JP2020028233A - Fish body processor - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a fish body processor capable of mechanically removing gills of a fish body with a head, without manual work of an operator.SOLUTION: There is provided a fish body processor for removing a visceral organ of a fish including gills of the fish, comprising: a fish body transport device 18 for transporting a fish body W with a head along a head-tail direction in a state in which an abdominal part of the fish is directed to an upper side, in an almost horizontal direction; an abdominal part incision device 54 for incising the abdominal part of the fish body W transported by the fish body transport device 18 from a head to the vicinity of an anal; abdominal part cutting devices 80, 180 for dividing a body of the incised abdominal part of the fish body W into left and right parts; a pawl support member 122 movable in a vertical direction and rotatable in a vertical axis; and a visceral organ removal device 100 which comprises a pair of gripping pawls 126 being provided on the pawl support member and capable of entering an abdominal cavity between left and right bodies of the fish body W whose abdominal part is cut by the abdominal part cutting devices 80, 180, and gripping the visceral organ including the gills, and the visceral organ removal device 100 is configured to remove the visceral organ including the gills, by rotation around the vertical axis of and vertical movement performed by the pair of gripping pawls 126 gripping the visceral organ.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a fish processing apparatus, and more particularly, to a fish processing apparatus belonging to a gatching machine for removing internal parts including gills (gills) of large to medium-sized fish such as hamachi and sea bream.

  2. Description of the Related Art Various types of fish processing apparatuses that perform gatching processing of removing internal parts from the abdominal cavity by a rotating pulley or the like while transporting the fish by a transport belt or the like have been conventionally known (for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

JP-A-8-70760 JP-A-9-79991

  A conventional fish processing apparatus that performs gatching processing is intended to process dresses (headless) of fish species such as mackerel, horse mackerel, cod, etc., whose head including gills has been cut off. Gills cannot be removed. Conventionally, removal of gills of large to medium-sized fish such as hamachi and sea bream has been performed manually by a fishery processing worker. In particular, sea bream has a headed dish, so there is a great demand for removing the gills of a headed fish.

  The work to remove gills requires force on the arms and fingertips and is performed in a poor environment where blood etc. scatters, so in the fishery industry, in addition to reducing the work load, improving the work environment, from the sanitary point of view, There is a demand to mechanize the gill removal operation.

  An object of the present invention is to make it possible to mechanically remove the gills of a fish body with a head without depending on the manual operation of an operator in view of the above demands.

  A fish processing apparatus according to the present invention according to one embodiment of the present invention is a fish processing apparatus for removing internal organs including fish gills, and a fish body (W) with a head along the head and tail direction with the abdomen on the upper side. Transport device (18) for transporting the fish in a substantially horizontal direction, and an abdominal incision device (54) for incising the abdomen of the fish (W) transported by the fish transport device (18) from the head to near the anus. A belly opening device (80, 180) for opening the left and right bodies of the cut abdomen of the fish body (W) to the left and right, a claw support member (122) movable up and down and rotatable around a vertical axis, and The claw support member (122) is provided on the claw support device (80, 180), and can enter the abdominal cavity between the left and right bodies of the fish body (W) in the abdomen-open state by the abdomen opening device (80, 180) and can hold the internal organs including the gills. Including a pair of grasping claws (126) A removing device (100), wherein the internal organ removing device (100) removes internal organs including the gills by rotating and vertically moving the pair of gripping claws (126) holding the internal organs around a vertical axis. It is configured.

  According to this configuration, the pair of gripping claws (126) enter the abdominal cavity from above in a state where the left and right bodies of the incised abdomen are opened right and left, and the fish body of the pair of gripping claws (126) ( W) By grasping the gills and rotating the pair of grasping claws (126) around the vertical axis, the gills are separated from the fish body, and the pair of grasping claws (126) rise by grasping the gills, The gills of the fish body (W) with the head are mechanically removed without manual operation of the operator.

