KR20110010025A

KR20110010025A - Tilting type slughtering apparatus

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Publication number: KR20110010025A
Application number: KR1020090067525A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 장현숙
Original assignee: 농업회사법인 한팜 주식회사; 장현숙
Priority date: 2009-07-23
Filing date: 2009-07-23
Publication date: 2011-01-31

Abstract

PURPOSE: A tilting butchery apparatus is provided to prevent accident occurrence and to improve meat quality. CONSTITUTION: A tilting butchery apparatus comprises: an apparatus body(110) in which an animal is received and which tilts to the side direction; a tilting device which rotates the apparatus body in order for an outlet to face upward; a neck holder(120) which is movably mounted up and down at the front side of the apparatus body and fixes the animal's neck; and a lifting device for moving the neck holder up and down.

Description

Tilting Slaughter Equipment {TILTING TYPE SLUGHTERING APPARATUS}

The present invention relates to a slaughter apparatus, and more particularly, to automate the slaughtering process to improve productivity and cost efficiency, to prevent the occurrence of safety accidents during work, and to minimize the residual blood in the carcase during slaughter to improve the quality of meat. A tiltable slaughter apparatus that can improve and extend shelf life.

As a way of slaughtering edible livestock such as cows or pigs, the method of applying mechanical impacts such as beating a crown or applying an electric shock by electric shock to a high-voltage current was mainly used.

However, since the slaughter method performs blood bleeding while the animal is dead, poor blood bleeding results in poor blood retaining in the carcass, resulting in fishy fishy, poor meat and taste, and short meat. There was a problem such as discoloration and deterioration easily.

In order to solve this problem, it is known that the animal can be stunned to housework and then cut off the neck or artery to perform bleeding to reduce the blood remaining in the carcase to obtain better meat.

However, the above-described conventional slaughter methods rely on the manual labor of the worker to perform a series of slaughter processes such as putting the animal into housework, cutting the animal's neck or blood vessels, and hanging the animal and bleeding it, thus causing severe physical and physical injury to the worker. In addition to the mental burden, industrialized slaughter process requires a large number of skilled personnel, even a skilled worker takes a lot of time to slaughter, there was a problem that the cost efficiency and productivity falls.

Moreover, animals must be fixed and their position and posture changed to be suitable for the task during the slaughter process, which is not equipped with effective means for this, and thus requires more labor and time for the task, especially during the slaughter operation. There was a high risk of safety accidents, such as worker injuries due to reflex movement.

On the other hand, as a device for slaughter of animals as shown in FIG.

The hanging guide device is a rectangular frame 10, the animal is to be slaughtered therein, a sliding plate 20 is installed in the bottom of the frame 10 is rotated up and down around the fixed shaft 14, Is installed on the side wall portion of the frame 10 is provided with a separating operation plate 30 and the like to be moved up and down to adjust the size of the opening 15. The animal enters the interior of the frame 10 in a state where the sliding plate 20 is horizontally arranged, and when the animal is turned over by tilting the sliding plate 20 by pulling the elevating operation line 21. The rear leg portion is drawn out to the outside of the frame 10 through the opening 15, and can be connected to the shackle chain by connecting the drawn rear leg with a string, so that the animal can be slaughtered more easily by hanging the head downward. To be able.

However, the conventional apparatus described above performs preliminary work for slaughter, and the actual slaughter still depends on the manual labor of the operator, so that the problem of low productivity and cost efficiency of the slaughter work is the same.

Moreover, the slaughter is carried out in a state in which the animal's consciousness is awake and without any means of limiting the movements of the whole body, but only by hanging the animal. There is still a high risk problem.

The present invention is to solve the problems described above, it is possible to improve the productivity and cost efficiency by automating the slaughter process and to prevent the occurrence of safety accidents during the operation, the quality of meat by minimizing the residual blood in the carcases during slaughter It is an object of the present invention to provide a tilting slaughter apparatus capable of improving the quality and extending the shelf life.

