JPH10210926A - Device for treating vicera of poultry - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce labor and improve treating capacity by mechanically and automatically separating connected vicera pulled out from a poultry body without using man powder. SOLUTION: This viscus treatment device is composed of a conveyer 1 having many shackles 3 for holding the both legs and having down the body and an vicera-separating machine 11 having two rod-like member 12 gradually narrowing gap 13 toward the carrying direction of the conveyer 1 and the vicera are inserted into the gap 13 and the rod-like members 12 are rotated from the body to the pulling direction and the vicera are separated by forcibly pulling the vicera when carried.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an apparatus for separating a removed internal organ from a torso in a processing step of a poultry bird, and an apparatus for separating an edible internal organ from the separated internal organ.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Poultry processing is generally performed in the order of slaughter, depilation, hollowing out (removal of internal organs), inspection, demolition, and weighing. In addition to dismantling the body for each part and shipping, it also sorts and ships edible internal organs.

[0003] The removal of internal organs from a carcass, which is referred to as hollowing out, is disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 50-16268 and Japanese Patent Publication No. Sho 56-56.
As described in, for example, JP-A-39606, an automatic unloading technique has been researched and developed for a long time. In addition, regarding dismantling, Japanese Patent Publication No. 60-18371,
As described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 1-333143, various automatic dismantling techniques have been researched and developed.

[0004]

The internal organs are generally taken out from the anus, and after being connected to the torso, inspected for the presence of pathogenic bacteria and then separated, and the torso is disassembled into breasts, thighs, wings, etc. On the other hand, edible offal is separated from offal.

[0005] The work of separating the internal organs from the torso is performed manually by pulling the internal organs by hand and separating the internal organs with human power. It is manually separated from the edible internal organs such as the intestine.

That is, although the removal of the internal organs and the dismantling of the torso are automated as described above, the separation of the internal organs from the torso and the separation of the edible internal organs from the internal organs among them are manual. Currently, they rely on work, and in factories that process a large number of poultry birds, there is a concern that health problems such as swelling and pain of the fingers of workers may occur.

Also, if a manual process is present in an automated process, the overall processing capacity will be reduced. If the number of workers is increased to improve the processing capacity, the cost will increase and there will be an economic disadvantage. Occurs.

Therefore, the present invention significantly reduces the number of manual processes in the internal organ processing step, ie, the step of separating internal organs from the body, or the step of further separating edible internal organs from internal organs, In particular, the separation itself, which requires a strong force on the fingers, is performed automatically, so that a small number of workers can perform internal organ processing on a large number of poultry birds without causing health problems and problems with throughput. It was invented with an object to do so.

[0009]

That is, the present invention comprises a step of separating the internal organs from the torso, including a plurality of shackles holding both legs of the torso, and suspending the plurality of torso along a predetermined path in a suspended state. A conveyor to be conveyed; comprising two bar-shaped members arranged along the path of the conveyor at a position close to the anus of the suspended body and having a gradually narrowing gap in the conveying direction, wherein the two bar-shaped members are And an internal organ separator that is rotated in a direction of pulling and separating the sandwiched internal organs from the trunk as the conveyor is transported by the conveyor.

[0010] The internal organs connected to the torso have the intestinal part sandwiched between two rod-like members arranged near the anus,
The edible internal organs are forcibly pulled by the narrowing gap without damaging or collapsing and eventually detached from the torso so as to be able to tear them off.

In the present invention, the step of further separating the edible internal organs from the internal organs separated from the trunk is performed by setting at least one valley at the top and having a slot extending downward from the bottom of the valley to be in an upright state. It was carried out by means of a device comprising a sorting plate member and an edible offal separator comprising blades arranged across the slot.

When the internal organs are divided into edible internal organs and non-edible internal organs by hand and hooked on the sorting plate member in a distributed manner, blood vessels or muscles that slide down along the valley and connect the two parts to the slot. It fits and falls further, causing blood vessels and muscles to bite into the knife and be cut by the weight of the internal organs, thereby separating the edible internal organs.