  In the fish processing apparatus, preferably, a gill element that cuts a gill element of the fish body (W) is located upstream of the internal organ removing apparatus (100) when viewed in the fish body transport direction of the fish body transportation apparatus (18). It has a cutting device (56).

  According to this configuration, in picking a large fish such as hamachi, the gill base is cut off from the main body of the fish, and the gill of the hamachi or the like is accurately collected.

  In the fish processing apparatus, preferably, the abdominal incision device (54) includes a rotary cutter (60) driven to rotate by an electric motor (58).

  According to this configuration, the abdomen of the fish (W) being transported by the fish transport device (18) is accurately incised from the head to the vicinity of the anus.

  In the above fish processing apparatus, preferably, the gill former cutting device (56) includes a vertically movable push cutting blade (62) for performing push cutting from above.

  According to this configuration, the gill element can be accurately cut from the fish body with a simple configuration.

  The fish processing apparatus preferably includes a turret member (52) that supports both the rotary cutter (60) and the push cutting blade (62), is vertically movable, and is rotatable 180 degrees around a horizontal axis.

  According to this configuration, the up-and-down moving mechanism of the rotary cutter (60) and the pushing blade (62) is shared, so that the structure is simplified and the fish processing apparatus can be made compact.

  In the fish processing apparatus, preferably, the fish body processing device (18) is located downstream of the internal organ removing device (100) when viewed in the fish body transport direction, and the belly opening device (80, 180) is in a belly-open state. A blood removal device (200) that is provided so as to be able to enter the abdominal cavity between the left and right bodies of the fish (W) and removes the blood of the fish (W) by a rocking motion along the craniocaudal direction. Have.

  According to this configuration, blood removal of the fish body (W) after the built-in removal is accurately performed.

  In the fish processing apparatus, preferably, the belly opening device (80, 180) includes a portion located upstream of the internal organ removing device (100) when viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device (18). It has a first ventral opening device (80) and a second ventral opening device (180) including a portion located upstream of the blood removal device (200).

  According to this configuration, the abdominal opening for removing internal organs and the abdominal opening for removing blood can be performed at appropriate timings.

  In the fish processing apparatus, preferably, the fish body (18) is positioned downstream of the blood removal device (200) when viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device (18), and the fish body ( A cleaning device (200) including a rotating brush (220) provided to be able to enter between the left and right bodies of W) and cleaning the fish body (W).

  According to this configuration, the cleaning of the fish body (W) after the built-in and blood removal is performed accurately.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to the fish body processing apparatus by this invention, removal of the gill of the fish body with a head is performed mechanically, without depending on an operator's manual operation.

Overall view showing one embodiment of a fish processing apparatus according to the present invention Top view of the fish transport device according to the present embodiment Front view of gill base cutting / abdominal incision of fish processing apparatus according to this embodiment The front view of the 1st belly opening part of the fish processing device by this embodiment Front view of a partial cross section of an internal organ removing section of the fish processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. Front view of a second belly opening portion of the fish processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. Side view of the second blood removal / cleaning unit of the fish processing apparatus according to the present embodiment. Time chart showing the operation timing of each part of the fish processing apparatus according to the present embodiment Overall view showing another embodiment of the fish processing apparatus according to the present invention

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a fish processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the fish processing apparatus according to the present embodiment has a rectangular frame-shaped main body frame 10 installed on a floor surface. The main body frame 10 is provided with a fish input table 12, a control device 15, and an operation panel 14. The operation panel 14 has a mechanical operation button (not shown), a monitor (not shown) such as a liquid crystal display with a touch panel, etc., and performs processing according to the type of fish such as hamachi and sea bream. Select and set the type of fish.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, a lower fish guide member 16 extending substantially horizontally and linearly in the front-rear direction (the left-right direction in FIGS. 1 and 2) is attached to the main body frame 10. Have been. The lower fish guide member 16 includes two rail members 16A and 16B spaced apart from each other as viewed in FIG. 3, and has a V-shape in front view due to the inclination of the upper end.

