Apparatus and method for the transverse halving of poultry carcasses
US4593435A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 15, 1983 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 1986 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 15, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA22C21/0023
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method for individually receiving continually, from a moving succession of shackle conveyor invertably suspended eviscerated whole poultry carcasses, and thereafter cooperatively guiding each such whole poultry carcass in controlled and cooperatively timed conveyable delivery transport therewith sequentially to an inclined rotating cog wheel having a circumferential radial arrayal of regularly repeating identical teeth so that one such tooth thereof insertably engages respectively the evisceration vent of each whole poultry carcass sequentially transported thereby and in such disposition presents the same to a pre-positioned carcass-transverse severing blade adapted to automatically engage and effect a migratory transverse incision at the base of the carcass keel transversely across the carcass bilateral connecting tissue webs disposed between the breast and thighs while moving along a continuous directed path of travel whereby a progressive completion of the migratory incision into a carcass section transverse pull-torn substantial halving is effected which is completed by a breaking of the back of the carcass section by use of an increasingly inclined conical aug…
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