876results about "Fish washing/descaling" patented technology

The present invention relates to compositions including peroxyacetic acid and peroxyoctanoic acid and methods for reducing microbial contamination on poultry. The methods include the step of applying a mixed peroxycarboxylic acid composition to poultry.

A poultry lacer device is disclosed for sewing closed a fowl such as a chicken or turkey in preparation for cooking. The poultry lacer device is comprised of a textured cord having an array of alternating cord protrusions and cord indentions with a sewing implement operable for penetrating the skin of a fowl affixed to one end of the textured cord and a gripping assembly connected to the other end of the textured cord that is operable for cinching and un-cinching of the textured cord around the carcass of a fowl.

In the inventive method for the sanitary rinsing of an animal, an assembly line is provided which includes a plurality of shackles. Each shackle includes an inventive tag which includes a machine readable unique shackle number. Once an animal is stunned and attached to a shackle the animal is moved to a weighing station, which is equipped with a tag reader, weighs the animal and transmits the weight and shackle number to a computer where the data is recorded in a database. The animal is then bled and moved to a rinsing station, which is equipped with a tag reader which reads the shackle number. The system then looks up the weight of the animal to be rinsed at that particular rinsing station and calculates the amount of solution to inject into the circulatory system of the animal. After the end of the hose and nozzle and the operator's hands are sanitized, which is verified by the system, the nozzle is inserted into an entry point into the circulatory system and the operator starts the flow of the predetermined amount of solution into the animal. If the flow is not started within a time window, the operator must re-sanitize.

The invention discloses a descaling device. The descaling device comprises a stable antiskid device and a descaling device which are matched for descaling and are fixedly arranged on a conveying device in a batch fish treatment system. The descaling device is characterized in that: the descaling device comprises a pair or a plurality of pairs of cylindrical descaling rollers with concave middle parts, wherein the cylindrical descaling rollers are driven by rotating shafts (6) arranged on a support (11) through a gear set or a belt, and the rotating shafts are driven by a motor (12); the rotating shafts (6) of the descaling rollers are connected with springs which provide inward acting forces in opposite directions; and the cylindrical surfaces of the descaling rollers are provided with descaling protuberances (9). The descaling device is used for fish pre-treatment production lines for massively processing fishes, can also be independently used as descaling machinery, can achieve the effects of rapidly and efficiently descaling by lower cost and a simple equipment structure so as to make the industrialized large-batch automatic production of fish treatment possible, and has a good descaling effect and low error probability.

A process and apparatus for removing or reducing the levels of pathogenic bacteria present on an eviscerated carcass. The process includes introducing the eviscerated carcass to a cleaning apparatus. The cleaning apparatus generally includes a housing structure having an entrance and an exit. Disposed within the housing structure is a rotating brush assembly and a spray assembly. The brushing assembly provides brushing and massaging actions to the surfaces of the carcass whereas the spraying assembly simultaneously directs a cleaning solution onto the surfaces of the carcass.

The present invention relates to compositions including peroxyacetic acid and peroxyoctanoic acid and methods for reducing microbial contamination on poultry. The methods include the step of applying a mixed peroxycarboxylic acid composition to poultry.

The invention provides a processing method of sushi sashimi, which belongs to the field of processing of aquatic products. The processing method comprises the steps of taking a live fresh scaly fish as a raw material, carrying out acceptance, temporary storage in ice water and pretreatment, or taking a frozen scaly fish as the raw material, firstly carrying out ultrasonic thawing, further removing a tail, removing scales, carrying out ultrasonic cleaning, cutting into slices, trimming, picking out insects, removing bones, cleaning, carrying out ultrasonic quick freezing, classifying, glazing, packaging, carrying out metal detection, freezing, and carrying out other process steps for processing the sushi sashimi. The sushi sashimi processed by adopting the method has good quality, and the sensory, the physical and the chemical properties, as well as the safety sanitation quality are in line with requirements; furthermore, the processing method has short thawing time, short freezing time and high processing efficiency, and can be popularized in the processing of the aquatic products.