  The fish W handled in the fish processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is of a large to medium-sized fish such as a hachimaki with a head, a sea bream, and the like. The abdomen is on the upper side and the head is on the front side. It is thrown on the lower fish guide member 16. The lower fish guide member 16 receives the back of the fish W on the rail members 16A and 16B, and supports the fish W slidably in the extending direction of the rail members 16A and 16B. The distance between the two rail members 16A and 16B is for the back fin of the fish W to enter.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the main body frame 10 is provided with a fish transport device 18 that transports the fish W. The fish transport device 18 is of an electric belt conveyor type, and has a pair of left and right pulley support members 20. Each pulley support member 20 extends in the front-rear direction, and supports a drive pulley 22 and a driven pulley 24 so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis. Left and right endless belts 26 are stretched between each drive pulley 22 and each driven pulley 24.

  Each endless belt 26 circulates between each drive pulley 22 and each driven pulley 24 by rotating each drive pulley 22 by an individual electric motor 23 for each drive pulley 22. The left and right endless belts 26 include portions that are guided by the driven pulleys 24, each of the drive pulleys 22, and each of the guide pulleys 28 and extend linearly in the front-rear direction. The fish W is conveyed toward the front of the fish W (from right to left as viewed in FIGS. 1 and 2) with the lateral abdomen of the fish W on the lower fish guide member 16 sandwiched from left and right.

  As shown in FIG. 3, each pulley support member 20 is attached to a guide member 30 provided on the main body frame 10 so as to be movable in the left-right direction. The left and right pulley support members 20 are connected to each other by a link member 32, a sector gear 34, and the like, and are displaced left and right in synchronization with each other. A pneumatic cylinder device 36 is connected to one endless belt 26 on one pulley support member 20. The pneumatic cylinder device 36 displaces one pulley support member 20 in the left-right direction. Thereby, the interval in the left-right direction of the left and right endless belts 26 is variably set, and the fish transport device 18 can transport various fish W having different thicknesses.

  Since each drive pulley 22 is rotationally driven by an individual electric motor 23 for each drive pulley 22, the right and left endless belts 26 at different times in the transport direction can be run and stopped at individual timings. Accordingly, the processing of the plurality of fish W arranged in the transport direction at the positions corresponding to the left and right endless belts 26 can be performed in each unit in parallel, and the operation rate of the fish processing apparatus is improved.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the main body frame 10 is provided with a fish detection device 38. The fish detection device 38 includes a rotary encoder 40 and a fish detection arm 42 to which the rotary encoder 40 is attached. The fish detection arm 42 abuts on the abdomen of the fish W conveyed by the fish conveyance device 18 and is viewed in FIG. By rotating clockwise, the fish W is detected. The fish detection device 38 detects the height of the fish W in the abdomen and back direction based on the rotation angle of the fish detection arm 42, and detects the front-rear length of the fish W based on the rotation duration of the fish detection arm 42.

  The signal of the rotary encoder 40 is sent to the control device 15. The control device 15 refers to the signal of the rotary encoder 40 and sets the operation and operation timing of each unit according to the type of the fish to be processed which is selected and set, as shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a gill original cutting / abdominal incision device 44 is provided in front of the fish body detection device 38, that is, downstream of the fish body detection device 38 when viewed in the fish body conveyance direction of the fish body conveyance device 18. ing.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the gill base cutting / abdominal incision device 44 is a linear guide rail 46 attached to the main body frame 10 and extending vertically and a slider slidably engaged with the linear guide rail 46. And a base member 50 attached to the slider. The base member 50 supports a turret shaft (turret member) 52 extending in the left-right direction so as to be rotatable about a horizontal axis.

