30results about "Poultry skinning" patented technology

Device for separating the outer layers 2 from food portions 3, in particular for skinning poultry parts, with a separating device 20, which has a rotatably driven transport roller 16 for advancing the food portions 3 in a feed direction 17 and a blade 24 pointing in a feed direction 17, and with a hold-down device 5 for pressing the food portions onto the transport roller 16, characterized in that the blade 24 of the knife holder device 8 has a recessed contour 41 on its underside.

The invention discloses a quick sorting device and method for chicken wing processing, relates to the field of food processing and transportation, and solves the problem that sorting holes are blocked by soft tissues in the blood pretreatment and sorting process before fresh meat sorting. The rapid sorting device for chicken wing processing comprises a supporting shell, a draining and sorting structure is installed at the top end of the supporting shell, the draining and sorting structure pretreats chicken wings to drain blood, a cutting and dredging structure is arranged in the supporting shell, and the cutting and dredging structure performs sorting and cutting treatment on the chicken wings; according to the device, fresh meat such as chicken wings are threaded on the meat threading hook, bleeding water is drained through the crevasse, the X-shaped telescopic support moves to accelerate the draining speed through vibration, in addition, the X-shaped telescopic support drives the connecting extension rod to move when extending to further drive the turnover draining frame and the meat threading hook to turn over, so that the bleeding water is more smoothly drained through the bleeding port of the chicken wings, and the draining efficiency is improved. The blood draining effect of chicken wing pretreatment is improved.

The invention relates to a system and method for skinning and / or de-fatting an animal carcass while the animal carcass is being conveyed through a suspension rail system comprising a plurality of carabiners carrying the carcass, the method comprising: sensing the incoming animal carcass by means of a sensing device; using the resulting sensing data from the sensing device as control data by a control unit in controlling the movement of a first device while skinning and / or de-fatting the carcass by the first device, wherein the controlled movement comprises: setting the first device to an initial angular position and engaging the skin and / or fat of the incoming animal carcass at an engagement position; moving the first device along the animal carcass in a movement direction comprising a movement direction perpendicular to the conveying direction, while following the outer contour of the surface of the carcass and while adapting the angular position of the first device to the shape of the carcass so as to ensure a partial removal of the skin and / or fat.

The present invention relates to a system and method for skinning and / or de-fatting animal carcasses while they are being transported by an overhanging rail system having a plurality of shackles for hanging the carcasses, comprising: sensing an incoming animal carcass with a sensing device; and using sensing data obtained from the sensing device by a control unit as control data for controlling the movement of a first device when skinning and / or de-fatting the carcass with the first device, wherein the controlled movement includes setting the first device to an initial angular position and engaging the skin and / or fat of the incoming animal carcass in an engagement position; and moving the first device along the carcass in a movement direction that includes a movement direction perpendicular to the conveying direction while following the contour of the surface of the carcass, and simultaneously adapting the angular position of the first device to the shape of the carcass to ensure partial removal of the skin and / or fat.

A system and a method are provided for deskinning and / or defatting animal carcass while being conveyed by an overhang rails system carrying the carcass. The method includes: sensing, by a sensing device, an incoming animal carcass, using the resulting sensing data from the sensing device by a control unit in controlling a movement of a first device while deskinning and / or defatting the carcass by the first device. The controlled movement includes: setting the first device to an initial angular position and engaging the skin and / or fat of the incoming animal carcass at an engaging position; moving the first device in a movement direction including a movement direction perpendicular to the conveying direction along the animal carcass while following an outer profile of the surface of the carcass and simultaneously adapting the angular position of the first device to the shape of the carcass for partial removal of skin or fat.

Deskinning device for removing skin from a poultry leg product, comprising a first leg end which comprises at least a part of an ankle joint, and a second leg end opposite to the first leg end, the first leg end being arranged at a higher level than the second leg end, wherein the device comprises at least one skin removal assembly which is adapted to carry out a deskinning process, a first skinning roller rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein a first roller end is arranged at a higher level than a second roller end, a counter skinning member arranged adjacent said first skinning roller, a gap between the first skinning roller and the counter skinning member, wherein the skin removal assembly is adapted to pull the skin of the poultry leg product into the gap and towards the first roller end.

An endless conveyor belt may include a belt body having a belt longitudinal axis and an exterior side. A plurality of protrusions project from the exterior side of the belt body and extend across a width of the belt body substantially transversely to the belt longitudinal axis. A plurality of corresponding valleys are defined between each of the plurality of protrusions and extend across the width of the belt body substantially transversely to the belt longitudinal axis. When a piece of poultry is positioned on the exterior side of the belt body, substantially only a skin portion of the piece of poultry is received within the valleys, and an underlying fat portion and a meat portion of the piece of poultry remains disposed substantially above a top surface of the plurality of protrusions.

