Butchering – Slaughtering – Stunning
Patent
1998-11-30
2000-02-01
Little, Willis
Butchering
Slaughtering
Stunning
452 58, A22C 2100
Patent
active
060196742
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides a saline solution containing elongated trough which is mounted at the end portions of four non-electrically conducting posts. The trough has an ingress funnel arrangement designed to restrict the thrashing of to-be-electrically stunned birds and an elongated grid having a portion immersed in the solution and a downstream portion out of the solution. The four posts extend upwardly and terminate in threaded portions. A frame carriage is provided which has four corners and at the four corners are suitably mounted driven gears with internal bores and threads adapted to engagingly rotate about the threaded portions of the posts. The carriage is suitably affixed to a conventional I-beam to which is movingly mounted a conventional endless cable and spaced shackle system for conveying upside down birds. The four mounted gears are driven rotatably in unison by a chain drive whereby the trough may be selectively moved upwardly or downwardly to vary the distance between the I-beam and the trough. A continuing extension trough is located and positioned at the end of the trough which has a relatively smooth bottom through which an additional and different pulsating electrical current can be applied to the head of the bird.
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Little Willis
Schellin Eric P.
SEC, Inc
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