Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
452177000 | CONVEYER | 30 |
20090004958 | Method and System for Cooling of Dressed Carcasses - A method of cooling a dressed carcass of a slaughtered animal halved along the backbone thereof while transferring the dressed carcass in a cooling chamber is provided, with which reduction in process yield in the cooling process due to evaporation of water from the dressed carcass is suppressed to a minimum, meat juice dripping together with water does not occur when cutting the dressed carcass, the cooling period of time is reduced, energy is saved in cooling process, initial cost is reduced, and productivity is improved. The dressed carcass is cooled while transferring in the cooling chamber in a hanged attitude along the transport route T, whereby a plurality of partitioned spaces are provided in the cooling chamber | 01-01-2009 |
20100022176 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONDITIONING SLAUGHTERED POULTRY AND PRODUCTION LINE FOR PROCESSING POULTRY CARCASSES - The invention relates to a device for conditioning slaughtered poultry, provided with a carries ( | 01-28-2010 |
20120040598 | BELLY HOOK ASSEMBLY FOR A CONVEYOR - A belly hook attachment is provided. The belly hook attachment has a first support arm, a second support arm spaced from the first arm, the first support arm and second support arm receiving first, second and third pins. A belly hook support arm is carried by the first pin and pivotable about the first pin. A belly hook is carried by the belly hook support arm. A translational member is also carried by the belly hook support arm and is engagable with a track on a conveyor assembly such that the interaction between the track and the translational member results in pivotal movement of the belly hook support arm about the pin between the second pin forming an upper stop and third pin forming a lower stop, thereby moving the belly hook. A modular conveyor belt is also provided. | 02-16-2012 |
20150017896 | POULTRY PROCESSING LINE - A poultry processing line is provided having a series of poultry carriers and a processing unit or processing units, wherein the poultry carriers are movable to and from the processing unit or processing units and the poultry carriers and the processing unit or processing units are synchronized to enable processing of the poultry by the processing unit or processing units. A switch is provided such that the poultry carriers and/or the processing unit or processing units are selectable between an operational position in which the poultry is processed by the processing unit or units and an inoperational or idle position in which the poultry is prevented from being processed by the processing unit or units. | 01-15-2015 |
20150079889 | CONE LINE AND CONVEYOR SYSTEM - A conveyor system is disclosed wherein the conveyor line includes two or more conveyor lines wherein all of the conveyor lines are built on a common frame. By building the conveyor lines on a common frame, the conveyor lines can be built adjacent to one another and share common sidewalls, eliminating gaps of traditional conveyor systems. Adjustable standing platforms can also be added to assist workers in reaching the conveyor lines. The result is a more modular, easier to clean, ergonomically beneficial conveyor system. | 03-19-2015 |
20150305353 | POULTRY PROCESSING APPARATUS - A poultry processing apparatus for removing legs from a saddle obtained from a poultry carcass. A suspension conveyor moves the saddle suspended by the legs. A surface conveyor for engages with and conveys the back portion of the saddle. One or more upper guide rails substantially following at least a part of the surface conveyor's outer circumference away from the suspension conveyor, therewith defining a gap between the surface conveyor and the upper guide rail or rails equipped to receive the saddles back portion. Adjacent to the surface conveyor a support guide or guides provide support to the back portion of the saddle while it is being conveyed by the surface conveyor. | 10-29-2015 |
20150313247 | A TUNNEL - A tunnel 2 for the in-line anti-bacterial treatment of plucked poultry carcasses (or other animal carcasses) with a liquid cryogen or a cold gas at a temperature of less than 0° C. has an entrance 18 and an exit 20 for the poultry carcasses. A monorail conveyor 22 extends from the entrance 18 to the exit 20 and passes thorough the tunnel 2. Poultry suspension shackles 24 are able to pass along the conveyor 22. Thus, poultry carcasses are able to be conveyed through the tunnel 2. The conveyor 22 may follow a path which reverses direction at least once. | 11-05-2015 |
452178000 | Elevating | 1 |
20120009858 | Transport chute for fish - A device is described for conveying a catch, such as fish, which is brought on board a vessel and loosened from the fishing tackle for transport to further processing, and it is characterised in that in connection to or below the unhooking location of the vessel, a tilting gliding chute is arranged, onto which the fish is made to fall to be transported to further processing. | 01-12-2012 |
452179000 | Orienting | 9 |
20080261504 | System for Inverting Pieces of Meat Having an Irregular Geometrical Shape - A slaughtering system for inverting pieces of meat ( | 10-23-2008 |
20100304653 | SHACKLE WITH PIVOT FEATURE & CONVEYOR SYSTEM THEREFOR | 12-02-2010 |
20100323599 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR BRINGING INTO POSITION AND ARRANGING A CARCASS OR CARCASS PART OF SLAUGHTERED POULTRY ON OR IN A PRODUCT CARRIER - The invention relates to a device for bringing into position and arranging a carcass or carcass part ( | 12-23-2010 |
