57results about "Poultry shackles" patented technology

A system and method for transferring poultry legs from a supply conveyor to a discharge conveyor. The poultry transfer unit comprises a transfer body configured for continuously moving. The poultry transfer unit comprises at least one carrier engaging to the transfer body, such that the at least one carrier in a transporting mode moves along with the transfer body and in a buffering mode moves relative to the transfer body. The at least one carrier comprises a gripper for receiving the poultry leg. The at least one carrier further comprises resistance means having a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor is driven by a motion of the carrier relative to the transfer body, and wherein the stator is stationary with respect to the carrier.

The invention provides a system for suspending poultry through feet in a shackle of a transfer line. The system comprises a supply line having at least one first carrier for poultry, a movable takeover device for receiving legs of poultry and for transferring poultry from the at least one first carrier of the supply line to a shackle in a transfer line at a transfer position, in the transfer position, the shackle, the movable takeover device and the at least one first carrier of the supply line are aligned, where the movable takeover device is arranged to engage the leg of the poultry at the transfer position in order to move the foot above the shackle and then move downward to provide the leg into the shackle, after which the shackle is transferred to the transfer position. The movable takeover device is disengaged from the poultry legs, wherein the system comprises pushing means for pushing the poultry from the at least one first carrier of the supply line to the movable takeover device when the poultry is in the transfer position.

A system and method for object processing using magnetic levitation includes moving carriers with drive magnets across an array of planar motors. Food items on the carriers are moved through processing steps. The system determines the weight of multiple food items and coordinates and arranges for the batching of food items totaling a desired weight from an assembly of available food items and presents the selected food items to an operator for further processing. The system moves the carriers to engage the food items with processing equipment, such as for attaching to poultry shackles, or for cutting by a filet machine.

To provide a poultry thigh meat incision device that can prevent remaining of a bone fragment to the deboned poultry thigh meat, and can improve the yield of the deboned poultry thigh meat, and provide a poultry thigh meat automatic incision method.SOLUTION: A poultry thigh meat incision device includes an ankle holding part 2 for holding an ankle of poultry thigh meat M, a knife unit 3 having an incision knife 23, a stabbing drive unit 4 for driving the knife unit 3, a thigh meat pressing part 5 for pressing the surface of the poultry thigh meat M, and a moving part 9 for moving the ankle holding part 2. The knife unit 3 includes: a knife holding part 22 for holding the incision knife 23 so that a blade edge may be directed in an incision moving direction of the incision knife 23 and in the side opposite to the ankle holding part 2, and holding the incision knife 23 in the front-back direction in a displacing manner; and a coil spring 25 for elastically biasing the incision knife 23 in the front-back direction of the incision knife 23, and toward the bone of the poultry thigh meat M.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A system for hanging poultry by the legs and feet in a shackle of a conveyor line. A supply line with at least one first carrier for the poultry. A movable take over device can receive the legs of the poultry and transfers the poultry from the at least one first carrier to the shackle in the conveyor line at a transfer location. The shackle, the movable take over device, and the at least one first carrier can be aligned. The movable take over device can be arranged to engage the legs of the poultry at the transfer location, move the feet above the shackle, move the feet downwards into the shackle, and disengage the legs. Pushing equipment pushes the poultry from the at least one first carrier to the movable take over device when the poultry is at the transfer location.

The invention provides an ultrasonic knife assisted poultry carcass multi-part flexible humanoid segmentation device and method, and relates to the technical field of poultry raw meat pretreatment intelligent processing, and the device comprises a poultry carcass online circulating conveying module which comprises a vertical double-track annular guide rail conveying line and a special-shaped annular guide rail; the poultry carcass multi-part anti-deviation clamping module is mounted on the vertical double-rail annular guide rail conveying line and is used for fixing poultry carcasses at multiple points, controlling a clamp to loosen under the action of the special-shaped annular guide rail after the poultry carcasses pass through the cutting stations, and respectively collecting poultry carcass parts; the poultry carcass scanning imaging and cutting path planning module is used for carrying out scanning imaging on poultry carcasses, generating a cutting path planning instruction set according to image data obtained through scanning and sending the cutting path planning instruction set to the lower computer; and the ultrasonic knife four-dimensional movement flexible humanoid segmentation module comprises a lower computer and a four-axis platform ultrasonic knife segmentation device, and the lower computer plans an instruction set according to the cutting path and controls the four-axis platform ultrasonic knife segmentation device to carry out flexible humanoid segmentation on multiple parts of the poultry carcass.