  The turret shaft 52 supports the abdominal incision device 54 and the gill base cutting device 56 with a rotation phase difference of 180 degrees around the center axis of the turret shaft 52. The abdominal incision device 54 includes a rotary cutter 60 driven to rotate by an electric motor 58. The gill base cutting device 56 includes a plate-shaped pushing blade 62 extending in the left-right direction. In other words, the turret shaft 52 supports both the rotary cutter 60 and the pushing blade 62, and is rotatable 180 degrees around the horizontal axis. A turret electric motor 64 is attached to the slider 48. The electric motor 64 is drivingly connected to the turret shaft 52 by a gear train (not shown), and rotates the turret shaft 52 between a rotation position where the rotary cutter 60 is located below and a rotation position where the push cutter 62 is located below. Drive by degrees.

  The gill base cutting / abdominal cutting device 44 has a driving pulley 70 and a driven pulley 72 rotatably supported by brackets 66 and 68 provided at two upper and lower portions of the main body frame 10. An endless belt 74 is stretched between the driving pulley 70 and the driven pulley 72. The base member 50 is connected to the endless belt 74. The endless belt 74 circulates and runs between the driving pulley 70 and the driven pulley 72 when the driving pulley 70 is rotationally driven by an electric motor (not shown), and drives the base member 50 in the vertical direction.

  The gill original cutting / abdominal incision device 44 first moves the fish body W to a predetermined position and stops by moving the base member 50 in a state in which the push cutting blade 62 is located below. Cut (cut off) the gills from the fish body. After the cutting of the gills is completed, the base member 50 is raised, the turret shaft 52 is rotated by 180 degrees so that the rotary cutter 60 is positioned below, and then the base member 50 is lowered and the rotary cutter 60 is rotated. The transport of the fish W is restarted by 18. When the fish W is conveyed by a predetermined amount, the base member 50 moves upward, the rotation of the rotary cutter 60 stops, and the fish W returns to the original state. As a result, the abdomen of the fish W is incised linearly from the head to the vicinity of the anus with a predetermined depth (a depth that does not cut the spine).

  The cutting of the gills of the fish W is performed as a pre-process for removing the gills of fish such as hamachi. If the fish to be processed is a fish such as a snapper, the cutting of the gills may be omitted.

  According to the gill base cutting / abdominal incision device 44, the rotary cutter 60 and the push cutting blade 62 can share a vertical movement mechanism, and the structure can be simplified. Further, since the gill original cutting and the abdominal incision are performed at the same position as viewed in the direction in which the fish W is transported by the fish transport device 18, the overall transport stroke of the fish W by the fish transport device 18 can be shortened, and the fish processing device can be implemented. It can be made compact.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the front side of the gill original cutting / abdominal incision device 44, that is, the downstream side of the gill original cutting / abdominal incision device 44 in the fish transport direction of the fish transporting device 18, as shown in FIG. A belly opening device 80 is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the first belly opening device 80 is horizontally mounted on a lower end of a pneumatic cylinder device 84 and a piston rod 86 of the pneumatic cylinder device 84 which are vertically mounted on the main body frame 10 by a bracket 82. A pneumatic cylinder device 88 provided.

  The pneumatic cylinder device 88 incorporates two parallel cylinder chambers (not shown), a piston (not shown) provided in each cylinder chamber, and a rack and pinion (not shown) for interlocking each piston with each other. A linear guide 90 extending horizontally in the left-right direction, and two sliders 92 individually slidably engaged with the linear guides 90 and connected to the respective pistons. They move in directions that are synchronized with each other.

  Left and right belly-opening plates 96 are attached to each slider 92 by hook-shaped arms 94. The left and right belly-opening plates 96 face each other in the left-right direction, and are positioned close to each other as shown by phantom lines in FIG. 4 by the pneumatic cylinder device 88 and separated from each other as shown by solid lines in FIG. Move between.

  The first belly-opening device 80 is configured such that the pneumatic cylinder device 88 descends by the pneumatic cylinder device 84 in a state where the left and right ventral opening plates 96 are located close to each other. The left and right ventral opening plates 96 enter the incision of W, that is, the abdominal cavity, and then move to the position where the left and right ventral opening plates 96 are separated from each other. Open left and right.

