first transport pipe is communicated with second transport pipe;Freshness identifier includes cabinet, controller, camera, light source and power supply are arranged in cabinet, camera is located at the side of cabinet near the top of first transport pipe, light source is located at the side of cabinet near the bottom of first transport pipe, first valve is arranged in first transport pipe, second valve is arranged at the communication part of second transport pipe and freshness identifier, and exhaust port is arranged at the side of cabinet, third valve is arranged in exhaust port.The technical scheme of the application can screen freshness by the proportion of white area of ice goby.

The utility model provides a marine organism collecting and classifying device, and mainly relates to the field of organism collecting and classifying equipment. A marine organism collecting and classifying device comprises a collecting barrel. The fish collecting device has the advantages that fishes of different sizes are classified according to the sizes by arranging the collecting barrels separated by the multiple stages of classifying plates, the rotating structures and the baffles are further arranged so that all the partitions can rotate, and influences between the fishes of different sizes are prevented through separation of the baffles; furthermore, a water inlet and outlet structure is arranged in the device, so that seawater flow can be controlled from the upper part to flow into the classification device to provide a living environment for marine fishes and discharge the internal water flow, and a multi-stage classification plate is arranged to be of a spiral structure, so that the multi-stage classification plate can be matched with a baffle to rotate to drive the fishes to be moved out step by step in a multi-stage manner; mutual influence caused by simultaneous discharge of fishes with different sizes is avoided.

A method for processing a live fish can include: determining a set of fish attributes of a fish, optionally sorting the fish based on the set of fish attributes, euthanizing the fish, exsanguinating the fish, and / or any other suitable steps. In variants, the method can additionally or alternatively include: discarding the fish after sorting, further processing the fish, and / or tracking the fish. However, the method can additionally and / or alternatively include any other suitable elements.

The invention discloses an automatic squid sorting system carried by an ocean squid fishing ship, and aims to provide the automatic squid sorting system carried by the ocean squid fishing ship, which can be used for automatically grading and sorting squids according to weight, so that the labor of a fishing ship is reduced, and the working efficiency is improved. The device comprises a feeding conveying belt; the input end of the pull distance conveying belt is in butt joint with the output end of the feeding conveying belt, and the conveying speed of the pull distance conveying belt is higher than that of the feeding conveying belt; the input end of the weighing conveying belt is in butt joint with the output end of the pull distance conveying belt; the input end of the grading conveying belt is in butt joint with the output end of the weighing conveying belt; the framing conveying belts are sequentially distributed in the conveying direction of the grading conveying belt; the grading push-out devices are in one-to-one correspondence with the framing conveying belts, each grading push-out device comprises a push plate located above the grading conveying belts and a translation mechanism for driving the push plate to move, and the grading push-out devices push the squids conveyed on the grading conveying belts to the corresponding dishing conveying belts.

The invention discloses an aquatic product rapid detection and grading sorting integrated device, and relates to the technical field of aquatic product detection equipment. The device comprises a base, a rotating seat is movably connected to the top of the base, and a fixed disc is mounted at the top of the rotating seat; a weighing assembly is arranged on one side of the fixing disc and comprises an adjusting groove formed in the fixing disc. Through the design of integrating the weighing assembly, the discharging assembly and the screening assembly, the sorting efficiency and accuracy of the aquatic products are remarkably improved, the weighing assembly weighs the aquatic products in real time through a weighing sensor, the sorting accuracy is ensured, the discharging assembly achieves rapid classification and discharging of the aquatic products through cooperation of an air cylinder and a push plate, and the screening efficiency is improved. According to the screening assembly, through the design of a rotating pipe and a screening shell, the aquatic products are effectively screened according to the size, the structural movement works cooperatively, the classification accuracy and consistency of the aquatic products are ensured, and the requirement of the market for the high-quality aquatic products is met.

The present invention discloses a shaft-rotating primary sorting machine for saury fish bodies, which comprises: a sorter, comprising an inlet and an outlet that are interconnected, a plurality of partition plates are arranged at intervals on the outlet, and the outlet forms a plurality of sorting channels through the plurality of partition plates; an upper box body, a plurality of groups of sorting units are arranged inside, and there is a gap between two adjacent groups of sorting units, the gap gradually increases from right to left and corresponds to the position of the sorting channel, wherein the size of the gap at different positions along the length direction of the upper box body matches the size of saury fish bodies of different levels; a gear box, which is respectively connected to the sorting units and is used to drive the sorting units to rotate; a plurality of front fish unloading boxes, which are arranged at intervals below the sorting units; and a rear fish unloading box, which is arranged at the tail of the upper box body. The present invention has high sorting efficiency and low labor cost.

