269results about "Poultry plucking mechanisms" 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.

Apparatus for de-feathering (i.e. picking or plucking) poultry. More particularly, picking apparatus employing a plurality of elongated picking elements which are resistant to cracking and / or micro-poring, and which are preferably flexible and / or bendable and which are of sufficiently low mass such as to decrease poundage yield loss (e.g. decrease fat loss and poultry wing damage). In some embodiments, apparatus is provided having a plurality of filaments rotatable about an axis for removing feathers from a poultry carcass.

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.

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.

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 hand-held epilating device capable of increasing plucking efficiency. The epilating device has a housing to be grasped by a hand of a user, and a plucking cylinder carrying at least one set of pinching elements for catching and pinching body hairs therebetween. The plucking cylinder has a longitudinal axis and is driven to rotate about the longitudinal axis to pluck the body hairs from the user's skin. The plucking cylinder is supported to the housing so as to effect a periodical movement relative to the housing within a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis. Thus, the area of the skin covered by the plucking cylinder can have increased chances of being in contact with the pinching elements as the pinching elements move periodically relative to the skin together with the plucking cylinder, thereby improving the plucking efficiency.

Methods and systems enable reuse of water in processing of animals into food. In one method, water used in processing of animals into food is received. The water is treated so as to convert the water into a treated from capable of being reused in the processing of the animals into food. The treating includes reducing the amount of solid particles in the water and adding gas to the water. The treated water is provided to be used in the food processing.

A shrimp peeling, deveining and head removal tool including a pair of handles pivoted together and urged apart by a compression spring, an upper blade attached to lower handle and a lower blade pivoted to both handles with the ends of the blades of substantially of the same configuration and disposed in close proximity one within the other when the handles are compressed, and a pair of tines extending, respectively, from the upper handle and the upper blade and being in contact substantially the entire length thereof when the handles are not compressed.

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.

The invention relates to a method for loosening the feathers of a fowl prior to killing and processing, by exposing the fowl to a radio frequency source producing a frequency from between approximately 5 GHz and approximately 40 GHz, with an average power density from between approximately 10 mW per square centimeter and approximately 100 mW per square centimeter, for a predetermined period of time. The invention also relates to a method for killing bacteria on the fowl prior to killing and processing.

A meat mallet for tenderizing and flattening meat with a handle, a neck and a head with interchangeable face plates. The face plates have a meat-engaging surface of varying patterns that can be flat, have outwardly projecting points of different sizes and shapes to accommodate meats having different connective tissues or other suitable tenderizing structure. The head has a partially hollow cavity that opens at a front end and stores the face plates in a nested configuration with the top-most plate being an in-use plate. The face plates have a perimeter support shoulder that facilitates the nesting configuration providing a perimeter support system while protecting the meat engaging surfaces of the face plates. A retainer ring has an inner threaded surface that threadedly engages an outer threaded surface of the front end of the head and allows the meat-engaging surface of the in-use plate to partially extend past the retainer ring to engage the subject meat.

Self-cleaning knife device and method that allows an operator with one hand to both hold the knife by the handle and to control running water which is cleaning the blade. The knife can include a rotatable knob which can be rotated by the operator to lower and raise the valve which blocks the flow of water through a hollow space in the knife. The water supply for the knife can be a pressurized water supply such as a garden hose attached to the end of the handle opposite the end that is attached to the knife. The hollow space in the knife can include a tube that is pinched shut and opened by the moving valve member. The valve member can be a flat headed screw where the flat head is used to press into and pinch the tube running through the handle. The self-cleaning knife can also include a push button switch which must be constantly depressed.