  On the front side of the first belly opening device 80, that is, on the downstream side of the first belly opening device 80 as viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device 18, as shown in FIG. Is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the internal organ removing device 100 includes a linear guide rail 102 attached to the main body frame 10 and extending in the vertical direction, and a slider (not shown) slidably engaged with the linear guide rail 102. (Shown). The base member 104 supports the assembly of the cylindrical block 108 and the cylindrical sleeves 110 and 112 by a ball bearing 106 so as to be rotatable about a horizontal axis extending in the left-right direction.

  A gear box 114 is attached to the distal end (left end) of the cylindrical sleeve 110. The gear box 114 supports a hollow shaft 120 extending vertically by a ball bearing 116 and a bush 118 so as to be rotatable around a vertical axis. A claw support member 122 is attached to a lower portion of the hollow shaft 120. A pair of gripping claws 126 are rotatably attached to the claw support members 122 by support shafts 124, respectively. The pair of gripping claws 126 are pivoted about the support shaft 124 so that the release positions separated from each other as shown by a solid line in FIG. It moves between the close gripping position. The inner surface of each gripping claw 126 is a corrugated portion 126A for securely gripping the internal organs including gills.

  An operating shaft 128 penetrates the hollow shaft 120 so as to be vertically movable. An operation piece 130 is attached to a lower end of the operation shaft 128. The operating piece 130 is provided with a connecting pin 134 that engages with the elongated hole 132 formed in each gripping claw 126 to connect the pair of gripping claws 126 to each other. A pneumatic cylinder device 138 is mounted on an upper portion of the gear box 114 by a mount 136. The upper end of the operating shaft 128 is connected to the pneumatic cylinder device 138. The operating shaft 128 is driven up and down by the pneumatic cylinder device 138 to move the pair of gripping claws 126 to the release position by moving down, and to move the pair of gripping claws 126 to the gripping position by moving up.

  The assembly of the cylindrical block 108 and the cylindrical sleeves 110 and 112 supports the rotating shaft 146 concentrically and rotatably by ball bearings 140, 142 and 144 inside. A drive bevel gear 148 is mounted at the left end where the rotating shaft 146 is located in the gear box 114. A driven bevel gear 150 meshed with the drive bevel gear 148 is attached to the hollow shaft 120.

  The gear support member 152 is attached to the base member 104. Another gear support member 154 is attached to the gear support member 152. An electric motor 156 is attached to the gear support member 154. The motor 156 is drivingly connected to the rotating shaft 146 by a spur gear train 158 and a belt type transmission 160. As a result, the claw support member 122 is driven to rotate about the vertical axis together with the pair of gripping claws 126 by the electric motor 156. Another electric motor 162 is attached to the gear support member 152. The motor 162 is drivingly connected to the cylindrical sleeve 112 by a spur gear train 164. Accordingly, the gear box 114 is driven by the electric motor 162 to rotate about the horizontal axis extending in the left-right direction so as to incline along the head and tail direction together with the pair of gripping claws 126.

  The internal organs removing device 100 has a driving pulley 170 and a driven pulley 172 rotatably supported by brackets 166 and 168 provided at two upper and lower portions of the main body frame 10. An endless belt 174 is stretched between the driving pulley 170 and the driven pulley 172. The base member 104 is connected to the endless belt 174. The endless belt 174 circulates between the driving pulley 170 and the driven pulley 172 by rotating the driving pulley 170 by an electric motor (not shown), and drives the base member 104 in the vertical direction.

