358results about "Poultry transferring/conveying devices" patented technology

Apparatus for transferring poultry carcasses from a first overhead conveyor to a second overhead conveyor, including a transfer wheel rotatable about a shaft and disposed between the first and the second overhead conveyors. The apparatus also includes a receipt point and a discharge point, the receipt point being disposed between the first overhead conveyor and the transfer wheel, the discharge point being disposed between the transfer wheel and the second overhead conveyor, and the receipt and discharge points are disposed on a centerline of the transfer wheel. The apparatus further includes a plurality of holders, each holder being configured to receive one of the carcasses from the first overhead conveyor at the receipt point and to discharge the carcass to the second overhead conveyor at the discharge point. Each holder has a first orientation at the receipt point and a second orientation at the discharge point, and the first and second orientations are relative to the centerline and are the same.

The invention relates to conveyor system (1) for conveying packaging trays (2), for food products for example, from one or more import stations (3) to one or more export stations (4). The conveyor system is provided with an endless conveyor track comprising a rail (5), a multiplicity of trolleys which are movably connected to the rail (5), and a multiplicity of tray carriers (7) which are each coupled to the rail (5) via at least one trolley. Each tray carrier (7) is provided with a support member, preferably a support platform, configured for supporting at least one packaging tray. The use of a conveyor system (1) of this type for conveying packaging trays has the advantage over the use of a roll track, for example, that the system takes up relatively little floor space. Preferably, the import stations (3) and the export stations (4) are provided with an import device and export device respectively for feeding, in a position with a substantially horizontal orientation, the packaging trays into and out of the tray carriers. This allows open trays to be conveyed.

The present invention relates to a slaughtering installation for processing poultry which installation is adapted to be used in combination with a conveying assembly (40) for conveying poultry which is suspended from their legs in a transport direction T. The slaughtering installation comprising a killing device with poultry positioning means for positioning the neck region of the poultry suspended from the conveying assembly, the killing device further comprising cutting means for cutting into the neck and thereby opening at least one blood vessel in the neck region of the poultry. According to the invention, the positioning means comprise a back neck guide (54) along which the back side of the neck of the poultry is guided, and a breast neck guide (53) along which the breast side of the neck of the poultry is guided.

Method for treating a large number of meat products, in particular slaughtered poultry or parts thereof, in which an additive is added to the meat products. The meat products are supplied to additive-adding means using a conveyor means, the conveyor means being designed to feed the meat products sequentially in groups or separately. The additive-adding means subject each meat product or each group of meat products to an additive-adding treatment which is adapted to the corresponding meat product or to the corresponding group of meant products.

A poultry chiller 100 has a hanger 140 suspended from the upper portion of the tank 102 that supports the bearing block 160 of the auger shaft 112 between the auger blades. A conical bird deflector 175 is mounted on the auger shaft and radially deflects the birds away from the bearing block as the birds are urged across the bearing block.

A device (10) and method for clamping or otherwise securing an esophagus between the crop and certain internal organs, including the viscera, and substantially simultaneously cutting or otherwise separating, or weakening for subsequent predictable separation, the esophagus at or near the clamped location, thereby avoiding pulling apart the crop and the resulting contamination of the carcass.

A system for measuring physical properties of a workpiece in motion which includes a conveyance assembly for conveying the workpiece, a scanning assembly for scanning the workpiece, and a measurement assembly for measuring at least one physical property of the workpiece while the workpiece is in motion.