As described above, either of the operation of separating the internal organs from the torso, which requires a strong force on the fingers and causing a decrease in processing capacity, and the operation of further separating the edible internal organs from the internal organs are automated, It has become possible to reduce the labor of the worker and improve the processing capacity.

Further, when the apparatus having the above-mentioned conveyor and internal organ separator is used together with the apparatus having the above-mentioned edible internal organ separator, the labor of the worker is greatly reduced and the processing capacity is greatly improved. be able to.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to the drawings, an embodiment of the present invention will be described. In FIG. 1 schematically showing the overall arrangement, 1 is a conveyor, 11 is an internal organ separator, and 21 is an edible internal organ. A separator, wherein two sets thereof are arranged in parallel close to each other.

The conveyor 1 is endless and continuously or intermittently travels in one direction. As shown in FIG. 2, the internal organs B taken out from the anus in the hollowing-out process are connected. An endless cable 2 composed of a V-belt, a wire rope, a chain, etc.
A plurality of shackles 3 are hung at regular intervals, and the endless cable 2 is engaged with a pulley, a sprocket, or the like, and driven in one direction by a motor (not shown).

The shackle 3 is for extending and hooking the leg A1 of the body A and hanging the body A upside down.
It has a structure similar to that described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 16944, Japanese Patent Publication No. 41533/1986, and the like.

An internal organ separator 11 is arranged along a part of the traveling path of the conveyor 1. This offal separator 11
Is located slightly below and outward of the shackle 3, and two long conical rod-shaped members 12 each having a gradually increasing diameter in the running direction of the conveyor 1 are vertically arranged side by side, and are arranged in parallel. Between them, a gap 13 is formed which gradually narrows in the direction of travel of the conveyor 1, and the two rod-like members 12, 12 are rotated from the side where the shackle 3 is located toward the gap 13. , Are driven to rotate in opposite directions by a transmission mechanism and a prime mover (not shown).

Below the internal organ separator 11, a body A
A belt-type conveyor 15 is provided in a direction parallel to the conveyor 1 to collect the internal organs B separated from the conveyor 1 or to send the organs B to the next processing work place.

When the body A with the removed internal organs B connected is hooked and held on the shackle 3 with the legs A1 expanded by the operator, the body A is hung upside down.
The anus will be located slightly below the shackle 3 and close to the gap 13 of the internal organ separator 11 which is arranged outside.

The work of suspending the body A on the shackle 3 is performed by using an appropriate space on the entrance side or the exit side of the internal organ separator 11. When the torso A to which the internal organs B are connected approaches the entrance of the internal organ separator 11, the internal organs B are inserted into the gap 13 through the main intestine, which is close to the anus, as needed. Most parts, including internal organs, are located on the opposite side.

Since the gap 13 is large at the entrance of the internal organ separator 11, the internal organ B is hooked on the lower rod-shaped member 12 as shown in FIG. 2B, and is conveyed while sliding on its surface. As shown in FIG. 2C, the gap 13 becomes narrower, and two rod-shaped members 12 and
When 12 comes into pressure contact, the rod-shaped member 12 rotates in the direction toward the gap 13 from the side surface inside the anus,
And the gap 13 gradually narrows, so that the internal organs B
Is forcibly pulled, the internal organs remaining inside the body A are pulled out, and a further breaking force is applied. As the pulling proceeds, the amount of internal organs remaining on the anal side becomes small, but the gap 13 is further narrowed, so that the pin-shaped members 12, 12 are kept in a state of being pressed against each other, as shown in FIG. 2 (D). A is separated from A and falls on the conveyor 15.

Therefore, it is only necessary to manually hang the body A on the shackle 3 and suspend it, insert the internal organs B into the gap 13 if necessary, and remove the main body A from which the internal organs B are separated from the shackle 3. In addition, the separation of the internal organs B requiring a strong force is automatically performed by a mechanical pulling force, so that the labor of the operator can be reduced and the processing capacity can be improved.