  The visceral removal device 100 is at the release position in the abdominal cavity of the fish W that is transported to a predetermined position by the fish transport device 18 and is opened by the first belly opening device 80 when the base member 104 moves downward. When the pair of gripping claws 126 enter and thereafter the pair of gripping claws 126 are located at the gripping positions, the pair of gripping claws 126 grip the gills of the fish W. Thereafter, the pair of gripping claws 126 rotate together with the claw support member 122 about the vertical axis a predetermined number of times while gripping the gills, and then the gills whose gill elements have been cut off are raised by the base member 104 moving upward. W is removed above the abdominal cavity. Then, the gear box 114 is inclined along the head and tail direction together with the pair of gripping claws 126, and the pair of gripping claws 126 return to the release position in the inclined state, so that the gills drop to a position different from the original position.

  Thereafter, the fish W remaining in the belly-open state by the first belly-opening device 80 is transported by a predetermined amount by the fish transporting device 18, and the same operation as the above-mentioned gill collecting is performed by the internal organs removing device 100, thereby excluding the gills. Of the fish W is removed.

  Thus, in the present embodiment, removal of the fish body W with the head from the built-in abdominal cavity including the gills is performed mechanically and accurately without depending on the manual operation of the operator.

  When the fish to be processed is a large fish such as hamachi, removal of gills and removal of built-in components other than gills are performed by separate operations, as described above, when the fish to be processed is a large fish such as hamachi. When the fish to be processed is a medium-sized fish such as a bream, gill removal and built-in removal other than gills may be performed by one operation.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a second belly opening device 180 is provided on the front side of the internal organ removing device 100, that is, on the downstream side of the internal organ removing device 100 in the fish transport direction of the fish transporting device 18, as shown in FIG. I have.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the second belly opening device 180 is horizontally mounted on the lower end of the pneumatic cylinder device 184 and the piston rod 186 of the pneumatic cylinder device 184 which are vertically mounted on the main body frame 10 by the bracket 182. With a pneumatic cylinder device 188.

  The pneumatic cylinder device 188 incorporates two parallel cylinder chambers (not shown), a piston (not shown) provided in each cylinder chamber, and a rack and pinion (not shown) for interlocking each piston with each other. A linear guide 190 extending horizontally in the left-right direction, and two sliders 192 individually slidably engaged with the linear guides 190 and connected to the respective pistons. They move in directions that are synchronized with each other.

  Left and right belly-opening plates 196 are attached to each slider 192 by hook-shaped arms 194. The left and right belly-opening plates 196 face each other in the left-right direction, and are located close to each other as shown by phantom lines in FIG. 6 by the pneumatic cylinder device 188, and separated from each other as shown by solid lines in FIG. Move between.

  The second belly-opening device 180 is configured such that the fish conveyed by the fish carrier 18 by the pneumatic cylinder 188 being lowered by the pneumatic cylinder 184 in a state where the left and right belly-opening plates 196 are located close to each other. The left and right abdominal opening plates 196 enter the incision of W, that is, the abdominal cavity, and then move to the position where the left and right abdominal opening plates 196 are separated from each other. Open left and right.

  On the front side of the second belly-opening device 180, that is, on the downstream side of the second belly-opening device 180 as viewed in the fish transporting direction of the fish transporting device 18, as shown in FIG. An apparatus 200 is provided.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the blood removal / cleaning device 200 includes a pneumatic cylinder device 202 vertically attached to the main body frame 10 and a base member 204 attached to the pneumatic cylinder device 202.

  The base end of an arm 208 is attached to the base member 204 by a support shaft 206 extending horizontally in the left-right direction. The arm 208 extends downward from the support shaft 206, and has a semicircular blood collecting member 210 attached to its free end. The blood removal member 210 has a lower surface 210A in which serrations are noted. An electric motor 212 is attached to the base member 204. The electric motor 212 drives the support shaft 206 to reciprocate at a predetermined rotation angle.

  A brush support member 216 is rotatably attached to the front side of the base member 204 by a pivot 214 extending horizontally in the left-right direction. The brush support member 216 rotatably supports the rotating brush 220 by a support shaft 218 extending horizontally in the left-right direction. An electric motor 222 is attached to the brush support member 216. The electric motor 222 drives the rotary brush 220 to rotate.

