Abstract:
A tripes cleaning apparatus includes a rotatable drum presenting a tripes-supporting surface and a nozzle associated with the tripes-supporting surface and operable to discharge fluid from a fluid source into the tripes as the drum is rotated. The tripes cleaning apparatus also includes an automatic valve configured to cyclically control flow from the fluid source to the nozzle in coordination with rotation of the drum.
Abstract:
A field dressing apparatus and system preferably includes a plurality of ground stabilizing components, a plurality of a tethering members and a plurality of engaging components. Each ground stabilizing component includes a shaft element that extends from a handle element. A proximal end of the tethering member is secured to the ground stabilizing component and a distal end is secured to the engaging component. The engaging component preferably includes a hook section, a gripping section and a ring section. The hook section extends from one end of the gripping section and the ring section is disposed on the other end of the gripping section. The distal end of the tethering member is secured to the ring section of the engaging component. A second embodiment of the dressing apparatus and system includes the plurality of a tethering members, a plurality of engaging components and a compacting securing panel.
Abstract:
An apparatus for automatic cutting of organs from a plucks set from a carcass by a cutting device, the plucks set comprising larynx, gullet and windpipe, lungs and heart. The apparatus comprises a suspension device for holding the pipes, moving device for moving the plucks set relative to the cutting device, while the pipes are held in the suspension device, and a guiding device adapted to guide the plucks set to the cutting deice and keep the lungs and the heart separated from each other.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a method of mechanically washing an animal casing such as a bung. The method involves placing the casing on an elongate support element so that the element extends through the casing, the element having a duct or ducts for washing liquid and outlets for discharging the liquid inside the casing. With the casing in place, washing liquid can be caused to issue from the outlets under pressure so as to wash the interior of the casing. There is also disclosed a machine for washing such casings, the machine essentially consisting of a number of such elements which can be loaded with casings in a loading zone, a supply means for supplying washing liquid to the ducts of the elements in a washing zone, and a transport means for transporting the elements in rotation between and through these zones.
Abstract:
Apparatus for isolating and running off a gold beater strand of the serosa membrane portion of the small intestine of a animal, for example a steer. The apparatus comprises an orientation horn made up of three rods which form a common joint adjacent the leading end of the horn, which leading end is curved and rounded in order that a portion of small intestine tube which has initially been manually severed from the stomach of a beast may be fed on to the leading end of the horn and initially manually fed along the horn. A rotary blade is provided in the region between the three rods. One of the rods is affixed to the apparatus above the rotary blade and the other two rods are affixed to the apparatus below the rotary blade. The rotary blade severs the small intestine tube as it is fed along the horn and the upper portion of the tube containing the gold beater strand is fed over the upper rod whereas the remainder of the small intestine tube, the mesentery web and the stomach portion fall away below the lower two rods.
Abstract:
An omasum washing machine eliminates use of a motor shaft requiring a forward/backward rotation switching operation which can damage the motor shaft and prevents washing water from splashing to the outside of a tank. This is accomplished by providing inner and outer stirrers, the inner stirrer and the outer stirrer being coupled with a forward rotating drive motor and a backward rotating drive motor, respectively.
Abstract:
A tool, or probe, is provided for insertion into a avian or poultry carcass for removing the crop and/or windpipe and/or gullet and/or other undesired viscera from the neck of the bird carcass. The probe has helical threads protruding from a probe body. V-shaped voids are cut into the helical threads to provide teeth for removal of the crop and other inedible viscera from the carcass. A cam and method of manufacturing a cam for use in decropping machines and other food processing machinery is provided. The cam includes plastic guides that are pre-shaped in two dimensions and then wrapped about a three dimensional cam frame to provide a desired path for a cam follower.
Abstract:
One aspect of the invention is a entrails removal instrument for making a hollow cavity in the gut of a bait fish such as a herring, including: an elongate body having two straight parallel longitudinal sides, said body forming a curved groove between said longitudinal sides; an end section, said end section extending from said elongate body and tapering in width to a rounded point; and a plurality of tines emanating from a surface of the instrument, wherein at least one tine of said plurality of tines emanates from the end section and is directed away from the rounded point and towards the elongate body, wherein said entrails removal instrument is adapted to fit into the body of the bait fish and form a hollow cavity when inserted into the body, rotated and removed.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for cutting open the stomach of a bird comprising a cutting means shaped as a nozzle for ejecting a high pressure liquid jet. For obtaining an optimised cutting action the nozzle preferably is displaceable away from or towards the stomach to be processed. Constructively it is preferable that the nozzle is mounted at the outer end of an arm pivoting in a vertical plane said outer end engaging the stomach through guiding means, such as a follower roll.
Abstract:
An apparatus for processing the gizzards of poultry of various sizes which comprises a conveyor with drivers for moving the gizzards along the top of a guide past cutting means for cutting the gizzards open as they are moved along the guide. Auxiliary guide means is disposed along both sides of the top of the guide and moves in synchronism with the conveyor for guiding the gizzards as they move along the top of the guide past the cutting means. The auxiliary guide means may be driven by engaging the conveyor.