The rod members 12, 12 are shown in FIGS.
A ridge 1 extending in the longitudinal direction on the outer peripheral surface as shown in FIG.
4 is suitably provided so that these ridges 14 can bite into the internal organs and can be pulled without slipping.

Further, the rod-shaped member 12 having a uniform length in its entirety may be used and arranged in a non-parallel state so that the gap 13 becomes narrower toward the outlet side, or one of the rod-shaped members 12 may have a length as shown in the drawing. The gap 13 may be arranged in parallel or non-parallel so that it has a conical shape and the other has a uniform length over the entire length so that the gap 13 becomes narrower toward the outlet side.

Next, the conveyor 1 for transporting the separated internal organs
5, a belt-type conveyor 17 for feeding the internal organs to a space for sorting and separating edible internal organs is installed, and a plurality of edible conveyers are provided in the side of the conveyor 17 in the running direction of the conveyor 17. The internal organ separators 21 are arranged at appropriate intervals.

Referring mainly to FIGS. 1, 3 and 4, the edible offal separator 21 has a plurality of valleys 23 each formed of an isosceles triangular notch on one side of a rectangular metal or hard synthetic resin plate. Are formed adjacent to each other, and a sorting plate member 22 provided with a slot 24 extending from the bottom of each valley 23 in a direction perpendicular to the one side, and one end is superimposed on the surface of the sorting plate member 22. It is fixed by a set screw 26 and the slot 24
A plurality of elongated plate-like blades 25 arranged obliquely across
And is constituted by.

The sorting plate member 22 is in an upright state with the valley 23 facing upward, and the blade 25 is bent at a fixed end portion using a set screw 26 and diagonally downwards while gradually separating from the surface of the sorting plate member 22. Extending.

Further, a chute 28 for sliding down the non-edible internal organs and guiding the non-edible internal organs to the belt-type conveyor 27 is provided below the sorting plate member 22 and the conveyor 17, and is opposed to the conveyor 17 of the sorting plate member 22. A trough 29 for sliding the edible internal organs is installed at an angle below the side, and the tip of the blade 25 reaches above a side edge of the trough 29.

The internal organs B separated from the body by the internal organ separator 11 and conveyed on the conveyor 17
Is selected by an operator waiting in front of the edible offal separator 21 and is manually divided into an edible offal B1 mainly composed of the liver and a non-edible offal B2 mainly composed of the intestine. 2
Hook the top edge of 2 evenly.

At this time, it is necessary to take care that the edible offal B1 is located on the trough 29 side and the non-edible offal B2 is located on the chute 28 side.

Then, blood vessels and muscles connecting the edible viscera B1 and the non-edible viscera B2, and a part of the viscera slide down along the valley 23, fall into the slot 24 as it is, and further fall. At this time, the edible viscera B1 and the non-edible viscera B2 are pulled toward a large weight due to a difference in weight. However, the sorting plate member 22 serves as a wall to maintain a distributed state, and a thin portion such as a blood vessel is a blade. 25.

The blade 25 may be installed so as to cross the slot 24 at a right angle. However, if the knife 25 is installed obliquely downward while gradually moving away from the sorting plate member 22 as shown in FIG. The blood vessels and the like that bite into the blade 25 at a position approaching the sorting plate member 22 as in the above) are cut along the blade 25 in a tensioned state because the non-edible internal organs B2 are blocked by the sorting member 22. Downhill while proceeding,
The edible offal B1 can be reliably cut without damage.

Therefore, the edible internal organs B1 are automatically separated by their own weight only by manually dividing the internal organs B into two parts and hooking them on the sorting plate member 22 in a distributed manner. Reduction and improvement in processing capacity can be realized.

