FR2480566A1 - PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR INTRODUCING PREPARED INTERNAL OFFALS IN EMPTY FELLING CHICKENS - Google Patents

Abstract

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESS AND THE DEVICE IS TO AUTOMATE THE INTRODUCTION OF INTERNAL OFFAL, PREFERABLY ENVELOPED IN BAGS, IN BLOOD AND EMPTY CHICKENS WHICH ARE SUSPENDED BY THE LEGS ON HOOKS CIRCULATING ON A FIRST TRANSPORT ROUTE 4. THE BAGS OF OFFAL 14 ARE PLACED IN BOWLS 12 OF A SECOND ROUTE OF TRANSPORT 9 IN THE ZONE OF THE FIRST ROUTE OF TRANSPORT AND ARE THUS BROUGHT ABOVE THE BODIES OF CHICKENS 8, SO AS TO BE PUSHED BY PUSHERS 18 A FROM THE CUVETTES 12 IN THE UPPER WIDENED OPENINGS OF THE CHICKEN BODIES.

Description

Poultry slaughtered for shipment from slaughter facilities is packed

with interior giblets

suitable for trade, such as heart and liver.

  These offal are preferably wrapped in sachets and pushed inside the empty slaughtered poultry. This operation, in large slaughter facilities,

employs up to six or more workers.

The object of the invention is to propose a method and a device for introducing the organ meats prepared into the

  poultry body emptied in order to save labor.

For the solution of this problem, a method has been found which is characterized by the fact that the offal sachets lying on bowls are brought by a second conveyor path into the area of a first path and this up to - above the bodies of chickens and that by a pusher the sachets sachets are introduced from the bowls to the enlarged upper openings of the slaughtered poultry. With this working process, the desired goal is achieved mechanically in a safe and simple way. The organ meats, packaged in sachets, are pushed into the chicken bodies from top to bottom. For this, the sachets

  interior offal can for example be pushed laterally

down from the cuvettes using the pushers

  evenings and be introduced into the bodies of chickens. The production can be carried out in such a way that the bowls are arranged with the possibility of tilting and the bags of internal offal are then pushed by the pushers with pivoting downwards of the bowls. Other ways to empty the bowls are part of the

present invention.

  According to a preferred embodiment of the method, the bowls themselves are open for the central passage of the bags of internal offal so that the

  offal sachets are moved about vertically downwards

securely through the bowls.

  According to another embodiment of the method, the bowls, preferably set down in a conical shape, descend before the pushing of the inner sachets by partially engaging in the emptying openings of the bodies of chickens. Thus, one is sir that the sachets of offal actually reach and in any case in the corresponding chicken bodies.

  According to a development of the invention, a device

tif for the execution of the above process is characterized by the fact that it presents a central structure-around which a first conveyor path for the chicken bodies passes, that around this structure is a second conveyor path more bottom with bowls for offal sachets and that the structure includes

devices for pushing the pushers towards the bowls.

  The structure can then be in the form of a conical surface narrowing upwards. The conical surface structure may have a rotating upper part with guide rods on which the pushers can move by sliding sliders which are

  guided in a groove or slide of the conical surface.

  During a turn of the rotating part, each pusher

  goes down for example once and then goes up again.

  According to another embodiment of the invention, the bowls are arranged with a height adjustment means on the corresponding rolling winches and preferably also with the aid of sliding parts which

are guided in another slide on the conical surface.

During the rotation of the rotating part of the conical surface structure, the bowls in phase with the pushers descend once and go up, while the pushers get closer to the bowls during the descent and

engage in widening bowls for intro-

duction of offal sachets in bled chickens The bowls, which are preferably narrowed downwards in the form of cones and consist of several elements hinged upwards and linked together with elastic return, are thus lowered to the openings

for slaughtering chickens.

In the context of the present invention, the use of control devices, in particular electronic devices, which guarantee that the offal sachets are not pushed using the pushers only if on the

first carrier a matching chicken is in effect

trained each time.

  We will now describe an example of an embodiment of the invention showing other characteristics of the invention with reference to the attached schematic drawing, in which: FIG. 1 is a side view of a device for carrying out the method according to the invention; Figure 2 is a top view of a transport route for prepared organ meats, shown in the area of the device according to Figure 1; Figure 3 shows in enlarged side view a bowl for the offal packaged with a pusher disposed above in a first working position; and Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 in

a second working position.

In Figure 1, the simplified device is shown as a whole. On a base frame 1 of the device is arranged centrally on a column a structure with a conical surface 2, the periphery of which is established in the form of a trunk of cone tapering upwards. At a distance from the upper area of the structure

with a conical surface 2 there is a first rolling track

  conveyor ment 4 of arrangement known for

  bled chickens 8, this channel passing around the device.

  On the conveyor 4 can move following each other at equal distances from the 'rolling winches 5 with rollers 6, to which hooks 7 which hang are attached

  freely down for suspension by the legs ,.

chickens 8.

- A little above the lower periphery of the structure with a conical surface 2 of the device and at a certain distance from this device is a second conveyor path 9 roughly parallel to the first conveyor 4 and passing around the device. On the second conveyor lane. 9 can move

  rolling winches 10 arranged at equal intervals.