The fish pin bone remover has a handle and a blade member. The blade member is formed from a V-shaped blade blank. The blade blank has a left leg, a right leg and a bridge portion interconnecting the legs. The legs have inside edges and outside edges. The bridge portion has arcuate inside and outside edges. The bridge portion is formed to position the inside edges parallel to each other and spaced apart a selected distance. The outside edges of the legs are parallel to each other and spaced apart further than the inside edges. An outside surface of both legs and the bridge portion adjacent to the inside edges of the legs and the arcuate inside edge of the bridge is ground to form a continuous cutting edge that extends along the left inside edge the arcuate inside edge and the right inside edge.

A knife for deboning rib meat from ribs includes a plurality of spaced apart blades arranged in side by side relation, each blade having forward end, a rearward end and a sharp bottom edge, a deboning head transversely interconnecting the blades and which includes a sharp bottom edge, wherein a sharp grooved surface interconnects a forward end of both blades and the deboning head and a handle connected to the rearward end of the blades. The sharp grooved surface is contoured to a rib of predetermined animal.

The invention discloses a plucker. The plucker comprises an outer barrel, an inner barrel and a base. The inner barrel is movably sleeved with the outer barrel, the inner barrel is of a porous structure, and the inner barrel is provided with multiple rubber protrusions. The outer bottom face of the inner barrel is fixedly connected with a rotary shaft, the rotary shaft is in transmission connection with a motor arranged in the base, the inner barrel is driven by the motor to rotate at high speed, at the moment, slaughtered poultry conducts centrifugal motion in the inner barrel, and at the moment, feathers of the poultry fall off due to the flapping effect of the rubber protrusions. The plucker is simple and reasonable in structure, unhairing can be achieved rapidly, and the whole plucker has a good cleaning function, and is not prone to be stained, comfortable for a user to use and more sanitary.

The invention discloses a plucker, which comprises a machine case, hacking rods made of a rubber or plastic material, a baffle plate, a cylinder, a plurality of rotating roller bodies, a lifting rotation roller body and a lifting cylinder, wherein the hacking rods are fixedly arranged on the rotating roller bodies and the lifting rotation roller body; a guide groove is formed in the machine case; the shaft of the lifting rotation roller body is in sliding fit with the guide groove; the rotating roller bodies and the lifting rotation roller body form a hacking space; the lifting rotation roller body and one rotation roller body form a door body; the lifting rotation roller body is driven to ascend by the lifting cylinder; water injection holes are formed in a top plate of the machine case; and hair outlet holes are formed in a bottom plate of the machine case. Due to the structure, after a chicken body and a duck body enter the hacking space, the length directions of the chicken body and the duck body are consistent with those of the roller bodies; the rotation speed of the rotation roller body of a lower hacking cavity is higher than that of the rotation roller body and the lifting rotation roller body of an upper hacking cavity; and under the condition that the chicken body and the duck body are continuously turned over, various parts can contact the hacking rods, so that the target of thoroughly unhairing can be reached.

Picking fingers suitable for use in automatic defeathering machines. The picking fingers are suitable for mounting to circular openings in a mounting plate. The picking finger includes an elastomeric picking finger body and a retainer for securing the picking finger to the mounting plate. Three embodiments are disclosed which provide for installation of the picking finger body from a back side of the mounting plate. Each embodiment features a different retainer component. A fourth embodiment is disclosed which provides for installation of the picking finger body from a front side of the mounting plate.

The invention provides a rapid feather plucker which plucks small or infant feathers of the killed poultry after the big feathers of the poultry is removed. The poultry feather plucker comprises a cylindrical shell, wherein one end of the cylindrical shell is fixed with a semi-circular stainless steel cap; the top end of the semi-circular stainless steel cap is provided with a round hole and eight suction sumps for sucking the small feathers of the poultry; an inner end of the cylindrical shell is provided with a micromotor; the middle of a lengthening shaft of the micromotor is provided with a suction pump blading; the other end of the operating shaft of the micromotor is provided with a semi-circular feather clipping five-claw blade tallying with the semi-circular stainless steel cap of the shell; and a drain outlet is arranged in the middle of the cylindrical shell. The plucker is simple to operate and efficient and clean and can improve the existing manual plucking efficiency by over 5 times.