20110275299 | FISH TRANSPORTING DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY FEEDING FISH TO A FISH PROCESSING MACHINE AND DEVICE FOR ALIGNING FISH IN A HEAD/TAIL ORIENTATION HAVING SUCH A FISH TRANSPORTING DEVICE - The invention concerns a fish transporting apparatus for automatically feeding fish to a fish processing machine. The fish transporting apparatus can include, a transport device with a bottom element for receiving the fish and lateral boundary elements for guiding the fish as well as a vibrating member for vibratory driving of the transport device, which is distinguished in that the bottom element is constructed as a grid plate with rectangular apertures. Furthermore, the invention concerns a device for aligning fish in a head/tail orientation with such a fish transporting apparatus. | 11-10-2011 |
20120115406 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING OF PORK BELLIES | 05-10-2012 |
20120214391 | System and Method for Trussing Slaughtered Birds - A system for trussing slaughtered birds comprises a conveyer provided with at least one bird holder for transporting a bird to at least one working position along the transport path of the conveyer, a bird trussing station located at the working position, which station includes a trussing module defining a working zone, and a mechanical arrangement for bringing the bird within the working zone in predetermined position and orientation relative thereto to allow for operation of the trussing module according to a trussing pattern by which a trussing element catches and maintains the bird in a trussed condition. The system further comprises a controller operatively connected to the conveyer and the bird trussing station. The system may also comprise a bird's legs crossing station located at a working position upstream the trussing station where the trussing of bird's legs is desired. The system may further comprise a bird's legs flexing station located at a working position upstream the bird's legs crossing station, to flex bird's legs sufficiently to provide relaxation thereof prior to flexion. A further trussing station for applying a further trussing element to the bird according to another pattern may also be used by the system. | 08-23-2012 |
20120238195 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING A CARCASS PART OF SLAUGHTERED POULTRY - A method for processing a carcass part of slaughtered poultry includes performing a process on the carcass part using a processing device, in which the carcass part has a predefined position and orientation in relation to the processing device, during the processing at least a harvestable part of the carcass part is separated from the rest of the carcass part, conveying the harvestable part to a tray using a feed device, where the orientation of the harvestable part relative to the feed device is known beforehand based on the orientation of the harvestable part relative to the processing device, and depositing the harvestable part of the carcass part in the tray in a predefined position and in a predefined orientation. | 09-20-2012 |
20130052924 | Method and Apparatus for Suspending Poultry to be Slaughtered - A method and apparatus for suspending living or stunned poultry to be slaughtered in conveyor brackets of an overhead conveyor. A belt conveyor delivers the poultry to a distribution surface, where the poultry are successively guided or pushed outwardly against an edge of the distribution surface to individual positions for receiving the poultry with the legs projecting from the edge of the positions. The legs are fixed in fixing means at the positions. The individual positions are then successively moved upwardly relative to the distribution surface to suspend the poultry for a subsequent downward movement of the positions by brackets of the overhead conveyor running above and spaced apart from the distribution surface. The positions are subsequently moved downwardly again to the level of the distribution surface. | 02-28-2013 |
20160037787 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS AND/OR PARTS THEREOF - A system for processing a carcass or carcass part of a porcine, bovine, ovine, or caprine slaughter animal involves a plurality of processing steps. The system includes a primary transport system that includes an overhead conveyor and a plurality of carriers for holding a carcass or carcass part, a plurality of processing stations, which processing stations are arranged along the track, each of the processing stations being adapted to carry out one or more processing steps on a carcass or carcass part, wherein in at least one processing station a step of removing a part of the carcass or carcass part is carried out, a secondary transport system, which secondary transport system is arranged adjacent to the processing station in which said part is removed from the carcass or carcass part, which secondary transport system is adapted to receive said part. | 02-11-2016 |
452180000 | Registering (i.e., aligning) | 2 |
20130005230 | Automated Poultry Hanging System and Method - This invention relates to automated systems and methods for hanging live poultry for further processing. The system has an alignment conveyor, an alignment stunner, a hanging box, and a shackle. The alignment conveyor conveys poultry from an input point to the alignment stunner. The alignment stunner urges the poultry to move to a desired position on the alignment conveyor and stuns the poultry. The hanging box grasps the stunned poultry and places the poultry into the shackle for further processing. A computer and at least one sensor control operation of the system so that human intervention is minimized. | 01-03-2013 |
20170231239 | CONVEYING AND DISTRIBUTING APPARATUS FOR SLAUGHTERED FISH | 08-17-2017 |
452182000 | Transfer from one conveyor to another | 5 |
20080242208 | Method and Device for Processing a Slaughter Animal - In a method and device for opening a blood vessel in the neck of a pre-positioned slaughter animal, a blood vessel is opened as a result of at least one cutting device being moved into the neck from one side of the neck towards the opposite side of the neck, the blood vessel being located in the path of the cutting device. The cutting device is an elongate blade which is moved in its longitudinal direction and is provided with a sharp, inclined front side. Before the blood vessel is opened, the distance between the trachea and the blood vessel is increased in an area of the opening. | 10-02-2008 |