  Below the winches 10, bowls 12 are associated with these winches to receive the packets of interior offal so that the bowls 12 can move in height on rods 11 directed downward from the winches 10 as indicated in FIG. 3. In FIGS. 1 and 2, the arrows A indicate the direction of transport of the two transporters 4 and

  9 as well as the direction of rotation of the rotating part 3.

  Above the conical surface structure 2 is arranged coaxially a rotating part 3 which is

  rotated at a corresponding peripheral speed

traveling at the forward speed of the 5 and 10 wheel winches

on the two transport routes 4 and 9. From the tour part

  nante 3 hang at equal intervals from the guide rods 15 which are oriented parallel to the conical surface 2a of the conical surface structure 2. On the guide rods 15 can move up and down sliding parts 16 which are guided on the inner side in a slide forming a guide ramp on the conical surface 2a. On the outside, each piece of

  sliding 16 carries a pusher 18 oriented downwards.

During the rotation of the rotating part 3 during a revolution, the pushers 18 are guided by the ramp 17 towards the

bottom so as to enter the bowls 12.

As can be seen from FIGS. 3 and 4, the bowls 12 which narrow downwards are established so as to consist of several elements 12a hinged together upwards and held together at the bottom by

elastic elements not shown, the lower ends

  of elements 12a of the bowls which can move apart so that the bowls open downwards. From the side located towards the conical surface 2a, each bowl 12 carries a sliding part 13 which is guided in a

slide 19 on the conical surface 2a.

  The device works as shown below

  after. The bodies of bled and emptied chickens 8 are brought to the device on the first transport path 4. The spacings of the winches on the first transport path and those on the second transport path, the arrangement of the pushers 18 and the bowls 12 as well that the feed rates of these members are determined so that, in their course around the surface in c8ne 2 a chicken body 8, a bowl 12 and a pusher 18 are associated. On the second transport path 9 are the internal offal resting on the bowls 12 and preferably packaged in sachets, these offal

  being intended to be introduced into the bodies of chickens.

  The pushing of the offal sachets 14 is initiated by the fact that the corresponding pusher 18, controlled by the ramp 17, descends by penetrating into the bowl to act on the offal sachet and push it out of the bowl 12 which s 'opens downwards by spacing its elements. At the same time, the bowl 12 controlled by the ramp 19 has lowered enough that the conical part of the bowl enters the opening of the chicken body before the bowl is opened in the manner just indicated. under the action of pusher 18. Thus, it is ensured that the offal sachets are effectively introduced by the

pusher 18 into the chicken body.

The ramps 17 and 19 are established in such a way that the pusher 18 first recedes upwards and that the bowl-12 then recedes upwards, thus freeing itself from the body of the chicken. The first transport route then ends with the chickens filled with sachets sachets at a packing station beyond which it is stocked with new chickens. The second transport route is supplied

in new inner offal sachets at a feed station

this transport route.

R EVENDI CA ONS.

1. Method for introducing prepared interior organ meats, preferably wrapped in sachets, into

  bled and drained chickens which in a known manner are

  hung downwards by the legs from hooks along a first transport path, characterized in that the offal bags (14) are placed on bowls (12) of a second transport path ( 9) in the area of the first transport route and are thus brought above the bodies of chickens (8) and that the offal sachets are pushed by a pusher (18) from the bowls (12) into the openings enlarged upper bodies of chickens. 2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that the bowls (12) are open centrally

for the passage of the aba4ts pushers (14).

  3. Method according to claim 1 or the claim

  cation 2, characterized in that the downwardly conical bowls (12) are partially lowered in the openings of the chickens before the offal bags (14) are pushed. 4. Device for carrying out the process according to

any one of claims I to 3, characterized by

  the fact that it has a central structure around which passes a first transport path for the chicken bodies (8), that around the structure a second lower transport path (9) is provided with space in place of bowls (12) for the offal sachets (14) and that on the structure are provided devices to push the

pushers (18) towards the bowls (12).

  5. Device according to claim 4, characterized in that the structure is made up of a structure

conical surface (2) with a conical surface (2a) shrinking

cisse in c8ne up.

6. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the structure with conical surface (2) has a rotating upper part (3) from which guide rods descend (15) on which the pushers (18) can move by sliding parts (16) which are guided in a slide (17) on the surface

conical (2a).

  7. Device according to any one of the claims.

  cations 4 to 6, characterized in that the bowls (12) are arranged with the possibility of height adjustment on rods (11) oriented downwards from rolling winches (10) corresponding to these bowls and have pieces of slide (3) with which they are guided in a slide (19) on the surface

conical (2a).

  8. Device according to any one of the claims.

tions 4 to 7, characterized in that the bowls (12) narrow downwardly and consist of elements (12a) hinged together at their upper ends and resiliently biased which can deviate from each other to their bases by clearing a lower opening.

9. Device according to any one of the claims.

tions 6 to 8, characterized in that the advance movement of the pushers (18) extends up through the

  bowls (12) which open out at their base.