An articulating, rotating poultry shackle. The shackle has a central member conventionally coupled to a picking line of the processing facility, a fixed hanging portion rigidly coupled to the central member, and an articulating hanging portion rotatably coupled to the fixed hanging portion. A mounting assembly coupled to the central member rotatably attaches the central member to the picking line such that at least three degrees of rotational freedom are provided to the articulating hanging portion of the shackle.

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.

A system and method for rehanging poultry (1) which is suspended by the head (2) in a first shackle (3) of a first shackle conveyor to a second shackle (4) of a second shackle conveyor in which the poultry (1) is or will be suspended by the legs (6), wherein the system comprises a leg positioning unit (5) arranged to support the poultry (1) at the legs (6) while the poultry (1) is maintained suspended by the head (2) in the first shackle (3) of the first shackle conveyor, a movable takeover unit (7) designed to operate on the legs (6) of the poultry (1) and arranged to be operational at least when the leg positioning unit (5) supports the poultry (1) at the legs (6), and wherein at least the movable takeover unit (7) is movable towards the second shackle (4) of the second shackle conveyor and is arranged to move the legs (6) of the poultry (1) into the second shackle (4) of the second shackle conveyor.

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.

To provide a leg meat detachment device and method capable of improving quality of leg meat of deboned poultry, improving a detachment yield of a meat part from a shank, and further improving a processing speed.SOLUTION: A leg meat detachment device 1 comprises: an ankle holding part 2 for holding an ankle A of leg meat M of poultry; a meat pressing part 3 for pressing a meat part Mp in the vicinity of the ankle A; a meat insertion part 5 which is inserted into a space between the meat part Mp pressed by the meat pressing part 3 and the shank, and detaches the meat part Mp from the shank; and a meat cutting part 6 for cutting the meat part Mp in the vicinity of the ankle A .SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

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.

A poultry processing system has a cleaning station, a scalding station, a dehairing base station, and a conveyor line for supporting poultry bodies passing through these processing stations in a head-down manner. The cleaning station includes a plurality of spray manifolds coupled to a cleaning liquid supply, each of the plurality of spray manifolds having a plurality of spaced apart spray nozzles for directing cleaning liquid onto the slaughtered body from the tail to the head as the slaughtered body is conveyed through the cleaning station, in this way, dirt, faeces and other foreign matter can be removed from the slaughtered body before the slaughtered body is conveyed to the scalding station and the dehairing station.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for processing poultry carcasses (11) with a slaughter opening (13) located between the legs (12), the apparatus comprising a drivable transport conveyor (15) for continuously transporting the poultry carcasses (11), at least one holding device (17) arranged on the transport conveyor (15) for holding the poultry carcasses (11), and a processing station (18) arranged in the area of ​​the transport conveyor (15), the processing station (18) being rotatable on a rotation axis (19). The poultry carcass (11) comprises an engagement base (20) and at least one engagement element (21) configured and adapted to at least partially engage with the slaughter opening (13) of the poultry carcass (11), and while the at least one engagement element (21) is at least partially engaged with the poultry carcass (11), the slaughter opening (13) is expanded while continuous conveyance is maintained with the generation of torque, and the engagement base (20) is configured and adapted to receive the torque. When the torque exceeds a predetermined torque, the engagement base (20) is automatically released from the slaughter opening (13) by rotation (R) of the engagement base (20) about the rotation axis (19).

The invention discloses an AI intelligent flexible craw opening process method. The method comprises the following steps that poultry is conveyed through a conveying chain; when the poultry is conveyed to the crop AI visual positioning device, after the poultry is sensed by the crop AI visual positioning device, a light source and a camera are triggered to expose and photograph the crop part of the poultry, the crop position values (the horizontal value X0 and the height value Z0) are calculated by adopting an AI algorithm model, and meanwhile, the position value A0 of a current conveying chain is latched by adopting a production line position synchronizing device; the control system averagely distributes the shearing tasks of sensing, photographing, identifying and positioning OK to a plurality of craw opening stations; the control system controls the craw opening mechanism corresponding to the craw opening station to work according to the horizontal value X0 and the height value Z0, a profiling clamp in the craw opening mechanism captures the neck part of the poultry, the neck part of the poultry is clamped after the posture of the poultry is adjusted, and in the period of synchronously following the poultry for a certain distance, the craw opening station is started; a scissor module in the craw opening mechanism is controlled to cut off the esophagus at the upper end of the craw, and after cutting is completed, the craw opening mechanism is controlled to reset.

