US614736A

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Publication number: US614736A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-11-22
Anticipated expiration: 1915-11-22

Description

Nu. 6l4,736. Patented Nov. 22, I898.

P. F. MAHAN. APPARATUS FOR USE IN SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

(Application-filed lob. 9, 1898.)

(No Model.)

INVENTUR RTRWKE'MHHA WITNESSES:

ATTOR N EYS.

UNITED STATES EFICE.

PATENT PATRICK F. MAIIAN, or JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO eEoReE B. WILSON, or SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR USE IN SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 614,736, dated November 22, 1898.

Application filed February 9, 1898. Serial No. 669,719. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRICK F. MAIIAN, a citizen of the .United States of America, residing in Jersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented an Apparatus for Use in Slaughter-Houses, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for slaughter-houses an apparatus to facilitate the handling and cleaning of the carcasses when suspended from an overhead track. This object I attain as herein after described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved apparatus, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the same.

While my invention is applicable for use in slaughter-houses generally and for other purposes, I have more especially designed it for use in that part of a hog, cattle, or sheep slaughtering establishment where the dead carcasses are suspended from overhead trolleys and handled by attendants to cut them open and remove the entrails or skin them and then pass them on to another department for transportation or storage.

In the drawings, B is the overhead track, suspended from overhead beams A of the fixed structure, and on this track run trolleys D, from which the carcasses O are suspended at a convenient height for the attendants to cut them open or skin them.

To save time and relieve attendants from the labor of pushing the laden trolleys along from one point to the next, I provide automatic power-driven feeding devices in juxtaposition to the track at a certain point or points, so that the trolleys successively come into the path of the feeding devices and are thereby moved, with their suspended carcasses, along to the next point or points. As the simplest form of such a feeding device I prefer to use a horizontal wheel E on a vertical power-driven shaft F, mounted in bearings in the fixed overhead framework near the track 13 at the desired point. This revolving wheel has radial arms 6 e, which project out under the track B and come into contact with the trolleys D as the near-by operating attendant finishes his work on the successive carcasses and moves them into the path of the wheel.

In conjunction with the above-described appliance I provide overhead water-spraying pipes P P at a point along the track out of the way of the operating attendants, but in the neighborhood of the wheel, so that as the carcasses are being traversed along under the action or impetusof the feed-wheel they (the carcasses) will be thoroughly washed down by the overhead sprays.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the overhead track and trolleys of a slaughter-house with a re volving feed-wheel adjacent to the track, and means for revolving said wheel always in the same direction, and having arms to act on the carcass-carrying trolleys and traverse them along the track, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the curved overhead track and trolleys of a slaughter-house with a feeding device to act on the trolleys and overhead spraying-pipes curved to conform to the track and to wash the suspended carcasses as they are traversed by the said feeding device, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

18 PATRICK F. X MAHAN.

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Witnesses F. WVARREN. WRIGHT, IIUBERT HOWSON.