The invention relates to a processing device (210) for processing slaughtered and plucked poultry carcasses (152), having multiple processing devices (21) that are equipped to transport poultry carcasses (152) separately from a main conveying device (302) for processing purposes using a processing retaining means (820) which can be moved on a circumferential path. The processing device (210) has transfer stations (60; 51-66) which are arranged in a row along a main conveying line (20) in which the poultry carcasses (152) are conveyed in a suspended manner using support devices (402). Each processing device (21) is paired with a transfer station (60; 61-66) formed by a transfer pair (601) which has two rotational transferring devices (602, 652). The first rotational transferring device (602) removes poultry carcasses (152) from the support devices (402) and transfers the poultry carcasses to the processing retaining means (820) of the processing device (21). The second rotational transferring device (652) removes the processed poultry carcasses (152) from the processing retaining means (820) and transfers the poultry carcasses to the support devices (402). Each support device (402) has a pair (401) of supports (41, 42) with receiving portions (40.1, 40.2) for limbs (11, 12) of the poultry carcasses (152) and comprises a support controller (410). Each support (41, 42) is equipped with a controllable retaining device (403; 405) which is connected to the support controller (410) via a control element (444, 454) that controls a retaining part of the limb receiving portion (40.1, 40.2). In an open position of the controllable retaining part, the limb receiving portion (40.1, 40.2) is open so that the poultry carcass limbs (11, 12) are inserted and removed without being clamped, and the limb receiving portion contacts the poultry carcass limbs (11, 12) only in a closed position of the retaining part. The poultry processing device (21) has a processing controller to which the processing retaining means (820) is connected and by means which the processing retaining means can be moved into different positions along the retaining means circumferential path, namely a starting position for receiving the poultry carcasses, at least one processing position, and an end position for removing the poultry carcasses.

The invention provides a device for changing the orientation of slaughter products, comprising an endless guide (4) extending along a conveying path, product carriers (3) which are movable along the guide. Each carrier comprises a base part (6) and a rotary part (7) connected to the base part. The base part is provided with at least one runner (10) which cooperates with the guide during operation of the device. The rotary part is provided with an engagement part and with a suspension part connected to the engagement part for suspending a slaughter product from the suspension part. The rotary part is rotatable about an axis of rotation that extends in a vertical plane perpendicular to the conveying path. The device further comprises at least one operating element disposed beside the conveying path, which is configured to cooperate with the engagement part for causing the rotary part to rotate about the axis relative to the base part. The conveying path comprises an arcuate section (31) extending in a vertical plane, wherein the product carriers are present on the outer side of the arc. The operating element is disposed beside the arcuate section for causing the rotary parts of the product carriers to rotate at least in part about the associated axes of rotation during passage of the product carrier through the arcuate section, wherein the rotary part cannot pivot about a horizontal pivot axis that extends perpendicular to a vertical plane parallel to the arcuate section during passage of the associated product carrier through the arcuate section.

A positioning device (1) for positioning poultry legs (9) conveyed hung in single file comprises a flexing device (4) for flexing and positioning the poultry legs and a stationary holding and guiding device (5). The flexing device (4) forms a hooking device for suspending the poultry leg (9) at the region of the knee joint (93) in a holding and guiding slot (51) of the holding and guiding device (5). Travelling positioning elements (7) are formed by driven press elements which grip the poultry leg (9) from below on an axial leg side (940) to flex and lift said leg. Each travelling positioning element (7) forms, with a stationary positioning element (6), a functional pair of positioning elements (6, 7). One of the two positioning elements (6, 7) engages in the hollow of the knee (95) of the poultry leg (9) while the other positioning element (6.2; 7.1) is configured for placement on the thigh (92) on the front side (941) of the leg. Processing stations (56) can be arranged along the holding and guiding slot (51). In a method, carried out during the conveying, for removing the thigh meat from the poultry legs (9) conveyed in single file, said poultry legs are axially conveyed in a first said positioning device (1.1) with a transverse leading lateral side (950) of the leg and in a second said positioning device (1.2) with an axially leading knee cap side (940) of the leg. Cuts are made at the front side (941) of the leg and at the back side (942) of the leg along the first stationary holding and guiding slot (51.1). Cuts are made at the lateral sides (950) of the poultry leg along the second stationary holding and guiding slot (51.2), and the thigh meat (922) is pushed to the proximal end of the thigh bone (921).

A surface of a work to be inspected is irradiated with an illumination unit for a coaxial incident illumination and an illumination unit for an oblique incident illumination driven to take its image by a camera at the same time. Each of the illumination units and comprises light sources emitting color lights R, G and B, respectively. One of the three kinds of light sources is lighted in the illumination unit and one or two of the light sources which are not lighted in the illumination unit are lighted in the illumination unit.

