Resilient Spoon Evisceration Tool for Poultry Contour Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current evisceration tools for poultry processing are inflexible, requiring multiple sizes to accommodate varying bird sizes, leading to inefficiencies, damage, and poor quality evisceration due to the need for frequent tool changes and inadequate adaptation to different animal contours.
Innovation Solution
An evisceration tool made partly or wholly of resilient material that can deform to adapt to the body's contour, ensuring complete and damage-free removal of internal organs across different poultry sizes without the need for tool changes, utilizing a spoon-shaped design with a flexible spoon edge and spoon base that adjusts its active surface based on the animal's size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If evisceration tools are made rigid to ensure structural strength, then the tool can maintain its shape and effectively remove internal organs, but the tool cannot adapt to different poultry sizes, requiring frequent tool changes
Solution Approach 1:
The evisceration tool incorporates a flexible membrane structure that can deform and adapt to different poultry body sizes while maintaining sufficient structural strength through its material properties and geometric design, eliminating the need for frequent tool changes
Solution Approach 2:
The tool transitions from a static rigid structure to a dynamic flexible structure that can change its configuration during operation, allowing it to adapt to varying poultry sizes while maintaining the necessary strength for effective evisceration
2Adaptability or versatility
If evisceration tools are made flexible to adapt to different poultry sizes, then the tool can accommodate varying contours, but the tool may lack the stiffness needed to effectively remove internal organs
Solution Approach 1:
The tool's material properties or structural parameters are designed to provide optimal balance between flexibility and stiffness, allowing the tool to adapt to different poultry sizes while maintaining sufficient rigidity for effective internal organ removal
3Reliability
If multiple sizes of evisceration tools are maintained to accommodate different poultry sizes, then complete and damage-free evisceration can be achieved, but the device complexity and time required for tool changes increase
Solution Approach 1:
The evisceration tool is designed as a universal multi-functional device that can effectively process poultry of different sizes through its flexible adaptive structure, eliminating the need for multiple specialized tool sizes and reducing device complexity
4Reliability
If evisceration tools are frequently changed to match poultry sizes, then optimal evisceration quality can be maintained, but productivity decreases due to loss of time
Solution Approach 1:
The universal evisceration tool eliminates the need for frequent tool changes by effectively accommodating different poultry sizes, thereby maintaining high evisceration quality while significantly improving productivity and reducing downtime
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The tool ensures complete and damage-free removal of internal organs from both large and small poultry without the need for tool changes, maintaining high quality and efficiency by adapting to the specific size of each animal, reducing the risk of bone damage and improving productivity.
Implementation Method 1
the resilient material is on the one hand flexible enough to adapt to a contour of the body during removal of the internal organs and on the other hand stiff enough to remove the internal organs from the body
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to an evisceration tool, designed and configured for removing internal organs and in particular an intestine pack from the body of slaughtered poultry, comprising a spoon-shaped basic body, wherein the basic body has a spoon base (12) and a spoon edge which extends around at least part of the spoon base to form a spoon bowl, which is distinguished in that the basic body is made at least partly of a resilient material, wherein the resilient material is on the one hand flexible enough to adapt to a contour of the body during removal of the internal organs and on the other hand stiff enough to remove the internal organs from the body. The invention relates also to an evisceration apparatus having such an evisceration tool.