The present invention for achieving the above object, the body is accommodated therein is provided with a discharge port which is opened and closed by a door in the side portion and is installed sideways tiltable; Tilting means for rotating the outlet so that the main body is laterally tilted; A neck locker installed to be movable up and down in the front part of the main body to pressurize and fix the neck of the animal housed in the main body; Lifting means for moving the neck lock up and down; And it provides a tilting slaughter apparatus comprising an airway pressurizer for inducing the housework state by asphyxiation by pressing the airway of the animal fixed to the neck by the neck lock.

In the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention described above, the neck fixing device is preferably provided with a concave seating portion into which the neck of the animal is inserted.

In this case, the airway pressurizer is a holder fixed to the lower portion of the neck fixing device, a pressure rod movably coupled to protrude into the seat portion to the holder, and a spring for elastically supporting the pressure rod toward the seat portion It is more preferably configured to include.

Preferably, the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention further includes a blood vessel cutting machine which is provided at the front of the main body or the neck fixing device and cuts blood vessels of the animal which is housed by the airway presser.

The blood vessel cutting machine includes a cutter support installed on the neck fixing device, a cutter moving means for reciprocating the cutter support toward an animal, a cutter rotatably coupled to the cutter support, and the cutter moving means. It can be configured to include a cutter rotation means for rotating the cutter invaded around the blood vessels of the animal by cutting the blood vessel.

In addition, the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention is provided with a rotational mouth rotatably coupled to the front or the neck fixing device of the main body and a rotation means for rotating the rotatable head to lean the head of the animal upwards It is preferable to further comprise a motive.

More preferably, it may further comprise a rear stopper rotatably coupled vertically to the rear of the main body, and a rotation means for rotating the rear stopper to block the retreat of the animal entered into the main body.

The tilting means may include a pivoting shaft provided on at least one side of the main body and a fluid or electric actuator for rotating the main body about the pivotal axis.

According to the present invention as described above has the following advantages.

(1) By accommodating the animal in the body to automatically perform the fixation and posture conversion for slaughter, there is an effect that can reduce the manpower costs required for manual work, and improve the productivity of the slaughter process.

(2) Choke the animal by choking the animal by airway pressure, and in this state, blood vessels are cut in this state to achieve a more perfect bleeding, thereby inhibiting meat degradation and deterioration due to blood remaining inside the carcass. It has the effect of improving the quality and preservation.

(3) The neck fixing device has a concave seating portion corresponding to the neck shape of the animal so that the animal can be firmly fixed without applying excessive force, thereby preventing damage to the conductor.

(4) The pressure bar of the airway pressurizer is elastically supported by a spring so that excessive force is not applied to the neck of the animal, thereby preventing damage to the conductor.

(5) By automatically cutting blood vessels by means of a blood vessel cutting machine equipped with a neck locker without manual labor, there is an effect of eliminating the risk of a safety accident during work and improving productivity through rapid work.

(6) By cutting the blood vessels through the invasion and rotation of the cutter, the blood vessel cutter has the effect of reducing the carcass damage by reducing the size of the incision remaining in the neck area when the blood vessel is cut.

(7) By allowing the head of the animal to be fixed in the tilted state through the head synchronizer, airway pressure and blood vessel cutting are made more quickly and accurately, thereby improving productivity.

(8) By providing a rear stopper at the rear of the main body to prevent the retreat of the entered animal and limit the position, it is possible to maintain the position and posture of the animal accurately to suit the work, thereby improving work efficiency and productivity. .

The objects, features and advantages of the present invention described above will become more apparent from the following detailed description. Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 and 3 are front views each showing an embodiment of the tiltable slaughter apparatus according to the present invention in an operating state in which the main body is established and a tilted operating state, and FIG. 4 is a slaughter apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG. Side view.

As shown in the slaughter apparatus of the present invention, the main body 110 is installed on the upper part of the base 100 so as to be tilted laterally, and tilting means for tilting the main body 110 laterally is provided.

The main body 110 accommodates the animal 10 that is slaughtered therein, and may be formed in various forms. In this embodiment, the main body 110 is formed in the form of a cubic frame in which the front and the rear are open.

