US2518231A

US2518231A - Fowl slaughtering device

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Publication number: US2518231A
Application number: US36059A
Authority: US
Inventors: Lawrence K Fudge
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1948-06-30
Filing date: 1948-06-30
Publication date: 1950-08-08
Anticipated expiration: 1967-08-08

Description

' Aug. 8, 1950' .K"." FUDGE 2,518,231

' FOWL'SLAUGHTERING DEVICE Filed June so, 1948 awrehae e Patented Aug. 8, 1950 FOWL SLAUGHTERING DEVICE Lawrence K. Fudge, Berthoud, 0010., assignor tov Alexander B. Pick'ands, Chicago, Ill.

Application June 30, 1948, Serial N 0. 36,059

2 Claims.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in fowl slaughtering devices. It has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character which will be highly efiicient in use and economical in manufacture.

A principal object of the invention is the provision of a device of this character having a body receiving tube open at its lower end whereby a fowl projected into said tube head first, will be disposed in said tube with its head projecting substantially from the open end thereof so that the head may be conveniently grasped in one hand while operated upon by a sticking tool for puncturing the brain of the fowl.

Another object of the invention is to provide below a fowl-receiving tube, a drip box communicating with a suitable drain pipe for draining and collecting the drippings for suitable disposal thereof.

Finally an object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which will be substantially sanitary.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings showing the preferred form of construction, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional detail view of the same.

In carrying my invention into effect, I provide a mounting structure indicated generally at ID. This mounting structure includes a base plate I I, a back wall l2 and side walls l3.

Supported from the upper portion of the back wall l2 by means of straps M or the like, and spaced from the back wall l2 by a spacing block I 5, is a tube Hi. This tube I6 is open at its opposite end portions and is funnel-shaped. In this tube I 6, the fowl to be slaughtered is projected. The tube, being funnel-shaped, prevents the fowl from passing therethrough and allows the fowl to be projected into the tube a suflicient distance such that the neck I! of the fowl will project from the lower open end portion of the tube a suflicient distance to allow the neck to be grasped by the hand l8 during the slaughtering operation accomplished by means of a piercing tool [9 held in the other hand 20. In this slaughtering operation, it is the practice to pierce the head of the fowl so as to puncture the brain and allow the blood to drain from the fowl. This draining is accomplished while the fowl is retained in the tube I6. The drippings from the fowl pass into a dripping box 2| having a funnelshaped bottom 22. This funnel-shaped bottom 22 is positioned in an opening 23 formed in the base plate H. The funnel-shaped bottom terminates into a neck 24 which projects into the upper end portion of a drain pipe 25 leading to a suitable dispenser or pan (not shown).

The upper portion 26 of the front wall 21 of the box 2| is hinged as at 28 to the lower portion 29 of this wall 21. This hinged portion of the front wall has integrally formed portions 30, abutting the side walls 3| of the box. The arrangement is such that the hinged wall portion 26 may be pivoted outwardly to afford sufficient room at the base of the tube for the slaughtering operation.

The outward pivotal movement of this wall portion 26 is limited by chain elements 3| attached as at 32 to the wall portion 26 and to the side walls [3 of the mounting structure. A spring 33 normally holds the hinged wall portion 26 in its closed up-right position.

The mounting structure l0 may be fixed to a suitable table 34 or to a supporting structure.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that I have provided a fowl slaughtering device which clearly facilitates the slaughtering of the fowl. The device also afiords sanitary means for collecting for disposal the drippings from the fowl after the slaughtering operation.

The device is simple in construction and may be manufactured at an economical cost.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

l. A fowl slaughtering device comprising a mounting structure, a funnel-shaped tube carried by the upper end portion of the mounting structure and open at opposite end portions, a dripping box carried by the lower end portion of the mounting structure beneath the lower open end portion of the tube, said open end portion of the tube extending into said box, and a drain pipe communicating with said dripping box, said dripping box having a hinged wall portion movable outwardly from the lower end portion of the tube to provide a working area surrounding said lower end portion of the tube.

2. A fowl slaughtering device comprising a mounting structure, a funnel-shaped tube carried by the upper end portion of the mounting structure and open at opposite end portions, a ripp box carried by the w r nd portion of the mounting structure beneath the lower open end portion of the tube, said open end portion of the tube extending into said box, and a drain pipe communicating with said dripping box, said dripping box having a funnel-shaped bottom pro.- viding a neck portion insertable saiddrain pipe, said dripping box having a hinged wall portion movable outwardly from the lower end portion of the tube to provide a working area sur, roundin said lower end portion of the tube.

LAWRENCE K. FUDGE.

4 REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the 7 file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS OTHER REFERENCES The National Standard Squab Book, E. C. Rice, published by Murra Printing 00., Cambridge,

15 Mash, 54th edition, 1933, pages 359 and 362.