Patent
1983-01-26
1985-05-07
Abercrombie, Willie G.
A22C 2102
Patent
active
045148791
ABSTRACT:
Two banks of feather pickers 65 and 66 are suspended from overhead parallel support beams 22 and 23 on opposite sides of the path of travel of a series of poultry carcasses moving along an overhead conveyor system. A pair of movable frame members 30, 31 and 32, 33 extend downwardly from each support beam, and each bank of pickers is rotatably supported at its opposite ends on a support sleeve 45 mounted to a movable frame member, with an elevator screw 48 arranged to lift and lower the support sleeve on each movable frame member. The picking fingers 98 protrude from rotary picking disks 91 that are supported on platforms 70-72 mounted within a cabinet 62, with the picking fingers normally protruding from an open side of each cabinet toward the opposite bank of pickers. The picking finger support platforms are tiltable with respect to one another so as to locate the ends of the picking fingers in positions to engage the birds. The banks of pickers can be rotated on their horizontal axes so as to orient the picking fingers directly away from the opposite bank of pickers, and the picking fingers and other elements of the apparatus can be cleaned, repaired, replaced, etc. without obstruction from the opposite bank of pickers.
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