To provide a meat separator which can efficiently and stably peel a meat part from a bone part of meat with a bone and a meat part peeling device for meat with a bone.SOLUTION: A meat separator contacts a peripheral face of a bone part b of meat with a bone which is relatively moved, for peeling a meat part m adhered to the bone part b. The meat separator has a plurality of clamp blocks. The clamp blocks each has a chipping off and contacting part 15At, 15Bt for contacting the peripheral face of the bone part b, and the respective chipping off and contacting parts 15At, 15Bt cooperate for holding the peripheral face of the bone part b. At least one clamp block has an energizing function part for allowing at least a part of the chipping off and contacting parts of the clamp block, to be displaced in a plurality of directions along an outer shape of the bone part b, and elastically pushing back the displacement in a direction separated from the bone part.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

A system (100) and method for processing articles using magnetic levitation includes moving a carrier (110) having drive magnets over an array of planar motors (104). The food piece (116) on the carrier is moved through the processing step. The system determines the weight of a number of food pieces and coordinates and arranges batches of food pieces totaling the desired weight from the assembly of available food pieces and presents selected food pieces to an operator (210) for further processing. The system moves the carrier to engage the food piece with a processing device, such as for attachment to a poultry shackle (242) or for cutting by a slicer.

To provide a system for hanging poultry with legs with improved system operation reliability.SOLUTION: A system 1 is for hanging poultry 2 in a shackle 4 of a conveyor line 5 with leg parts 3 and feet 3'. The system 1 includes: a supply line 6 including at least one first carrier 7 for the poultry 2; and a movable delivery device 8 that receives the leg parts 3 of the poultry 2. The movable delivery device transfers the poultry 2 from the first carrier 7 to the shackle 4 at a transfer position in which the shackle 4, the movable delivery device 8, and the first carrier 7 are aligned in one line. The movable delivery device 8 engages the leg parts 3 of the poultry 2 at the transfer position, moves the feet 3' to a part above the shackle 4, then moves the feet 3' downward and puts the legs 3 inside the shackle 4, and then, is arranged so as to release the engagement with the leg parts 3 of the poultry. An extruder 9 is provided and extrudes the poultry 2 from the first carrier 7 to the movable delivery device 8 when the poultry 2 is at the transfer position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A system and method for transferring poultry legs from a supply conveyor to a discharge conveyor. The poultry transfer unit comprises a transfer body configured for continuously moving. The poultry transfer unit comprises at least one carrier engaging to the transfer body, such that the at least one carrier in a transporting mode moves along with the transfer body and in a buffering mode moves relative to the transfer body. The at least one carrier comprises a gripper for receiving the poultry leg. The at least one carrier further comprises resistance means having a rotor and a stator, wherein the rotor is driven by a motion of the carrier relative to the transfer body, and wherein the stator is stationary with respect to the carrier.

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).

To provide a system for hanging poultry with legs with improved system operation reliability.SOLUTION: A system 1 is for hanging poultry 2 in a shackle 4 of a conveyor line 5 with leg parts 3 and feet 3'. The system 1 includes: a supply line 6 including at least one first carrier 7 for the poultry 2; and a movable delivery device 8 that receives the leg parts 3 of the poultry 2. The movable delivery device transfers the poultry 2 from the first carrier 7 to the shackle 4 at a transfer position in which the shackle 4, the movable delivery device 8, and the first carrier 7 are aligned in one line. The movable delivery device 8 engages the leg parts 3 of the poultry 2 at the transfer position, moves the feet 3' to a part above the shackle 4, then moves the feet 3' downward and puts the legs 3 inside the shackle 4, and then, is arranged so as to release the engagement with the leg parts 3 of the poultry. An extruder 9 is provided and extrudes the poultry 2 from the first carrier 7 to the movable delivery device 8 when the poultry 2 is at the transfer position.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A poultry leg meat deboning device is configured to perform a separation of a meat part from a femur with respect to a poultry leg meat to which a peeling off of the meat part has been performed until a side of a knee joint of the femur in a bone-in poultry leg meat which has been cut from a femur of a poultry carcass. The poultry leg meat deboning device includes: an ankle holding part configured to hold an ankle of the poultry leg meat.

The present invention relates to a shackle for processing hanging poultry comprising a poultry catching element; a suspension rod; and a fastening hook; wherein one side of the suspension rod is pivotably connected with a pivotable connection with the fastening hook and the opposite side of the suspension rod is moveably coupled with the poultry catching element by a moveable coupling. The invention also provides a method for attaching a shackle for processing hanging poultry on an overhead conveyor.