As shown in FIG. 4 (D), the edible internal organs B1 cut near the lower end, which is a place considerably separated from the sorting plate member 22 of the cutting tool 25, fall as they are onto the trough 29 and slide on the lower part. It is collected and sent to the process of removing unnecessary parts, weighing and shipping. On the other hand, the non-edible viscera B2 falls directly onto the conveyor 27 through the chute 28 and is sent to a step of separating edible parts such as gizzard contained therein.

In the illustrated embodiment, one edible offal separator 2
1 is at least one valley 23 and a corresponding slot 2
4, a plurality of blades 25, and
Since the arrangement is arranged in a line along the line 7, even if a large number of internal organs are sent continuously, processing can be performed without stagnation.

The offal separator 11 and the edible offal separator 21
Is not limited to being arranged side by side on one processing line as shown in the figure, but may be used to reduce labor in visceral separation or edible offal separation using one of them to improve the processing capacity. is there.

In the embodiment shown in the figure, two processing lines including the internal organ separator 11 and the edible internal organ separator 21 are arranged in parallel in two rows close to each other, and a trough 29 for conveying edible internal organs and non-edible internal organs. Since the conveyor 27 and the conveyor 27 are arranged between the two lines, a large amount of internal organs can be processed very efficiently in a narrow place.

[0039]

As described above, according to the present invention, the separation between the internal organs and the torso, or the separation between the edible internal organs and the non-edible internal organs, which was manually performed by the operator, is automatically performed. A small number of workers can process a large number of birds with high efficiency without requiring much labor.

Further, since the internal organs and the body are separated by mechanical pulling, and the edible internal organs and the non-edible internal organs are separated by cutting using their own weight, the structure is simple. In addition, there is an advantage that the power is small and an advantage that the number of failures is small.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIGS. 1A and 1B are schematic layout diagrams showing an embodiment of the present invention, in which FIG. 1A is a longitudinal sectional view and FIG. 1B is a plan view.

2A and 2B are views showing the internal organ separator in the form shown in FIG. 1, wherein FIG. 2A is a front view, and FIGS. 2B, 2C, and 2D are cross-sectional views for explaining a separation step.

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken along line XX of FIG. 1 (B).

4A and 4B are views showing the edible offal separator in the form shown in FIG. 1, wherein FIG. 4A is a front view, and FIG.
Sectional drawing along a Y line, (C), (D) is sectional drawing explaining the isolation | separation process.

[Description of Signs] 1 Conveyor, 3 Shackle, 11 Built-in Separator, 1
2 rod-shaped member, 13 gap, 21 edible offal separator, 22
Sorting plate member, 23 valleys, 24 slots, 25 blades.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A conveyor that includes a plurality of shackles for holding both legs of a fuselage to which internal organs extracted by a hollowing-out process are connected, and that transports a large number of the fuselage along a predetermined path in a suspended state; The apparatus includes two bar-shaped members that are arranged along the path of the conveyor at a position close to the anus of the suspended body and that have a gradually narrowing gap in the transport direction, and the two bar-shaped members are sandwiched in the gap. A viscera separating device that is rotated in a direction of pulling and separating the internal organs from the trunk as the conveyor is transported by the conveyor; 2. An upright sorting plate member having at least one valley at the top and having a slot extending downward from the bottom of the valley, and a cutting tool arranged across the slot. An edible offal separator for separating edible offal from an offal separated from the trunk; 3. A conveyor that includes a plurality of shackles for holding both legs of a body to which internal organs taken out by the hollowing-out process are connected, and that conveys the plurality of bodies along a predetermined path in a suspended state; The apparatus includes two bar-shaped members that are arranged along the path of the conveyor at a position close to the anus of the suspended body and that have a gradually narrowing gap in the transport direction, and the two bar-shaped members are sandwiched in the gap. An internal organ separator that is rotated in a direction to pull and separate the internal organs from the fuselage as the conveyor conveys the internal organs; and an upright state having at least one valley at the top and a slot extending downward from the bottom of the valley. A sorting plate member, and a blade arranged across the slot,
An edible offal separator for further separating edible offal from the offal separated from the torso.