  The blood removal / cleaning device 200 includes a blood removal member in the abdominal cavity of the fish W that is transported by the fish transport device 18 and is opened by the second belly opening device 180 when the base member 204 moves downward. 210 enters, and the lower surface 210A rubs against the bottom of the abdominal cavity of the fish W with the belly opened by the swinging movement of the blood collecting member 210 along the head and tail direction, thereby removing blood.

  Thereby, the cleaning of the fish W from which the built-in including the gills has been removed is accurately performed.

  The rotating brush 220 abuts on the bottom of the abdominal cavity of the fish W in the abdominal opened state after blood removal by its own weight in the rotating state to clean the abdominal cavity.

  Thereby, the inside of the abdominal cavity of the fish body W from which gills and gills are removed and blood is removed is accurately performed.

  A jet nozzle 224 that jets water at a high pressure toward a cleaning unit using the rotating brush 220 is attached to the main body frame 10. Thereby, the cleaning unit by the rotating brush 220 is washed away.

  FIG. 8 shows the operation timing of each unit from time A to time N of each unit of the fish processing apparatus according to the above-described embodiment when the processing target fish is hamachi or the like.

  Next, another embodiment of the fish processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In FIG. 9, the portions corresponding to those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals as those in FIG. 1, and the description thereof is omitted.

  In the present embodiment, the internal organ removing device 100 has another pair of gripping claws 230 at a predetermined interval upstream of the pair of gripping claws 126 and upstream of the fish body W. The pair of gripping claws 230 move between a release position that is separated from the other and a gripping position that is close to each other, and a rotation mechanism is omitted for the gripping claw 230.

  In this embodiment, the pair of gripping claws 126 and 230 move up and down simultaneously and move between the release position and the gripping position in synchronization with each other, so that the pair of gripping claws 126 do not move the fish W. Gill removal and built-in removal other than gills are performed simultaneously. Thereby, the processing time of one fish W is reduced.

  As described above, the present invention has been described with respect to the preferred embodiments. However, as will be easily understood by those skilled in the art, the present invention is not limited to such embodiments, and departs from the spirit of the present invention. It can be changed appropriately within a range not to be performed.

  For example, the rotary cutter 60 and the push cutting blade 62 may be individually provided at different positions in the transport direction of the fish W, and may be moved up and down by separate up and down movement mechanisms. If the fish to be processed is a bream or the like, the press cutting blade 62 for cutting the gills may be omitted.

  A first belly opening device 80 for opening the belly when removing internal organs and a second belly opening device 180 for opening the belly when blood removal and cleaning are provided separately as in the above-described embodiment. There is an advantage that the abdominal opening for removing the internal organs, the blood removal, and the abdominal opening for cleaning can be performed at individual appropriate timings, but this is not essential. The second belly opening device 180 may be constituted by one belly opening device that is long in the transport direction of the fish W.

  The vertical movement mechanism of the blood removal / cleaning device may be a belt-hung type, and the vertical movement mechanism of each part is not limited to a belt-hung type or a pneumatic cylinder device, and a rack and pinion mechanism may be used. It may be a used one or a linear motor.

  Further, all of the components shown in the above embodiment are not necessarily essential, and can be appropriately selected without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