This invention relates to a hub and belt assembly for driving a poultry de-feathering machine and more particularly to a multiple bearing heat dissipating hub driven by a serrated timing belt. The hub assembly incorporates seals along a drive shaft to reduce wear caused by dirt. The timing belt synchronizes multiple picking hubs and reduces the friction driving required. The combination of a heat dissipating hub and the placement of seals along the drive shaft within the hub minimize maintenance and replacement.

The invention discloses an automatic production line for poultry slaughtering and processing. The automatic production line comprises a drive chain arranged at the top of a frame and a hook assembly arranged on the drive chain and used for hanging poultry and is characterized in that the frame is sequentially provided with a water tank for containing water and located under the drive chain, a slaughter mechanism, a scalding mechanism, a hair removal mechanism and a viscera removal mechanism. The drive chain is provided with a connecting seat, and the connecting seat is rotatably connected to the drive chain via a rotating shaft. A lifting cylinder is mounted in the connecting seat and connected with the hook assembly. The lifting cylinder can make the hook assembly descend and extend intothe water tank, the slaughter mechanism, the scalding mechanism, the hair removal mechanism or the viscera removal mechanism. Compared with the prior art, the automatic production line combines the procedures of slaughtering, leaching, hair removal and viscera removal to achieve mechanized assembly line processing and improve processing efficiency and has the advantages of simple structure and lowequipment cost.

The present invention relates to the technical field of mechanical equipment, in particular to a defeathering device used for chicken farms and convenient for chicken feather collection. The device comprises a shell, an outer cylinder, a cleaning device, a defeathering device and a compression device; the upper end face of the shell is fixedly connected to the outer cylinder, and the defeatheringdevice is arranged inside the outer cylinder; the upper end face of the shell is fixedly connected to the defeathering device; the compression device is arranged inside the shell; the right end face of the shell is fixedly connected to the cleaning device; and a defeathering machine is arranged below the outer cylinder. In the invention, a water tank, an electric heating wire water pump and waterpipes are arranged. If the defeathering effect is poor due to a temperature reason, the water in the water tank can be heated by electric heating wires, then the water pump pumps out the hot water tocarry out heating and defeathering on chickens through the water pipes. The device ensures the defeathering effect, saves a great deal of time, improves the efficiency, saves the cost, has good practical benefit, and is worthy of popularization and use.

The invention discloses a system for rapidly removing down and hair roots of duck bodies. The system comprises an alkaline water pool, a dehairing shaft roller assembly and a saline water spray assembly, wherein the alkaline water pool is internally filled with alkaline water, and the concentration of sodium hydroxide in the alkaline water is 10-12%; the alkaline water pool is used for soaking pre-dehaired duck bodies; the dehairing shaft roller assembly comprises two shaft rollers rotating along the opposite directions, and is used for squeezing and rubbing the duck bodies subjected to alkaline water soaking; the saline water spray assembly comprises a spray nozzle, and saline water can be sprayed out from the spray nozzle; the duck bodies, which are squeezed and rubbed by the shaft rollers, can be cleaned and preserved by means of the sprayed saline water. The invention also discloses a method for rapidly removing the down and the hair roots of the duck bodies. The system and the method for rapidly removing the down and the hair roots of the duck bodies are rapid in speed, time-saving, labor-saving, non-toxic, harmless and thorough in hair removal, and also improve the brightnessof meat.

A tool and method of using are disclosed for field dressing big game. The tool has a tip sized for insertion into the anus of the animal and a set of barbs extending a radial distance beyond the tip. The tip and the barbs are mounted to a shank and handle. Inserting the tip and barbs into the rectum causes radial stretching of the rectal wall, and rotation of the tool causes ensnarement of the rectum on the barbs. The tool is retracted from the anus, pulling a section of rectum external, to be closed for the prevention of leakage of bodily waste matter.