Method and apparatus for gutting fish

Butchering – Viscera processing – Pressure differential type

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121170, A22C 2514

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049931164

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for carrying out a method for gutting fish is provided, which comprises in combination a conveyor including a number of segments at given intervals in a direction substantially perpendicular with respect to its moving direction and operating at a given speed in a certain direction, a rotary cutter for cutting off a head of a fish placed and carried on the conveyor while the venter located within the segment leads and the head is projected from one side edge of the conveyor, a retainer for retaining the fish to be beheaded in place, a plate for forcing the dorsal region of the beheaded fish onto the conveyor by the action of a spring, a guide plate fixed at a position where it comes into engagement with a cut end of the beheaded fish forced onto the conveyor by the plate, and a guts squeezer member formed of an elastomer adapted to be forcedly slid over the venter of the fish from the anus toward the cut end, the fish being now in engagement with the fixed guide plate and forced by the plate.

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patent: 3707019 (1972-12-01), Wiggins
patent: 3754301 (1973-08-01), Grimes
patent: 3793675 (1974-02-01), Hogan et al.

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