The invention discloses a method and a device for cleaning fresh and alive sea cucumbers suitable for continuous production, which use bubbles generated by compressed air ejected upwards from the bottom of a water tank to perform scatheless and omnibearing cleaning on the body surfaces of the fresh and alive sea cucumbers, can thoroughly eliminate silt, mucus and other impurities in rugae on the body surfaces, and simultaneously use water flow for propulsion in the cleaning process to achieve non-mechanism delivery without damaging the skin of the fresh and alive sea cucumbers, and output the cleaned sea cucumbers continuously by using an output conveying belt for the convenience of continuous production, wherein the bubble ejection quantity and the water flow propulsive force are adjustable and controllable to satisfy the cleanings with requirements on different specifications and different cleaning forces. Besides, the higher end of the output conveying belt is provided with a spray water curtain to perform secondary spray cleaning on the cleaned sea cucumbers so as to achieve the optimal cleaning effect. The device also has water-saving function, and the cleaning water can be recycled through water quality purification.

The portable sink is capable of being connected to an existing water supply, such as an outdoor hose or faucet, such that running water can be provided inside the sink in an outdoor environment. The sink preferably has features that make it easy to use in any outdoor environment, such as folding legs, an adjustable spigot, a spray nozzle, a storage drawer, a shelf, a large drain, a funnel, a strainer for the drain, cutting boards, baskets, etc. The lid also enables the sink to be used as a container for storing items during travel. In this respect, the sink can be made of an insulating material so that it can double as an ice chest when desired. A pressurized water tank can be provided which is preferably sized to fit inside the sink and adapted to supply water where no other water supply is available.

The invention provides a full-automatic fish descaling and cutting processor. The full-automatic fish descaling and cutting processor comprises a conveyor, a descaling device, a belly cutting device and a viscera removing device, wherein the conveyor is used for stably conveying fish downwards by means that a rotation shaft drives a conveyor belt; the descaling device is used for removing the scales at the both sides of the fish through high-speed rotation of two scraping rollers with brushes at the upper part of the conveyor; the cutting device is a sawtooth wheel rotating in a conveying process and can be used for cutting a fish maw; the viscera removing device is an extending prism body in the conveying process and rightly extends into the fish maw to remove fish viscera.

This invention is directed to processes designed to recover water used in certain aspects of the processing of poultry, treat the recovered water to remove solids, fats, oils and greases, animal proteins and pathogenic organisms and to reuse the treated water for poultry processing operations. Although the reuse points will vary from plant to plant depending upon specific water consumption volumes, type of processing operations conducted by the facility and regulatory requirements and approvals, there are a number of reuse points which are preferred based upon treated water quality requirements, material balances relating to the capacity to recover process streams and the consumption volumes at the identified reuse points, and source waters that have been shown to have the least total contaminant loading.

The production process of instant abalone food in soft package includes the steps of freezing fresh abalone, shelling, eliminating internal organ to obtain complete abalone proleg, washing, first setting, seasoning, second setting, packing in disposable plastic film, section sterilizing to obtain the instant abalone food. The instant abalone food has complete abalone shape, eating convenience suitable for fast-paced life, and long preservation period in normal temperature,.