The invention discloses a deep sea culture platform live fish processing system, and relates to the technical field of live fish processing. The deep and far sea culture platform live fish processing system comprises a three-dimensional frame and a first transfer mechanical arm, and is mounted on a deep and far sea culture platform; the three-dimensional frame comprises a lower-layer frame and an upper-layer frame; the first transfer mechanical arm is used for transferring a fish body between the lower-layer frame and the upper-layer frame; the first rotating disc type conveying assembly is of an annular structure and is arranged on the lower-layer frame; the first rotating disc type conveying assembly is sequentially provided with an electric shock module, a gill pricking module, a viscera removing module and a pre-cooling module in the circumferential direction. The second rotating disc type conveying assembly is of an annular structure and is arranged on the upper-layer frame; the second rotating disc type conveying assembly is sequentially provided with a grading module, a boxing module and a stacking module in the circumferential direction. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, the plane space occupancy rate of the live fish processing system can be reduced.

The utility model relates to the technical field of aquaculture equipment, in particular to classified screening equipment suitable for various fishes, which comprises a screening track and a support, an electric conveying belt is arranged on the inner side of the screening track and used for conveying the fishes, the support is arranged above the screening track, the inner side of the support is rotatably connected with a screening roller, and the screening roller is arranged on the support. An included angle is formed between the screening roller and the electric conveying belt; the driving motor is in transmission connection with the screening roller and is used for driving the screening roller to rotate; fish is conveyed through the electric conveying belt, the screening roller which forms an included angle with the conveying belt and can rotate is arranged above the electric conveying belt, and the height between the screening roller and the electric conveying belt is adjusted through the electric-hydraulic push rod. According to the structure, the corresponding relation between the size and thickness of fishes and the height between the screening roller and the conveying belt is utilized, and classified screening of fishes of different sizes can be achieved by adjusting the height.

The present invention relates to a fish feeding device (10), configured and designed for feeding fish (13) to several fish processing devices and comprises a transverse conveyor (14) configured for conveying the fish (13) transversely to their head-tail orientation in the transverse conveying direction (15), wherein the transverse conveyor (14) comprises a plurality of receiving elements (17) each configured for individually receiving one of the fish (13) and the transverse conveyor (14) has a controllably configured drive unit (19), at least one feeding device (11) configured for loading the receiving elements (19) of the transverse conveyor (14) with the fish, several transfer devices (16) configured for selectively transferring the fish (13) from the transverse conveyor to longitudinal conveyors (12) arranged upstream of the fish processing devices, wherein the longitudinal conveyors (12) are configuredThe invention relates to conveying the fish (13) along their head-tail orientation to the fish processing machines, and to a control device configured to control the at least one feeding device (11), the transfer devices (16), and the conveying speed of the transverse conveyor (14) based on at least one predetermined distribution rule. Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding method for feeding fish.

The utility model discloses a quick-frozen fish head production raw material acceptance device which comprises a first conveyor belt and a second conveyor belt, one end of the side face of the first conveyor belt is provided with a first acceptance mechanism used for preliminary observation acceptance, and one end of the side face of the first conveyor belt is provided with a monitoring mechanism used for monitoring raw materials. A turnover mechanism is arranged at one end in the monitoring mechanism; according to the utility model, some unqualified raw materials can be picked out through the first acceptance mechanism, the monitoring mechanism, the second acceptance mechanism and the like, the raw materials can be magnified and observed through the first magnifying lens and the second magnifying lens, and third inspection can be carried out through the camera and the display screen; therefore, judgment deviation caused by carefully staring at the raw materials for a long time is avoided, some unqualified raw materials are prevented from being mixed into other qualified raw materials, the qualification rate of the raw materials is improved, the health of consumers is prevented from being influenced, and the product quality is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of fish processing, and provides a fish cleaning device which comprises a conveying mechanism and a cleaning structure. The conveying mechanism comprises a feeding frame and two conveying frames, the feeding frame is provided with a feeding channel, the two conveying frames are connected to the two sides of the feeding frame respectively, a conveying space is formed between the two conveying frames, the feeding end of the conveying space communicates with the feeding channel, and the feeding end of the conveying space communicates with the feeding channel. A cutting assembly is erected at the discharging end of the conveying space. The cleaning mechanism comprises a cleaning frame, a spray-washing assembly and a brushing assembly, the cleaning frame is arranged below the discharging end of the conveying space, and the spray-washing assembly and the brushing assembly are erected on an opening in the top of the cleaning frame in a spaced mode. The cleaning device solves the problem that a manual cleaning mode is time-consuming and labor-consuming, and has the advantages of being compact in structure, capable of replacing part of manual labor force and high in cleaning efficiency.

