JPH0789849B2 - Shackle mechanism of carcass processor - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a shackle mechanism of a carcass processing device, and more particularly, when slaughtering a slaughtered bird (broiler or the like), the carcass suspended on an overhead conveyor is restrained from swaying forward and backward and left and right. The present invention relates to a shackle mechanism capable of moving a carcass and holding the carcass in a desired posture in each processing unit to process the carcass accurately and with good yield.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, the dismantling work of edible birds has been carried out by slaughtering, hair removal, hollowing (removal of internal organs) in a processing plant, followed by large disintegration of a cooled carcass, as well as thigh meat, breast meat, chicken and chicken wings. It consists of a dividing process. In the case of hand judgment (manual), the large disintegration in the above process is further applied to processes such as hanging bird, internal thigh muscle insertion, joint removal, dorsal cross knife insertion, spoon insertion, peach removal, wing drop, chicken fillet insertion, chicken fillet removal etc. Separated. The above-mentioned demolition work was conventionally performed manually, but mechanization, especially automation is being considered from the viewpoint of lack of manpower and efficiency, but in automation, the carcass to be disassembled is continuously sent to various treatment steps and each step However, it is extremely difficult to mechanically satisfy the above requirements because the carcass has a complicated shape and is not rigid. However, even if it is automated, there is a problem that the yield of meat collection is very low due to inaccuracy of the cutting position.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Therefore, an object of the present invention is to move a carcass while suppressing swinging of a carcass suspended on an overhead conveyor while swinging the carcass during the dismantling work of a poultry bird, and to treat each processing section. The object of the present invention is to provide a shackle mechanism capable of accurately holding a carcass in a desired posture and processing the carcass accurately and with good yield.

[0004]

The above object can be achieved by the present invention described below. That is, the present invention, a shackle guide frame fixed to the frame of the carcass processing device, a pair of guide rails fixed in the guide frame,
A shackle carrier sandwiched in the guide rail, a shackle shaft rotatably suspended by the carrier, and a shackle portion having a forked end.
For carcass processing parts that require rotation of the shackle shaft.
A rack is formed on the guide rail to
Gear and shack that mesh with the rack
And a gear that meshes with the gear of the rotary shaft is provided.
The shackle carrier interacts with the gears to create a shackle.
A shackle mechanism of a carcass processing apparatus , wherein a knuckle shaft is automatically rotatable by a required angle only in the carcass processing section .

[0005] The shackle mechanism of the carcass processing equipment, shut
Only by the carcass processing unit that requires the rotation of the car , it is possible to rotate the carcass while it is possible to rotate the carcass suspended on the overhead conveyor while suppressing the front-back and left-right shaking of the carcass. The carcass can be held in the desired position in the section, so that the carcass can be processed accurately and with good yield.

[0006]

The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the preferred embodiments shown in the drawings. The shackle mechanism of the present invention constitutes a part of an automatic feeding bird dismantling device,
It is a carcass suspension device that is the key to the large disintegration process in the dismantling process. FIG. 4 is a plan view showing the entire automatic poultry bird dismantling device, and FIG. 5 is a front view thereof. The automatic poultry bird dismantling apparatus of this embodiment has a frame 10 that supports the entire apparatus.
0, a drive motor 102 mounted on the frame 100 to drive a chain wheel 103, an overhead conveyor chain 104 driven by the chain wheel 103, and an equal interval suspended at the frame 100 and moving at a constant speed along the shackle guide frame 105. A plurality of shackle devices (devices that fix the carcass legs and carry the carcass) 106, a tail cutter 107 that cuts and removes the tail of the carcass, a harving device 108 that half-cuts the carcass, a separating circular blade 109, Leg processor 11
0 is the main component.

The carcass shackle mechanism 106 of the present invention is fixed to the apparatus frame 100 and is connected through the mount block 2 and the mount piece 3 as shown in FIGS. Shackle guide frame 105 having 5b inside and guide rail 5
The shackle carrier 8 is sandwiched between a and 5b and is movable left and right in FIG. 1, a shackle shaft 12 suspended from the carrier 8 and a shackle portion 12a provided at the tip of the shackle portion 12a.

The pair of guide rails 5a and 5b fixed to the inside of the shackle guide frame 105 are provided with steps 5c and 5d at positions opposite to each other as shown in FIG. 2, and ride on the steps 5c and 5d. Carrier 8
Can be moved in the direction of travel. Further, the guide rails 5a and 5b are respectively formed with recesses 5e and 5f at their intermediate portions, and accommodate the first gear 9 and the second gear 10 provided in the lower portion of the carrier 8. Further, inside the guide rails 5 and 5b, the respective processing units shown in FIG. 4, that is, the tail cutter 107, the harving device 108, and the separating round blade 10 are provided.
9. At a position slightly before the position of the leg processor 110, a rack 13 (see FIGS. 1 and 3) for rotating the first gear 9 and the meshing gear 9 is formed with a constant width.