The invention relates to a sea cucumber pretreatment technology for mechanically processing and equipment thereof. The sea cucumber pretreatment technology for mechanically processing comprises the working procedures of pre-inspection impurity removal, flexible cleaning, dirty removal classification, grading measurement, high-temperature stewing, extrusion molding and low-temperature cooling; in the working procedure of the pre-inspection impurity removal, a sea cucumber is sprayed, wetted and washed by purified water and screened by taking a hole and a seam with a certain geometric dimension as boundaries; in the cleaning working procedure, the sea cucumber is placed into a water storage container of which the bottom is input with pressure gas from bottom to top and transported by pressure water flow; in the working procedure of the high-temperature stewing, the sea cucumber is advanced at a certain speed in the boiling water of a stewing groove, and after being gathered, the scum of the water surface is dispelled out of the stewing groove in a guide gathering and / or draining way; and in the working procedure of the extrusion molding, the sea cucumber is sprayed and cooled by low-temperature water and extruded by elastic flexible force during drainage. A pre-inspection device, a cleaning device, a stewing device and a molding device are manufactured and provided according to the sea cucumber pretreatment technology for mechanically processing, thereby the high working efficiency is achieved and the high quality of a finished product is ensured.

The present invention relates to compositions including peroxyacetic acid and peroxyoctanoic acid and methods for reducing microbial contamination on poultry. The methods include the step of applying a mixed peroxycarboxylic acid composition to poultry.

A device for picking or plucking poultry feathers is provided that includes a sleeve-coupling and, connected or connectable thereto, a plucking plate with receptacles for plucking fingers, which sleeve-coupling is mountable on a drive-shaft for the plucking plate. The sleeve-coupling is provided with a circumferentially extending slot for receipt of a radially extending pin that is provided on the drive-shaft, and the circumferentially extending slot has an opening between the slot-extremities to allow the pin to enter and to exit the slot so as to securely mount the sleeve coupling on the drive shaft with the pin being located at one of the slot extremities.

A butchering tool including a handle and a bar extending from the handle. A claw is affixed to the bar remote from the handle. The claw includes a primary hook curving downwardly and rearwardly toward the bottom of the handle and a notch in the top thereof. The claw also includes a secondary hook that curves upwardly and rearwardly toward the top of the handle and that partially closes the notch.

The invention relates to a blade-free automatic copying fish scale scraper; the blade-free automatic copying fish scale scraper comprises a frame and is characterized by further comprising a scaling device, a swinging mechanism and a power transmission mechanism, wherein the equipment has the advantages of high automation degree and short machining time and can effectively adapt to variations of fish types, sizes and surface curves; distances between scaling rollers can be automatically adjusted according to the size of a fish body during scaling; a scaling tool contains no blade, so that no damage can be caused to fish flashes during scaling; and tender and delicious fish flashes can be preferably protected.

A field dressing knife suitable for all aspects of field dressing small and large game is disclosed. Various novel aspects of the knife include: a large butt-end of the handle and a groove near the butt-end of the handle, both to spread the normal stress over a larger surface area when striking the butt-end of the handle with a free hand for splitting pelvis and brisket bones; and a configurable handle, permitting the double-edged field dressing knife to be used in knife mode or in a hatchet mode.

Disclosed is a novel method and system for dehairing an animal, providing a system for recycling and safely disposing of chemical and biological wastes produced during such dehairing method. Included in such method are processes for handling sodium production in waste materials, reducing and handling production of H2S, removing sulfides from animal hides, safely disposing of sulfide waste, removing solids from the waste materials, and reducing water and reagent use and disposal.

The invention discloses a marine food product cleaning and impurity-removing device, which comprises a rack, a rotary shaft, stirring rods, a spray pipe, a water inlet pipe, a water pump, a cleaning table, and a cleaning box, wherein the upper part of the rotary shaft is arranged on the rack in a rotatable way; a water inlet cavity with an opening on the upper end is arranged on the upper part of the rotary shaft; at least two layers of stirring rods are arranged on the lower part of the rotary shaft from top to bottom; the spray pipe is arranged on the upper part of the rotary shaft; a pipe cavity of the spray pipe is communicated with the water inlet cavity, and is provided with a plurality of nozzles with downward openings along an axial direction; one end of the water inlet pipe is connected with the upper end of the rotary shaft through a rotating joint; the water pump is connected with the other end of the water inlet pipe; the cleaning table is arranged under the rack; the cleaning box is arranged on the cleaning table in a support way; the stirring rod stretches into the bottom part of the cleaning box; a drainage pipe is arranged on the lower end of the cleaning box; a drainage valve is arranged on the drainage pipe. The marine food product cleaning and impurity-removing device provided by the invention not only can be used for spraying and washing marine food products through the spray pipe, but also can be used for stirring to clean the marine food products through the stirring rod, has high cleaning efficiency on the marine food products, and can be beneficial to effectively reducing the labor intensity.