The screening device for aquatic product processing comprises a side plate, a feeding box and a screening box, supporting plates are fixedly connected to the two sides of the bottom of the inner side of the side plate and are symmetrically arranged, springs are fixedly connected to the tops of the supporting plates, and the tops of the springs are connected with the top of the screening box. Knocking assemblies are arranged on the outer sides of the side plates correspondingly, and an evacuating assembly is arranged in the feeding box. According to the aquatic product screening device, the supporting plate and the springs are arranged, aquatic products enter the screening box from the feeding box, then the screening box extrudes the springs on the top of the supporting plate, then the springs release pressure to drive the screening box to rebound and vibrate, and therefore the screening box screens the aquatic products; the problems that in the screening link of aquatic product processing, a traditional manual picking mode has remarkable defects, firstly, the labor cost of an enterprise is greatly increased due to a large amount of human input, and secondly, the manual screening efficiency is low, and improvement of the overall working efficiency is seriously restricted are solved.

The utility model discloses a sea cucumber pretreatment device for extracting sea cucumber peptide powder, and relates to the technical field of sea cucumber pretreatment, the sea cucumber pretreatment device comprises a cleaning tank, a classification mechanism is arranged below the cleaning tank, and a cleaning mechanism is arranged in the cleaning tank; the classifying mechanism comprises a classifying assembly and a rotating assembly; the rotating component is positioned on the surface of the classifying component; the sorting assembly comprises a sorting tank, a spiral rod is arranged in the sorting tank, four discharging pipes are arranged below the sorting tank, and the diameters of the four discharging pipes are sequentially increased from left to right. Through the arrangement of the classification mechanism, a spiral rod in a classification assembly rotates to discharge cleaned sea cucumbers from a discharging pipe according to the size and classify the sea cucumbers, subsequent manual classification pretreatment operation is reduced, meanwhile, after the sea cucumbers are classified, the sea cucumber peptide powder extraction quality is improved, a rotating assembly conveniently drives the classification assembly to rotate, rotation of the spiral rod is facilitated, and the classification efficiency is improved. The sea cucumber pretreatment efficiency for extracting the sea cucumber peptide powder is improved.

This invention discloses a non-destructive testing and grading machine for large yellow croaker scales, belonging to the field of aquatic product sorting technology. The grading machine of this invention includes a second conveying component, which includes a conveyor belt. The conveyor belt has at least one active rod and an array of driven rods. A vibration damping component is provided below the material input end of the conveyor belt. The vibration damping component includes a second frame. The side of the second frame has a limiting connecting plate that is rotatably connected to the driven rod. The edge of the second frame has an extension connecting plate. The bottom of the extension connecting plate has a vertical rod connected to it. The bottom of the second frame has a third frame arranged parallel to it. The third frame has an elastic element connected to the vertical rod. The sorting machine of this invention can transport fish non-destructively during the sorting process and automatically clean the conveying equipment, avoiding damage to fish scales caused by sorting that affects the accuracy and efficiency of automated sorting. It can also reduce the impact of dirt accumulation on the conveyor belt surface on the accuracy of conveying and testing.

A method for processing a live fish can include: determining a set of fish attributes of a fish, optionally sorting the fish based on the set of fish attributes, euthanizing the fish, exsanguinating the fish, and / or any other suitable steps. In variants, the method can additionally or alternatively include: discarding the fish after sorting, further processing the fish, and / or tracking the fish. However, the method can additionally and / or alternatively include any other suitable elements.

According to the intelligent vision-based automatic squid feeding device and the squid recognition method, multiple squids can enter a special channel in a scattered and orderly manner, the squids are prevented from being stacked and stopped in the channel, and it is guaranteed that the squids slide into the conveying belt in sequence. Meanwhile, the squid conveying interval is controlled according to the running speed and start-stop time of the conveying belt, squid postures and positions are recognized according to images, and squid data collection is completed in combination with visual intelligence and deep learning. And the squids are accurately grabbed according to the collected data, aerial posture adjustment is completed, squid carcasses are grabbed, and the squids are accurately placed according to the lengths of the squid carcasses. In conclusion, the characteristics of the squids are fully considered, multiple squids can be screened, automatically recognized, fed and accurately placed, the production efficiency is effectively improved, and the labor cost is reduced.

A device for gutting a fish, an infeed for a fish processing device and a method of feeding fish into a fish processing device. To provide fast and correct positioning of the fish relative to sequentially moving conveying features, e.g., tail grippers, the device and infeed comprise a feeding conveyor moving the fish to a predetermined position and releases the fish and thereby drops the fish vertically into a feeding receptacle where it is gripped by the conveying features.