One side portion of the main body 110 is provided with a discharge port 111 for discharging the treated animal 10, the door 112 for opening and closing the discharge port 111 is provided. The door 112 has a structure that is rotated to open and close to the side, the expansion fluid cylinder type door actuator 113 is installed as an operation means for opening and closing the door 112.

On the front side of the main body 110, a neck stabilizer 120 which is lifted up and down is installed, and an airway presser 130, a head pivoter 140, and a blood vessel cutter 150 are installed on the neck fixture 120. A lifting fluid cylinder type lifting actuator 122 is installed as an operation means for lifting the neck lock 120.

The neck stabilizer 120 is raised to press the neck of the animal 10 to fix the position of the animal 10, the upper portion is provided with a concave seating portion 121 is inserted into the neck of the animal (10).

The airway pressurizer 130 is to induce the housework state by asphyxiation by accurately pressing the airway part of the animal 10 fixed by the neck lock 120, the seating portion 121 of the neck lock 120 A holder 131 fixed to a lower portion, a pressure rod 132 coupled to the holder 131 so as to be protruded into the seating portion 121, and having an end portion rounded; It consists of a spring 133 elastically supported toward the seating portion 121.

The head swivel 140 is to fold the head of the animal 10 fixed by the neck lock 120 to the rear, the gap U is rotatably coupled to the front end of the neck lock 120 It consists of a rotational actuator 142 of a telescopic fluid cylinder type provided with an actuating means for rotating the rotational opening 141 and the child-shaped rotational opening (141).

The vascular cutter 150 cuts major blood vessels, such as the carotid artery, which is inherent in the neck of the animal 10 whose head is flipped by the head synchronizer 140, and will be described with reference to FIG. 5. The cutter supporter 151 provided so that the neck fixing device 120 can be elevated, the telescopic fluid cylinder type moving actuator 152 which is a means for reciprocating the cutter supporter 151 up and down, and the said cutter supporter ( A cutter 153 rotatably coupled to the 151, and a cutting actuator 154 of a flexible fluid cylinder type that is a means for rotating the cutter 153.

Although not shown, the neck fixing device 120 is provided with a sensor to detect the blood vessel position of the animal 10 so that the operation of the blood vessel cutter 150 may be automatically performed. In addition, a hot water cleaner for spraying water of high temperature (82 ° C. or higher) to clean and disinfect the cutter 153 after the operation of the blood vessel cutter 150 is provided.

The rear stabilizer 160 is installed at the rear side of the main body 110. The rear stabilizer 160 blocks the rear of the main body 110 after the animal enters the main body 110 to prevent the animal 10 from escaping its position, that is, to maintain the correct position for processing. It is coupled to the upper portion of the main body 110 to be rotatable in the vertical direction is rotated upward to allow the entry of the animal 10 or downward to block the rear portion such as the buttocks of the animal (10). As an actuating means for the rotation of the rear stabilizer 160, an actuator 161 of a flexible fluid cylinder type is also provided.

The tilting means tilts the main body 110 laterally so that the outlet 111 is upward so that the animal 10 accommodated in the main body 110 is positioned in a position suitable for performing each step of the slaughtering process. It comprises a tilting support means for supporting the tiltable side 110 to the side and the tilting actuator 181 to rotate the main body 110 around the tilting support means to tilt sideways.

The tilting support means may be provided in various ways according to the structure of the main body 110, in the illustrated embodiment, the pivot shaft 119 is provided at the lower front and rear sides of the main body 110, respectively, the pivot shaft It is illustrated that 119 is coupled to the front and rear of the base 100 via the bearing 109.

The tilting actuator 181 is illustrated as being made of a fluid cylinder that is expanded and contracted according to the fluid supply, it may be made of an electric actuator.

Referring to the operation of the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention configured as described above are as follows.

First, as illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 4, the animal 10 enters into the main body 110 through an open rear part in a state in which the main body 110 is established. At this time, the neck stopper 120 is in a downwardly moved position, the rear stopper 160 maintains the upwardly rotated position to facilitate the entry of the animal 10, the door 112 is Keep closed.