The present invention relates to a method for handling poultry, such as chicken, turkey, geese, duck and quail, comprising the steps of (i) taking the poultry; (ii) placing the poultry in a confinement such that the poultry legs extend from the confinement; and (iii) coupling the poultry legs to a handling unit, and to an installation for handling poultry, such as chicken, turkey, duck and quail that takes the poultry and places the poultry in a confinement such that the poultry legs extend from the confinement; and the poultry legs are coupled to the handling unit.

The invention discloses a fully automatic poultry meat cutting device, which belongs to the technical field of poultry meat processing. The full-automatic poultry meat cutting device includes a support and a feeding belt installed on the support, a cutting mechanism, a pressing mechanism and a transmission mechanism, the cutting mechanism is located at one end of the support and the cutting opening of the cutting mechanism is connected One end of the feeding belt is matched, the pressing mechanism is located above the feeding belt and close to one end of the cutting mechanism, the pressing mechanism is connected with the bracket, and the feeding belt, cutting mechanism and pressing mechanism are all connected with the transmission mechanism Connection, linkage is realized through the transmission mechanism. The invention has high transmission efficiency, has the function of pressing the meat piece, can fix the poultry piece at the cutting edge, not only can cut the boned poultry meat, but also can effectively solve the problem that the existing technology cannot be fixed on the workbench and cause cutting out The size of the meat pieces is different, and the meat pieces are easy to splash, causing the meat pieces to be polluted and wasted and increasing the labor cost of cleaning the contaminated meat pieces.

The image sorting system sorts normal chicken breast meat fillets from chicken fillets that exhibit wooden breast myopathy (i.e. WB fillets). In the preferred embodiment, a camera and associated controller gather data and construct a digital image of a chicken breast fillet as it travels on a conveyer belt. The digital image is used to calculate a centroid (i.e. center of mass) of the fillet. As the fillet moves over a nose of the conveyor belt and free-falls to a lower conveyor belt, the controller determines the distance between the fillet centroid and a reference point (preferably the conveyer belt axis of rotation). If the distance exceeds a predetermined minimum distance, the fillet is designated a WB fillet.

The invention discloses an automatic duck head hanging device, a waxdip delivery system and a method for the waxdip delivery system, wherein the device is arranged above a waxdip tank and comprises an enter module through which duck heads can automatically enter and can be clamped before duck billets vertically enter the waxdip tank; the device also comprises an operation module through which the duck heads of the duck billets are placed upwards after the duck billets transversely enter the waxdip tank, wherein the wax liquid of the waxdip tank is not greater than the top of each duck neck in depth. Through the automatic duck head hanging device, the waxdip delivery system and the method for the waxdip delivery system, the following advantages are realized: I, the structure is simple and manual waxdip can be replaced, so that the manual cost is reduced; II, the operation is simple and the situation that duck noses are blocked by sticks for waxdip is avoided, so that the defect that edible wax easily enters mouths and heads of the ducks is overcome, the automation degree is remarkably enhanced and the waxdip working efficiency is improved; III, purposes of energy conservation and environmental protection are achieved as wax shells can be formed on the surfaces of the ducks through the control of the waxdip delivery system, so as to avoid extra loss of ducks and edible wax, ensure high quality and safety of food and provide convenient working conditions for personnel.

Method for processing slaughtered poultry, wherein oven-ready carcasses of slaughtered poultry are conveyed by a feed conveyor (2), said feed conveyor having an endless track and carriers (2a) that are moved along said track, the feed conveyor carrier being adapted to support one carcass suspended from its legs. Each individual carcass is subjected at least one of: a determination of the individual carcass weight by a weighing device (4), a determination of the individual carcass size by an imaging device. For dividing the carcasses into parts use is made of a first cut-up line (10) and a second cut-up line (20), wherein each cut-up line has an associated cut-up line conveyor (11, 21), said cut-up line conveyor having an endless track and carriers (11a, 21a) that are moved along said track, each cut-up line conveyor carrier being adapted to support one carcass suspended from its legs. Each cut-up line comprises one or more cutting devices (12, 22) arranged along the track, which one or more cutting devices divide a carcass supported by a cut-up line conveyor carrier into parts.