Butchering – Viscera processing – Venting or opening preparatory to eviscerating
Patent
1990-08-09
1992-06-09
Little, Willis
Butchering
Viscera processing
Venting or opening preparatory to eviscerating
452106, 452123, 452160, 452176, A22B 520
Patent
active
051202662
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The object of the present invention is a device for the automatic evisceration of slaughtered animal carcasses. It is intended for implementation in a high-speed industrial slaughter house.
2. Discussion of Background and Material Information
In the devices constructed up until the present invention, the sectioning elements often perforated the intestines as a result of penetrating too deeply during the incision which permits the extraction of the entrails, especially due to imprecision of mechanical positioning methods. As a result, up until now most of the equipment was unusable to permit high speed treatment in industrial slaughter houses, just as they could not detach the lard from the pig carcasses.
Also, the Veterinary Hygiene Services of the European Community require a procedure to obstruct the anal orifice of slaughtered animals.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The device according to the present invention eliminates these drawbacks and allows, even when performing high speed work, to proceed automatically to seal the anal orifice and assure the longitudinal cut in the ventral surface of the carcasses at the same time as that of the bony part of the sternum, without it being possible to reach the entrails.
The device according to the present invention is composed of of an automatic mechanical distribution and anal obstructor installation system, a moveable frame supporting a circular blade for the incision of the ventral part, a circular saw for progressive penetration in the sternum and an ensemble for disengaging the entrails from the path of the cutting tools, including nozzles projecting water at an adjustable pressure.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In the attached drawings, given as a non-limiting example, of one of the forms of construction of the object of the invention:
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate two variations of the distribution and anal obstructor installation system.
FIG. 3 illustrates an anal obstructor on another scale.
FIG. 4 is a view of the ensemble of the evisceration device, from an elevated view and in a lengthwise section.
FIG. 5 illustrates the tilting table seen from the front.
The device, FIGS. 1-5, is implanted near a rail 7 on which the carcasses 4 are hung on hooks 19 pulled by a chain 6, and is constituted of an anal obstructor distribution system, of a moveable frame 22 vertically carrying a tilting table 8 and the means to incise the ventral part of the carcasses, of a cutting tool 2 to section the entrails, of nozzles 17, 18, 28, to project water.
The goal of the distribution and anal obstructor installation system is to complete the clipping ensemble of the anus in order to resolve the problem of the materials contained in the intestine which can spill on or in the carcass 4. This obstructor 44 is preferably hollow and conically-shaped, molding the end of the centering mandrel 42 of the rectum clipping tool, and is made in a similar plastic material. It permits an easy introduction into the inside of the anus, while scraping whatever adheres to the internal walls, thus assuring the cleanliness of the centering mandrel 42, thanks to a peripheral collar 43 which also permits the obstructor to be held in place.
An automatic stacking distributor 45 (FIG. 1) takes the obstructors 44 one by one on the trajectory of the mandrel 42. When the mandrel meets the obstructor, it is held on the end of it by a vacuum created by a tube 46. Once penetration into the anus 41 is finished, the vacuum is broken and a blowing detaches the obstructor 44.
In a variation on the construction, the automatic distributor consists of two bobbins 47, (FIG. 2) which unwind constructed of front of the mandrel 42 a precut band 48 in plastic or the equivalent. The precut part 49 is freed and moved by the push of the mandrel 42 at the moment of its penetration into the anus.
The carcass 4 then presents the ventral part 10 on the table 8 in a vertical position. By a central opening in the table, the circular blade 1, driven by the motor 35 and the
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