To provide a shaping or cutting machine, especially a skinner which rapidly stop a gripping roller so as to prevent a hand of an operator from being dragged by a blade.SOLUTION: In a machine, an operator hand-feeds a material to be cut or shaped toward a blade. The machine includes: hand proximity detection devices which are provided for operator safety; a machine-vision across a monitored volume before the blade; and conduction sensing devices. The blade is mounted on a rapidly retractable frame. Power from release of a spring physically moves the blade to a safe position if a hand is sensed. A gripping roller is driven by a rapidly stoppable motor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

An endless conveyor belt may include a belt body having a belt longitudinal axis and an exterior side. A plurality of protrusions project from the exterior side of the belt body and extend across a width of the belt body substantially transversely to the belt longitudinal axis. A plurality of corresponding valleys are defined between each of the plurality of protrusions and extend across the width of the belt body substantially transversely to the belt longitudinal axis. When a piece of poultry is positioned on the exterior side of the belt body, substantially only a skin portion of the piece of poultry is received within the valleys, and an underlying fat portion and a meat portion of the piece of poultry remains disposed substantially above a top surface of the plurality of protrusions.

The invention discloses a rotating disc type chicken claw peeling device, and belongs to the technical field of poultry food processing equipment. The device comprises a chicken foot transmission part and a peeling execution part, the chicken foot transmission part is provided with a thick rotating disc, a thin rotating disc, a transmission motor and a double-sided tooth synchronous belt transmission system, stable conveying and positioning of chicken feet can be achieved, and the device has an excellent overload prevention function. The peeling execution part is provided with a middle peeling hair brush roller, a root peeling hair brush roller, a double-row rubber rod roller and a three-row rubber rod roller, and different parts of the chicken feet can be subjected to differential peeling treatment. The turntable can be replaced according to the size of chicken feet, the center distance is adjustable, and various chicken foot processing requirements are met. The device adopts an open structure and is convenient to clean and maintain, the rotating speed of a transmission and execution motor is adjustable, the peeling strength and time can be accurately controlled, and the complete meat quality of the chicken feet is furthest protected while efficient peeling is performed. The chicken claw peeling device is reasonable in structure, flexible to operate, uniform in peeling and small in damage, and is suitable for a chemical peeling procedure in large-scale processing of chicken claws.

Device (10), designed and equipped for the automatic processing of eviscerated poultry carcasses or parts thereof, in particular front halves of the poultry carcasses, characterized by a frame (11), a transport unit (12) mounted on the frame (11) with a continuously driven transport means (13), at least one holding device (14) attached to the transport means (13), which is designed and equipped to hold the poultry carcass or the part thereof during transport in the transport direction T and during processing at a processing station (15), and at least one processing station (15) for processing the poultry carcasses or the parts thereof, namely a knife arrangement (16) arranged on the frame (11), which is designed and equipped to cut the back skin of the poultry carcass or the part thereof located in the area of ​​effect of the knife arrangement (16),wherein a knife (17) of the knife arrangement (16) is designed and configured to be movable from a waiting position to a cutting position and back for cutting the back skin, wherein each holding device (14) in the area of ​​operation of the knife arrangement (16) is in a position in which the central axis M of the holding device (14) is oriented transversely to the transport direction T, and wherein the knife (17) of the knife arrangement (16) is arranged laterally to the transport means (13) for cutting the back skin and is designed to perform the movement from the waiting position to the cutting position as a cutting movement and back transversely to the transport direction T of the poultry carcass or part thereof to be processed.

1. A pre-evisceration device for preparing a poultry carcass for evisceration, the poultry carcass including a head cut off, a neck and at least a portion of the neck skin, and a viscera pack including at least the esophagus and crop, the pre-evisceration device comprising a neck skin remover configured to remove at least a portion of the neck skin from the poultry carcass prior to evisceration of the viscera pack.

An apparatus (10) for removing the skin of poultry pieces includes a frame (12) for supporting an infeed conveyor (14) for transporting and feeding poultry pieces to be skinned to a skinning station (16) located closely adjacent the downstream end of the conveyor. An outfeed conveyor (18) is also supported by the frame to carry the skinned poultry pieces away from the skinning station (16) for further processing. The infeed and outfeed conveyors are carried by a lift mounting systems (40) and (42) to mount the conveyors to the underlying frame (12). The lift mounting systems (40 / 42) function to shift the infeed and outfeed conveyors between an in-use lowered position closely adjacent the skinning station (16) and a retracted position raised above and shifted longitudinally away from the skinning station to provide access to the conveyors (14 / 18), as well as access to the skinning station (16).