The carrier 8 is, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2,
The bolt 7 is held between the guide rails 5a and 5b.
And 11 by overhead conveyor chain 10
4 is suspended by a roller 6 and conveyed by an overhead chain 104. Further, as shown in FIG. 1, a first gear 9 is rotatably held by a bolt 7 at the rear of the lower portion of the carrier 8, and a small-diameter gear 14 is mounted on the lower portion of the gear 9 coaxially with the gear 9. There is. A shackle shaft 12 is rotatably suspended by a bush 8b at a slightly lower front portion of the carrier 8,
A second gear 10 is fixed to the gear, and the second gear 10 meshes with the small diameter gear 14. Further the second gear 1
At the lower part of 0, a posture controlling piece 15 having a square shape and rounded vertices is fixed, and the piece 15 is sandwiched by the convex portions 5g, 5h at the lower part of the guide rails 5a, 5b. The bifurcated shackle portion 12a has a tip portion bent into a clip shape as shown in FIG. 1 so that a pair of ankle portions of a carcass can be easily loaded and unloaded.

The operation of the shackle mechanism of the present invention will be described in more detail. In FIG. 5, a plurality of shackle mechanisms 106 according to the present invention are attached to the shackle guide frame 10.
The bifurcated shackle portion 12a faces the front in this state. At this position, a carcass is successively suspended by both hands on each shackle portion 12a (see FIG. 1) that advances one after another. The shackle part 12a is carried by the overhead conveyor chain 104 in the right direction in FIG. 5 without changing its direction (that is, without rotating). In FIG. 4, when the shackle mechanism 106 arrives slightly ahead of the tail cutter portion 107, the rack 13 that meshes with the gear 9 is formed on the inner surface of the guide rail 5a at that position.
Is formed (see the cross section taken along arrows AA and BB in FIGS. 1 and 2 and FIG. 3), and holds the attitude control piece 15 below the guide rails 5a and 5b from both sides. The portions 5g and 5h are enlarged to a width in which the piece 15 can rotate (see a cross section taken along the line BB in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3). In FIG. 3, when the gear 9 meshes with the rack 13 provided on the inner surface of the guide rail 5a, the gear 9 rotates by the width of the rack 13, and the small-diameter gear 14 that rotates coaxially with the gear 9 turns into the second gear 10. Slowly rotate the shackle shaft 12 connected to the second gear 10 to the required angle (eg 180
°) Shackle part 1 that is rotated and is bifurcated at the same time
2a is rotated by a predetermined angle. When this rotation is completed, the widths of the lower portions 5g, 5h of the guide rails 5a, 5b return to substantially the same as the width of one side of the attitude control piece 15 (at the same time, the rotation of the gear 9 is stopped). By the action of, the direction of the shackle shaft 12 is fixed again. In this state, the tail of the carcass is accurately cut and removed in the tail cutter area 107. The above-mentioned operation similarly acts in the subsequent harving processing section 108, the round blade area 109 and the leg processor area 110, for example, the shackle shaft 12 rotates 0 °, 90 ° and 90 °, respectively, and finally the shackle shaft 12 The shackle portion 12a returns to the original position in which the shackle portion 12a faces the front.

According to the present invention as described above, the shackle mechanism of the carcass processing apparatus is provided with a shackle that requires rotation of the shackle.
By allowing the carcass to rotate by the required angle automatically only in the carcass processing unit, the carcass can be moved while suppressing the forward / backward / left / right shaking of the carcass suspended on the overhead conveyor, and the carcass can be placed in the desired posture in each processing unit. The carcass can be processed accurately and with good yield.

[0012]

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a shackle mechanism.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the structure of a shackle mechanism.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a structure of a shackle mechanism.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a plane view of the entire automatic bird dismantling apparatus.

FIG. 5 is a view showing the entire front surface of the automatic poultry bird dismantling device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2: Mount block 3: Mount piece 5a, 5b: Guide rail 5c, 5d: Step 6: Roller 7,11: Bolt 8: Shackle carrier 8b: Bush 9,10, 14: Gear 12: Shackle shaft 12a: Shackle part 13 : Rack 15: Posture control piece 100: Device frame 102: Drive motor 103: Chain wheel 104: Overhead conveyor chain 105: Shackle guide frame 106: Shackle mechanism 107: Tail cutter 108: Harbing device 109: Round blade for separation 110: Leg processor

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A pair of shackle guide frames fixed to a frame of a carcass processing apparatus, a pair of guide rails fixed in the guide frames, a shackle carrier sandwiched in the guide rails, and the carrier. To
The shackle shaft is rotatably suspended and the shackle part has a bifurcated tip to rotate the shackle shaft.
The guide rail in the carcass processing section that needs to be
A rack is formed on the shackle carrier.
Engages with gears that mesh with racks and shackle shaft gears
Gears are provided, and the rack and the shackle carrier are provided.
The shackle shaft by the interaction with the gear of the
Shackle mechanism of carcass processing apparatus characterized that it is possible automatically required angular rotation only in the carcass processing unit. 2. A square posture control piece is fixed to the shackle shaft, and the pair of guide rails in the carcass processing section further has a gap having a width slightly larger than the length of one side of the piece and the piece. and There enlarged portion rotatable is formed
The shackle mechanism of the carcass processing device according to claim 1 . Wherein the tip of the bifurcated shackle portion is bent into a clip shape, claim ankle carcasses and is detachably installed 1
The shackle mechanism of the carcass processing device according to.