When the animal 10 enters the main body 110, the rear stabilizer 160 is rotated downward to block the rear portion of the animal 10 by the actuator 161. When the animal 10 is stably received through this, the neck stopper 120 is moved upward by the elevating actuator 122 to press-fix the neck portion of the animal 10.

Along with this, the pivoting hole 141 of the head pivoting machine 140 is pivoted upward by the pivoting actuator 142 so that the head of the animal 10 is flipped upward, and the pressure rod of the airway presser 130 132 is strongly pressing the airway portion of the animal (10). As a result, when the animal 10 is suffocated and a predetermined time elapses, the animal 10 reaches a house state. At this time, since the airway pressurizer 130 is elastically supported by the spring 133, damage such as perforation or necrosis of the neck of the animal 10 is prevented due to excessive pressing force.

When the animal 10 is in a house state as described above, the main body 110 is tilted by the tilting means. That is, the main body 110 is tilted laterally around the pivot shaft 119 by the contracting operation of the tilting actuator 181, and the outlet 111 is disposed upward as shown in FIG. 3.

At this time, the tilting angle of the main body 110 is preferably 90 ° or more with respect to the established state. That is, it is preferable that the head of the animal 10 is disposed lower than the torso to smoothly bleed after vascular cutting.

As such, when the animal 10 is in a side lying position by lowering its head, blood vessel cutting of the animal 10 is performed by the blood vessel cutter 150. Referring to the operation of the blood vessel cutter 150, first, when the position of the blood vessel is detected by the sensor, the cutter support 151 is moved downward toward the animal 10 by the moving actuator 152, accordingly The cutter 153 penetrates to the side of the blood vessel to be cut while poking the neck of the animal 10. After the intrusion of the cutter 153 is made, the cutter 153 is rotated laterally by the cutting actuator 154, whereby the blood vessel of the animal 10 is cut by the cutter 153. After the blood vessel is cut, the cutting actuator 154 and the moving actuator 152 are sequentially operated in the opposite direction to the above cutting process so that the cutter 153 is rotated in the original direction and then drawn out of the animal 10. Return to the original position.

As described above, since the blood vessel cutter 150 is automatically operated according to the detection of the sensor to cut blood vessels, there is no fear of occurrence of a safety accident of an operator and productivity is improved through rapid operation. Furthermore, since the blood vessel cutter 150 cuts blood vessels through the penetration and rotation of the cutter 153, the incision portion that remains on the neck portion is cut compared to the case where the neck portion around the blood vessel is cut using a conventional knife. Minimized size has the advantage of reducing meat damage.

When the blood vessel is cut as described above, the door 112 is opened to discharge the animal 10 inside the main body 110 to the outside. At this time, the animal 10 is suspended by the pull rope, such as a wire rope or chain to the head down on the suspension, in this state is made of blood bleeding through the cut of the blood vessel.

On the other hand, the cutter 153 is washed and disinfected by hot water sprayed through the hot water cleaner after the blood vessel is cut.

As described above, in the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention, a series of processes such as fixation, posture change, and blood vessel cutting of the animal 10 are automatically performed by simply entering the animal 10 into the main body 110. Since the manual labor of the worker is hardly needed, manpower cost is reduced, and the time required for the slaughter process is shortened, thereby improving productivity.

In addition, by choking the animal 10 by the airway presser 130 to induce the housework state, that is, the blood vessels are cut in this state, that is, the animal 10 is alive, so that more perfect blood loss is achieved inside the conductor. Residuals can minimize the blood loss that degrades meat and promotes degeneration. Accordingly, there is an advantage that can improve the quality of the meat and increase shelf life to extend the shelf life.

On the other hand, the main body 110 may be provided in various forms, such as cylindrical or prismatic, as well as the frame structure of the illustrated cubic shape, and may also be provided in a variety of structures, such as a plate structure or a network structure, the shape of the main body 110 and Depending on the structure, the tilting means in various ways may be provided. For example, the tilting means may be formed of an electric actuator in addition to the illustrated fluid cylinder, and in some cases, a chain and a sprocket, a gear, a belt, a pulley, and the like, which tilt the body by transmitting the rotational force of the motor as a power source and transmitting the motor. It may be provided with a conventional power transmission mechanism.