A machine designed to extract calluses from the footpads of poultry—primarily chickens—comprising a cabinet on the inside of which is mounted a pair of chains between which are mounted a plurality of trays having a circular through-opening in the bottom face thereof. Operatively mounted downstream of the chains is a pair of toothed shafts with motorization means and mounted above this region is a smaller chain which is also motorized. Mounted on said chain is a plurality of assemblies comprised of a base (4) and, mounted thereon, a piston (5), the position of which corresponds to the position of the opening (A) in a tray (B) when the latter is below the region of the smaller chain, wherein the piston (5) and the opening (A) are vertically aligned with each other.

An automated chicken deboner system and method. The system includes a conveyor system to move the front-half of the chicken through the different deboning stations, including a loading station where the bird is placed on a cone, a press station to align the front half of the chicken on the cone, a skin cutter station to cut the skin and fat located at the base of the neck of the chicken, a wing cutter station to remove the wings, a scapula cutter station to separate the breast meat from the scapula, a wishbone cutter station to separate the breast meat from the wishbone, a breast plow station to separate the breast meat from the ribs, a wishbone paddle station to further separate the breast meat from the wishbone, a breast removal station to completely remove the breast meat, and a tender cutter station to remove the two tenders.

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.

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

A system for processing carcass parts of slaughtered poultry including at least a back portion and a leg portion connected thereto comprises a conveyor for suspending and moving the carcass in a conveying direction, and a groin skin cutting device for cutting the groin skin as the carcass parts pass the groin skin cutting device, the cutter having an elongated base with a cutting edge, a piercing tip at an upstream end of the cutter, the cutter being positioned and configured such that as the carcass parts move in the conveying direction, the piercing tip pierces the groin skin to form a piercing hole and the cutter advances under the groin skin, and continued movement of the carcass parts in the conveying direction results in the groin skin being cut by the cutting edge starting from the piercing hole and forming a cut in the groin skin.

The invention relates to a system for processing a slaughtered poultry carcass part at least comprising a back portion and legs, comprising a conveyor for moving the carcass part, suspended, in a conveying direction, and comprising a groin skin cutting device for cutting groin skin while the carcass part is moved past said cutting device, comprising a cutter having an elongate base portion having a cutting edge, a puncturing tip at an upstream end of the cutter, the cutter positioned and configured such that, the puncturing tip punctures groin skin upon movement of the carcass part in the conveying direction thereby creating a puncture hole so that the cutter enters underneath the groin skin, wherein the groin skin is cut by the cutting edge making a cut through the groin skin starting from the puncture hole, as a result of the continued movement of the carcass part.

A skinning device for removing skin from poultry leg products comprising a first leg end including at least a portion of the ankle and a second leg end opposite the first leg end, the first leg end being positioned at a higher level than the second leg end, the device comprising: a first skinning roller rotatable about a rotation axis, the first roller end being positioned at a higher level than the second roller end; a counter-skinning member positioned adjacent to the first skinning roller; and a gap between the first skinning roller and the counter-skinning member, and comprising at least one skin removal assembly adapted to perform the skinning process, the skin removal assembly being adapted to draw the skin of the poultry leg product into the gap and towards the first roller end.

A system for processing carcass parts of slaughtered poultry including at least a back portion and a leg portion connected thereto comprises a conveyor for suspending and moving the carcass in a conveying direction, and a groin skin cutting device for cutting the groin skin as the carcass parts pass the groin skin cutting device, the cutter having an elongated base with a cutting edge, a piercing tip at an upstream end of the cutter, the cutter being positioned and configured such that as the carcass parts move in the conveying direction, the piercing tip pierces the groin skin to form a piercing hole and the cutter advances under the groin skin, and continued movement of the carcass parts in the conveying direction results in the groin skin being cut by the cutting edge starting from the piercing hole and forming a cut in the groin skin.

An apparatus for removing a flesh portion from a poultry carcass comprising an elongate platform having a conveyor that is movable along a length of the platform. The conveyor comprises one or more poultry carcass attachments adapted for coupling the conveyor to the poultry carcass such that the poultry carcass is orientated with a breast flesh portion of the poultry carcass facing away from an upper surface of the platform. The apparatus further comprises at least one of a first cutting assembly configured to remove a breast flesh portion, and / or a second cutting assembly configured to remove a leg flesh portion. The first cutting assembly and / or second cutting assembly are arranged on the upper surface of the platform adjacent the conveyor whereby movement of the conveyor in a forward direction enables the first cutting assembly and / or the second cutting assembly to remove the flesh portion of the breast and / or leg.