A meat tenderizer with disposable face plates requires that a fresh face plate be chosen for each use to prevent cross contamination from one use of the tenderizer to the next. The table or tables of the tenderizer head are flat and accept the face plates which may have a flat tenderizing surface or any of several textured tenderizing surfaces. The face plates are intended for a single use. Once used a face plate is discarded. The user selects the appropriate face plate for the task at hand, attaches it to the tenderizer and removes and discards it after use. Since a clean unused face plate is selected for each use, the tenderizer does not have to be washed between uses thereby saving time for the chef and providing a sanitary tenderizing surface for contact with the meat.

A rapid scale removing and fish killing machine comprises a cabinet, the cabinet is provided with fish inlets and a fish outlet, the fish inlet vertically fixes fish entering the cabinet from the fish inlet, a descaling device for scraping fish scales and a belly splitting device for splitting fish bellies are arranged in the cabinet, the descaling device and the belly splitting device are driven by a motor to move, the descaling device comprises a side part descaling mechanism for removing side part scales and a back and belly descaling mechanism for removing back and belly scales, and the belly splitting device comprises a fish feeding track arranged in the cabinet, being close to the fish outlet and having a cutter head, a fish head positioning mechanism arranged on the fish feeding track, and a fish head clamping mechanism fixed in the cabinet and used for fixing the fish head in the belly splitting process. The rapid scale removing and fish killing machine has the advantages of rapidity and cleanness in scale removal, accurate positioning in belly spitting, suitableness for market places, hotels and other massive fish killing places, compact structure, high working efficiency, and suitableness for being promoted.

The invention discloses an automatic fish washing machine. The automatic fish washing machine comprises a rack, and further comprises a first fish clamping belt set, a second fish clamping belt set, a fish pressing mechanism, a fish belly opening device, a viscera and black film removing and washing device and a fish body sliding groove. The first fish clamping belt set and the second fish clamping belt set which are consistent in conveying direction are installed on the rack side by side, and a conveying channel is formed between the first fish clamping belt set and the second fish clamping belt set. The fish body sliding groove is fixedly connected to the lower edge of the conveying channel and extends to the exterior of a starting end of the conveying channel to form a fish inlet. The fish pressing mechanism is fixedly connected to the upper portion of the conveying channel. The fish belly opening device is fixedly connected to the fish body sliding groove, and the viscera and black film removing and washing device is fixedly connected to the lower portion of the fish belly opening device. The automatic fish washing machine can quickly open the fish belly, remove fish viscera and the black film on fish and carry out washing thoroughly; the automatic fish washing machine is simple in structure principle, low in cost, easy to operate, good in stability, and the treatment effect is more ideal especially for different sizes of daces.

The invention relates to an automatic fish killing machine. The machine comprises a machine frame, a working table, and a clamping device, a descaling device, a conveying device, a belly cutting device and an evisceration device which are arranged on the working table, and the working table is provided with a working groove; the clamping device has a channel structure with openings in the front and back, the channel cross-sectional size of the clamping device is adjustable, and the opening direction of the clamping device is the same as the length extension direction of the working groove; thedescaling device includes a first power part, a second power part, and descaling rollers symmetrically arranged on both sides of the working groove; the conveying device includes a first conveying group, a second conveying group and a first transmission component; the belly cutting device includes a third power part and a saw blade; and the evisceration device includes a second transmission component and a scraper blade. The automatic fish killing machine has a compact structure and lower cost, improves the reasonable utilization rate of resources, is suitable for use by small and medium-sized merchants, and effectively improves the degree of mechanization of fish processing.

