Apparatus for decropping poultry

Details Apparatus for decropping poultry Apparatus for decropping poultry

1992-06-16

1993-06-29

Little, Willis

Butchering

Viscera processing

Pressure differential type

452117, A22C 2516

Patent

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052229050

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for decropping poultry including a probe for use with an automatic poultry cropping machine of the type adapted for advancing the probe through the belly cavity of the bird and into the neck and for rotating the probe. The probe includes an elongate body having a hollow interior chamber and adapted to be connected to a vacuum source. The elongate body has two rows of teeth for capturing the crop, gullet, windpipe, etc., of the poultry as the probe is advanced into the neck and rotated, with at least some of the teeth pointing generally toward the forward end of the probe. In one embodiment the elongate body is tapered and the teeth have ball-shaped tip portions.

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patent: 4910829 (1990-03-01), Simmons
patent: 4958408 (1990-09-01), Meyn
patent: 5122090 (1992-06-01), Van den Nieuwelaar et al.

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