10: body frame 12: fish input stand 14: operation panel 15: control device 16: lower fish guide member 16A: rail member 16B: rail member 18: fish transport device 20: pulley support member 22: drive pulley 23: electric motor 24: Driven pulley 26: Endless belt 28: Guide pulley 30: Guide member 32: Link member 34: Sector gear 36: Pneumatic cylinder device 38: Fish body detection device 40: Rotary encoder 42: Fish body detection arm 44: Gill base cutting / abdominal incision device 46 : Linear guide rail 48: Slider 50: Base member 52: Turret shaft (turret member)
54: Abdominal incision device 56: Original cutting device 58: Electric motor 60: Rotary cutter 62: Push cutting blade 64: Electric motor 66: Bracket 68: Bracket 70: Drive pulley 72: Followed pulley 74: Endless belt 80: First belly Opening device 82: Bracket 84: Pneumatic cylinder device 86: Piston rod 88: Pneumatic cylinder device 90: Linear guide 92: Slider 94: Arm 96: Belly opening plate 100: Internal organ removing device 102: Linear guide rail 104: Base member 106: Ball bearing 108: Cylindrical block 110: Cylindrical sleeve 112: Cylindrical sleeve 114: Gear box 116: Ball bearing 118: Bush 120: Hollow shaft 122: Claw support member 124: Support shaft 126: Gripping claw 126A: Wave portion 128: Operating shaft 130: Working piece 1 32: slot 134: connecting pin 136: mounting base 138: pneumatic cylinder device 140: ball bearing 142: ball bearing 144: ball bearing 146: rotary shaft 148: drive bevel gear 150: driven bevel gear 152: gear support member 154: Gear support member 156: Electric motor 158: Spur gear train 160: Belt type transmission 162: Motor 164: Spur gear train 166: Bracket 168: Bracket 170: Drive pulley 172: Driven pulley 174: Endless belt 180: Second belly Opening device 182: Bracket 184: Pneumatic cylinder device 186: Piston rod 188: Pneumatic cylinder device 190: Linear guide 192: Slider 194: Arm 196: Belly opening plate 200: Blood removal / cleaning device 202: Pneumatic cylinder device 204: Base member 206: Support shaft 208: Arm 210: Blood removal member 210A: Lower surface 212: Electric motor 214: Axis 216: Brush support member 218: Support shaft 220: Rotating brush 222: Electric motor 224: Injection nozzle 230: Gripping claw W: Fish body

Claims (8)

A fish processing apparatus for removing internal organs including fish gills,
A fish transport device that transports a fish with a head in a substantially horizontal direction along the head and tail direction with the abdomen on the upper side,
An abdominal incision device for incising the abdomen of the fish transported by the fish transport device from the head to near the anus;
A belly opening device that opens the left and right bodies of the cut abdomen of the fish body from side to side,
A claw support member that is vertically movable and rotatable about a vertical axis, and is provided on the claw support member, and is capable of entering the abdominal cavity between the left and right bodies of the fish body in a belly-open state by the belly-opening device, and Having an internal organs removal device including a pair of gripping claws capable of gripping internal organs,
The fish processing apparatus, wherein the internal organ removing device is configured to remove internal organs including the gills by rotating and vertically moving the pair of gripping claws gripping the internal organs around a vertical axis.   2. The fish processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a gill source cutting device that is located upstream of the internal organ removing device as viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device and cuts the gill element of the fish body. 3.   The fish processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the abdominal incision device includes a rotary cutter driven to rotate by an electric motor.   The fish processing apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the gill element cutting device includes a vertically movable push cutting blade that performs push cutting from above.   The fish processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a turret member that supports both the rotary cutter and the pushing blade, and that is vertically movable and rotatable 180 degrees around a horizontal axis.   The head is located downstream of the internal organ removing device as viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device, and is provided so as to be able to enter into the abdominal cavity between the left and right bodies of the fish in the abdomen opened state by the ventral opening device. The fish processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising a blood removal device that removes blood of the fish body by swinging movement along a tail direction.   The belly opening device includes a first belly opening device including a portion located upstream of the internal organ removing device as viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device, and a portion located upstream of the blood removal device. The fish processing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising a second belly opening device including:   As viewed in the fish transport direction of the fish transport device, the fish transport device is located downstream from the blood removal device, and is provided so as to be able to enter between the left and right bodies of the fish in the belly-open state by the belly-opening device, and The fish processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising a cleaning device including a rotating brush for performing cleaning.

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