20110136422 | Passive Systems And Methods For Shackling Products - A passive system, apparatus, and method for transferring poultry products exiting the chiller to a cone or shackle line. | 06-09-2011 |
20110263188 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING CARCASSES - A method for processing meat along a meat processing line. The method includes removing viscera from a carcass, accumulating the carcass along a dead rail stack of the meat processing line, washing the carcass, and inspecting the carcass at an inspection station following the act of washing the carcass. | 10-27-2011 |
20140024302 | POULTRY PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING ONE OR MORE TRANSFER UNITS - A processing apparatus for poultry is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes one or more transfer units placed intermediate of, conveying poultry from, a first line to a subsequent second line, wherein both the first line and the second line are selected from the group including a slaughtering line, an evisceration line, a chilling line, a sorting line and a cutup line. Each transfer unit is embodied with a circulating support that includes material that is magnetically conductive and transfer means are provided with at least one magnet so as to induce eddy currents in the circulating support that counteracts relative motion between the transfer means and the circulating support. | 01-23-2014 |
20140194044 | POULTRY PROCESSING APPARATUS HAVING ONE OR MORE TRANSFER UNITS - A processing apparatus for poultry is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes one or more transfer units placed intermediate of conveying poultry from, a first line to a subsequent second line, wherein both the first line and the second line are selected from the group including a slaughtering line, an evisceration line, a chilling line, a sorting line and a cutup line. Each transfer unit is embodied with a circulating support that includes material that is magnetically conductive and transfer means are provided with at least one magnet so as to induce eddy currents in the circulating support that counteracts relative motion between the transfer means and the circulating support. | 07-10-2014 |
452183000 | Loading or unloading | 2 |
20140315477 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUSPENDING SAUSAGE FROM HOOKS - Hook groups formed by hooks in a number identical to a maximum number of loops of sausage to be suspended from a stick are provided on a wrapping connector moving body of a conveyor with a respective hook absent zone interposed between adjacent ones of the hook groups. When the sausage is suspended from all the hooks of one hook group, the supply of the sausage to the conveyor is interrupted, and the sausage whose supply to the conveyor has been restarted after the hook absent zone moved a predetermined distance is suspended from a first hook of an ensuing hook group to form one loop by a last hook of the one hook group and a first hook of the ensuing hook group. | 10-23-2014 |
20150126103 | SAUSAGE SUSPENSION MEMBER AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SUSPENDING SAUSAGE ON SUSPENSION MEMBERS FROM STICK - A sausage suspension member undergoes primary pivoting whereby an opening portion with an inner link of a sausage placed thereon is moved about a pivot axis laterally inwardly, and after the primary pivoting the sausage suspension member undergoes secondary pivoting whereby the opening portion with the inner link placed thereon is moved about the pivot axis laterally inwardly so as to move the opening portion with the inner link placed thereon laterally inwardly away from a stick in a state of being inserted between the inner link and an outer link. | 05-07-2015 |
452184000 | Sorting | 4 |
20100029187 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROCESSING FISH, POULTRY, OR OTHER MEAT PRODUCTS TRANSPORTED IN MULTITUDE ALONG A PROCESSING LINE - In a method for the processing of fish, poultry or other meat products being conveyed in a plurality along a processing line ( | 02-04-2010 |
20140170947 | MEAT INSPECTION SYSTEM - A meat inspection and sorting line comprising supply means, a radiation inspection facility, a cutting facility and a reject facility. Meat parts are brought together and fed into the radiation inspection facility by means of a conveyor in a layer of meat parts. An undesired object is detected by the radiation inspection facility by means of e.g. an X-ray technique and a part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is identified and separated from the layer of meat parts by the cutting facility. The identified and separated part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is rejected by the reject facility from the layer of meat parts. | 06-19-2014 |
20150313245 | MEAT INSPECTION SYSTEM - A meat inspection and sorting line comprising supply means, a radiation inspection facility, a cutting facility and a reject facility. Meat parts are brought together and fed into the radiation inspection facility by means of a conveyor in a layer of meat parts. An undesired object is detected by the radiation inspection facility by means of e.g. an X-ray technique and a part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is identified and separated from the layer of meat parts by the cutting facility. The identified and separated part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is rejected by the reject facility from the layer of meat parts. | 11-05-2015 |
20160174583 | PROCESSING LINE AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING A POULTRY CARCASS AND/OR A VISCERA PACKAGE TAKEN OUT FROM THE POULTRY CARCASS | 06-23-2016 |