An endless conveyor belt may include a belt body having a belt longitudinal axis and an outer side. A plurality of protrusions protrude from the outside of the belt body and extend across the width of the belt body substantially transverse to the belt longitudinal axis. A plurality of corresponding valleys are defined between each of the plurality of protrusions and extend across the width of the belt body substantially transverse to the belt longitudinal axis. When poultry pieces are placed on the outside of the belt body, substantially only skin portions of the poultry pieces are received within the valleys, and underlying fat portions and meat portions of the poultry pieces remain substantially above the top surfaces of the plurality of protrusions.

A shaping or cutting machine, especially a skinner, at which an operator hand-feeds material to be cut or shaped toward a blade. Hand proximity detection devices are provided for operator safety; machine-vision across a surveilled volume before the blade, and conduction sensing devices. The blade is mounted on a rapidly retractable frame. Power from release of a spring physically moves the blade to a safe position if a hand is sensed. A gripping roller is driven by a rapidly stoppable motor.

A machine designed to extract calluses from the footpads of poultry-primarily chickens-comprising a cabinet on the inside of which is mounted a pair of chains between which are mounted a plurality of trays having a circular through-opening in the bottom face thereof. Operatively mounted downstream of the chains is a pair of toothed shafts with motorization means and mounted above this region is a smaller chain which is also motorized. Mounted on said chain is a plurality of assemblies comprised of a base (4) and, mounted thereon, a piston (5), the position of which corresponds to the position of the opening (A) in a tray (B) when the latter is below the region of the smaller chain, wherein the piston (5) and the opening (A) are vertically aligned with each other.

The disclosure provides a device deskinning a poultry part, particularly a poultry leg, being conveyed by a conveyor along a path of conveyance. The device comprises a first roller and a second roller. The first roller is rotatable about a first rotation axis. The first roller is associated with a gap and configured for entrapping and drawing a portion of the skin of the poultry part in the gap. The second roller is rotatable about a second rotation axis. The second rotation axis is transverse to the first rotation axis. The first roller and the second roller are arranged on opposite lateral sides of the path of conveyance to define a passage therebetween for the poultry part to pass through while being conveyed by the conveyor. The passage is such that the first roller and the second roller engage the poultry part as it passes through the passage.

The present invention discloses a rapid sorting device and method for processing chicken wings, which relates to the field of food processing and transportation, and solves the problems of pre-treatment of blood and water before sorting of meat and fresh food and blockage of sorting holes by soft tissues during the sorting process. The rapid sorting device and method for processing chicken wings include a support housing, and a water drainage and sorting structure is installed at the top of the support housing. The water drainage and sorting structure pre-treats the chicken wings to drain blood and water. A cutting and guiding structure is arranged inside the support housing, and the cutting and guiding structure sorts and cuts the chicken wings; in the present invention, meat and fresh food such as chicken wings are put on meat hooks, and blood and water are drained through a break. The X-shaped telescopic support moves actively and accelerates the drainage speed through vibration. In addition, when the X-shaped telescopic support expands and moves, it drives the connecting extension rod to move, further driving the rotatable water drainage rack and the meat hook to turn, so that the blood outlet of the chicken wings drains blood and water more smoothly, improving the effect of pre-treating the chicken wings to drain blood and water.

The present invention is a method for cutting a turkey thigh. The method involves skinning the thigh to reveal uniform meat texture on the top part and uneven meat texture indicative of the bottom part. Next, four cuts are made at predetermined locations. These cuts include two longitudinal cuts, made with a handheld knife, designed to create left and right boneless turkey thigh parts; and two transverse cuts, made with a band saw, designed to form top and bottom turkey thigh parts, which contain the femur's proximal and distal ends respectively. Key parameters are applied to ensure accurate cut locations, such as distances from the center of the femur bone, are used for the longitudinal cuts; and distances from visually established top and bottom lines, are used to make transverse cuts. The application of the method results in the creation of the center-cut bone-in turkey thigh part.

An endless conveyor belt may include a belt body having a belt longitudinal axis and an exterior side. A plurality of protrusions project from the exterior side of the belt body and extend across a width of the belt body substantially transversely to the belt longitudinal axis. A plurality of corresponding valleys are defined between each of the plurality of protrusions and extend across the width of the belt body substantially transversely to the belt longitudinal axis. When a piece of poultry is positioned on the exterior side of the belt body, substantially only a skin portion of the piece of poultry is received within the valleys, and an underlying fat portion and a meat portion of the piece of poultry remains disposed substantially above a top surface of the plurality of protrusions.

Pre-evisceration device Pre-evisceration device for preparing the evisceration of a poultry carcass, wherein the poultry carcass is beheaded and comprises: at least a part of the neck and the neck skin, a viscera pack comprising at least the esophagus and the crop, wherein the pre-evisceration device comprises a neck deskinner configured to remove at least a part of the neck skin from the poultry carcass prior to evisceration of the viscera pack.