The invention belongs to the technical field of food processing, in particular relates to a fresh fish scaling device. The fresh fish scaling device comprises a delivery wheel, a fish conveying device, a sliding chute, a first guiding device, a second guiding device, a scaling device, a sawtooth blade, a conveyor belt and an operating platform, wherein the sliding chute, the first guiding device, the scaling device, the second guiding device and the sawtooth blade are sequentially arranged on the operating platform along the moving direction of the conveyor belt. Fresh fished are placed into the sliding chute and are fixed on the fish conveying device, the delivery wheel is driven by a small motor, the fish conveying device moves forward together with a belt, the guiding devices are used for ensuring that fish bodies can go straight into the scaling device, a scaling blade is automatically regulated to be fully fitted with the fish bodies and be fully contacted with fish scales so that the fish scales are effectively removed. The invention has the advantages that the fresh fish scaling device is produced in small batch to be supplied to a fish processing workshop, the fresh fish scaling device can also be applied to a family who eat more fishes, and the fresh fish scaling device has low cost and high efficiency and is safe and healthy.

An apparatus and method are provided to clean and sanitize livestock carcasses. The apparatus includes a livestock carcass travel path, at least one liquid dispenser configured to dispense liquid to the carcass travel path, and at least one treatment electrode. A control circuit is configured to cause an alternating electric field to be generated between the electrode and a surface of a carcass along the travel path, through the dispensed liquid.

The invention discloses a sea cucumber washing conveyer comprising a filter tank and a washing box; the bottom of the filter tank is provided with moving wheels, a water return pump is disposed in the filter tank, a filter is arranged beside the water return pump, a filter mesh is arranged beside the filter, the washing box is arranged above the filter tank, a conveyer belt is arranged in the washing box, an ultrasonic generator is arranged beside the conveyer belt, a salt content detection probe is arranged beside the ultrasonic generator, a water return pipe is disposed on the lateral side of the washing box, an automatic salt adder is disposed on the washing box, a controller is arranged beside the automatic salt adder and is provided with an alarm device, the outflow end of the conveyer belt is provided with a spray pipe, and an infrared counter is arranged beside the spray pipe. The sea cucumber washing conveyer has the advantages that ultrasonic and saline enable sea cucumbers to spit muddy sand therein, cleaning speed is high, and the sea cucumbers can be counted.

The invention discloses a fish killing machine. A scaling mechanism, a traction mechanism, a back cutting mechanism and an intestine scraping mechanism are arranged on a rack of the fish killing machine, wherein two first vertical rods are arranged in parallel in sequence in the scaling mechanism; a sliding sleeve movably sleeves each first vertical rod; the two sliding sleeves can vertically reciprocate synchronously; a high-pressure nozzle is fixedly arranged on each sliding sleeve through a connecting part; the two high-pressure nozzles are supplied with water through one same high-pressure water supply system; the water ejection holes of the two high-pressure nozzles both face rightwards; scales on the back and two sides of fish are flushed off through high-pressure water columns ejected from the two high-pressure nozzles; a first rotating shaft is horizontally arranged between the vertical rods and the traction mechanism; a scaling roller for removing the scales on the fish belly fixedly sleeves the middle of the first rotating shaft. By adopting the fish killing machine, scaling, back cutting, intestine scraping and viscus removing are rapidly and efficiently achieved, so that manual work can be replaced to automatically kill fishes, both the scales, the intestines and the viscera can be removed and the fish meat cannot be damaged, and the fish meat loss is small.

Processing poultry includes the application of electrolyzed water as one step during the processing process. Acidic and / or basic electrolyzed water can be applied to a poultry carcass during the processing process using a nozzle, an electrostatic sprayer or by immersion.