In addition, the main body 110 is not only a structure supported on the upper portion of the base 100 fixed on the ground, but also coupled to the lower portion of the structure fixed to the upper structure in a variety of support structures that can be tilted Can be installed by.

In addition, the actuators constituting the operation means of the respective parts, such as the door actuator 113, the lifting actuator 122, the rotary actuator 142, the cutting actuator 154, the actuator 161, as well as the illustrated fluid cylinder, It can be made of a conventional actuator of various methods such as an electric actuator that enables a linear motion or a rotational motion by using the rotational force.

And, in some cases, the head synchronizer 140, airway press 130, blood vessel cutter 150, etc. are installed at any position of the main body 110 in addition to the neck lock 120 of the neck lock 120 It may be configured to move and operate independently of the lifting operation.

The present invention described above is not limited to the above-described embodiment and the accompanying drawings, and various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible within the scope without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention. It will be evident to those who have knowledge of.

1 is a front view showing a conventional slaughter apparatus.

2 is a front view showing an embodiment of a tilting slaughter apparatus according to the present invention.

3 is a front view showing the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG. 2 with the main body tilted.

4 is a side view of the tiltable slaughter apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG.

Figure 5 is a detailed view of the vascular cutter in the tilting slaughter apparatus of the present invention shown in FIG.

Description of the Related Art

10: slaughter animal 100: base

101: support roller 102: pedestal

110: body 112: door

113: door actuator 120: neck lock

121: seating groove 122: elevating actuator

130: airway pressurizer 131: holder

132: pressure bar 133: spring

140: tofu dong 141: Hoedong-gu

142: rotational actuator 150: blood vessel cutting machine

151: cutter support 152: moving actuator

153: cutter 154: cutting actuator

160: rear lock 181: tilting actuator

Claims

A main body accommodated in the slaughter and provided with a discharge opening to be opened and closed by a door at a side portion thereof and installed to be tilted laterally;

Tilting means for rotating the outlet so that the main body is laterally tilted;

A neck locker installed to be movable up and down in the front part of the main body to pressurize and fix the neck of the animal housed in the main body;

Lifting means for moving the neck lock up and down; And

A tilting slaughter apparatus comprising an airway pressurizer for inducing a housework state by suffocation by pressing the airway of the animal fixed to the neck by the neck lock.

The method of claim 1,

Tilting slaughter apparatus, characterized in that the neck lock is provided with a recessed seat portion is inserted into the neck of the animal.

The method of claim 2,

The airway pressurizer includes a holder fixed to a seating portion lower portion of the neck fixing device, a pressure rod movably coupled to the holder so as to protrude into the seating portion, and a spring for elastically supporting the pressure rod toward the seating portion. Tilting slaughter apparatus, characterized in that.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,

Tilting slaughter apparatus further comprises a blood vessel cutter for cutting the blood vessels of the animal is housed by the airway presser in front of the main body or the neck lock.

The method of claim 4, wherein

The blood vessel cutting machine includes a cutter support installed on the neck fixing device, a cutter moving means for reciprocating the cutter support toward an animal, a cutter rotatably coupled to the cutter support, and the cutter moving means. And a cutter rotation means for rotating the cutter invading around the blood vessel of the animal to cut the blood vessel.

The method of claim 4, wherein

And a head rotator having the pivoting means rotatably coupled to the front or the neck stopper of the main body and a pivoting means for rotating the pivoting device to lean the head of the animal upwards. Tilting slaughter system.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,

And a rear stopper coupled to the rear of the main body so as to be rotatable vertically, and a rotation means for rotating the rear stopper to block the retreat of the animal that has entered the main body.

The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,

And the tilting means comprises a pivot shaft which is provided on at least one side of the main body and forms a rotation center and a fluid or electric actuator that rotates the main body about the pivot axis.