The present invention relates to an arrangement, an apparatus and a method for conveying poultry. The arrangement according to the invention is designed to transfer slaughter poultry between conveying lines in a poultry-processing plant and comprises at least one rotary machine (10) for conveying slaughter poultry in a suspended state along a curved conveying path with a plurality of suspension mounts (13), each designed for retaining a poultry carcass (12) by both legs, and also comprises a linear-motor conveying device (16) with a guide rail (18) which comprises a linear drive, forms a circulating conveying path (17) and has a plurality of runner elements (19), arranged for movement separately in each case along the guide rail (18) by means of the linear drive, and also retaining elements (20), each designed for accommodating a leg (21) of the poultry, wherein in each case one of the retaining elements (20) is arranged on each of the runner elements (19), wherein the rotary machine (11) and the linear-motor conveying device (16) are arranged such that, in a transfer region (22), the curved conveying path at least partially overlaps with a curved portion of the circulating conveying path (17) in order for the slaughter poultry to be transferred between the conveying lines.

The application discloses an automatic chicken hanging device, which comprises a conveying system, a suspension rail system arranged above the conveying system, and a chicken grabbing system arranged on the conveying system and used for pronging the legs of standing live chickens and hanging the live chickens on hooks of the suspension rail system. The application can hang at least ten live chickens on the suspension rail system at a time, significantly improves the live chicken hanging efficiency, greatly simplifies the live chicken hanging operation difficulty, omits a key operation step of directly grabbing the live chickens from a chicken coop or clamping the legs of the live chickens, and can more smoothly carry out the live chicken hanging, and saves a large amount of manpower and labor cost.

A method of mechanically removing skin from animal parts that have a bone part extending therein, including moving the animal parts, suspended on shackles depending from an overhead conveyor, along a path of travel and cutting the part to separate the skin therefrom. The part moves into a skinning station in which the part is urged into engagement with skinning rolls. The skinning rolls are rotated and engage and draw the skin of the part therebetween. The skin is progressively pulled downwardly and away from underlying meat of the animal part as the part moves forwardly along its path of travel.

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 present invention relates to a device (10) for changing the axial orientation of foodstuffs (30), comprising a base body (11) with a product section (12) for hanging foodstuffs (30) by means of at least one holding element (13) attachable to the product section (12) and a transport section (14) for attaching the device (10) to a conveying device (15), wherein the device (10) comprises a rotary mechanism (17) configured for rotating the product section (12) and a release element (20) variable between at least a first release position (18) and a second release position (19), comprising at least one release section (21) and at least one transmission element (22) connected to the at least one release element (20), wherein the at least one transmission element (22) is operatively connected to the product section (12) in such a way thatthat at least when the triggering element (20) changes from the first triggering position (18) to the second triggering position (19), a change in the product section (12) is formed by means of the at least one transmission element (22) for at least partial axial rotation of the orientation of the product section (12). Furthermore, the invention relates to a corresponding device (100) for conveying foodstuffs (30).

The invention relates to the technical field of poultry product rough machining, in particular to food processing cutting equipment which comprises a base, a back frame is slidably connected to the inner side of the base, a grabbing clamp is arranged at the top of the back frame, a pressing frame is slidably connected to the inner side of the base, and a transmission frame is arranged at the top of the right side of the base. The top of the transmission frame is provided with a cutting assembly, the rear side of the base is fixedly connected with a side frame, the inner side of the side frame is fixedly connected with a vertical guide rail, the front side of the vertical guide rail is provided with an electric sliding block, and the front side of the electric sliding block is fixedly connected with a slitting assembly. The cutting equipment for food processing has the working mode that the equipment can be rapidly fixed and limited on a poultry processing hanging frame, the equipment can be completely cut open or cut open along the abdomen according to needs, meanwhile, bone tissue is not prone to being clamped when being cut, and the cutting efficiency is improved. And when opening cutting is carried out, excessive damage is not prone to occurring.

The invention belongs to the technical field of chicken foot processing equipment, and particularly relates to a chicken foot clamp which comprises a lower die and two fixing arms, a groove used for containing chicken feet is formed in the upper end of the lower die and comprises a containing groove corresponding to the shanks of the chicken feet, and the two fixing arms are symmetrically arranged on the two sides of the containing groove and rotationally connected with the lower die; claw parts extending inwards are arranged at the upper ends of the fixing arms, and the two fixing arms can swing inwards so that the claw parts can puncture and fix the skin and flesh below the large bones of the shanks. The lower die is provided with the containing groove matched with the shank of the chicken foot, and accurate positioning and stable supporting of the shank are achieved. Meanwhile, the claw parts at the upper ends of the fixing arms are used for puncturing from the two sides of the shank and locking the skin and flesh below the shank thigh. The problem that skin and meat are pulled and stripped along with the big bones in the subsequent big bone removing procedure is effectively avoided, the skin and meat loss rate is greatly reduced, and then the overall efficiency of chicken claw bone removing processing and the finished product quality are improved.