1979-07-16
1981-03-24
Abercrombie, Willie G.
A22C 2100
Patent
active
042571430
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for removing the heads of poultry wherein the birds, each pendulously supported by its feet from shackles connected at intervals to an overhead conveyor, are delivered to place their heads below a neck engaging channel through which the necks pass, the channel being formed by two rods in juxtaposition alongside one another aligned to establish a horizontal divergence between the channel and the conveyor path between entrance and exit ends of the channel. A cutter blade at the exit end of the neck engaging channel is rotated in a vertically oriented plane extending along the axis of the channel. A deflecting guide is located between the exit and entrance ends of the neck engaging channel and adapted to contact and deflect the shackled leg ends of the suspended poultry from a normal path vertically below the path of the conveyor to a deflected path sufficiently offset horizontally from the normal path in a direction opposite that of the neck engaging channel as will withdraw all portions of the bird from within the channel except the neck with the head captured against the lower surfaces of the rods in which position the neck and head continue to be maintained by the weight of the bird suspended from the conveyor with its center of gravity moving along a path between the diverging paths of the conveyor and neck guide channel as the neck aligned transversely of the channel moves into the vertically oriented plane of the cutter blade.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3477092 (1969-11-01), Simmons
patent: 3490092 (1970-01-01), Harrison
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