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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7544119 | Apparatus, system, and method for positioning poultry, meat, and fish product pieces on a conveyor An apparatus for positioning poultry, meat, or fish product pieces on a conveyor and a system and method which utilize the inventive apparatus. The inventive apparatus comprises an array of side-by-side upwardly arched product channels and a plurality of catch membe... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7378642 | Counting apparatus and method for a poultry processing plant A counting system for a poultry processing plant that uses conveyors is disclosed. Two types of conveyors are addressed, one where poultry hang from the conveyor and one where the carcasses are supported above the conveyor. The sensors are located at different level... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7347772 | Conveyor system with pivotable hooks A conveyor system for linked sausage strands having a frame with an operating platform. The platform has opposite first and second ends, opposite sides, a top surface, and a wall extending along the sides and ends. A channel is formed in the top surface and a convey... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7252584 | Fish processing machine with alignment devices and methods for realigning fish during processing Fish processing machines and methods for realigning fish during processing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a fish processing machine in accordance with the invention includes a fish processing unit for use with a processing machine having a fillet assembly ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7226349 | Process to electronically automate the sorting of chicken feet in the category of edible or inedible Photoelectric and inductive sensors are placed along a picking and eviscerating chicken lines. The sensors detect the location of a chicken bird in a shackle and its associated feet, also in a shackle. The sensors communicate this information to a programmable logic... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7186175 | Hanging element A hanging element that may include an extended body with a lower insertion body and an upper closure head forming a matrix of hanging elements joined to each other via the side projections. Each insertion body extends into a wire which ends as a Y joint where the re... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7134956 | Automated feet-gripping system A system and method for transferring live objects, such as chickens, to a shackle line are presented. The system and method include introducing a plurality of live objects to a singulator. The singulator isolates the individual live objects and places them in a pall... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7097552 | Method and system for gas stunning of poultry for slaughter A method and a system (2) for gas stunning of animals for slaughter is described, where the animals arrive at the slaughterhouse in transport crates (6), where gas stunning of the animals is effected while they are still in transport crates (6),... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097025 | System for removing dead animals A system for transporting dead animals in an animal raising facility to a disposal site using a conveyor having at least one carrier that operates by placing the dead animals in the carrier, transporting the carrier towards a disposal site by the conveyor, and empty... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7070492 | Automated support member positioning and removing systems and related devices and methods Methods, systems, and associated devices for supplying support members to a product loading station and automatically removing loaded members therefrom include: (a) advancing in serial order and spaced apart relationship, a plurality of elongated support members hav... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7037186 | Machine for tenderising meat morsels It comprises a bench (12) supporting a longitudinal propping floor (1) provided with means to make said meat pieces are intermittently moved forwards along it, at least a tenderizing group (6) provided with sabres (7) uprightly moveable t... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7018283 | Apparatus for transferring poultry carcasses Apparatus for transferring poultry carcasses from a first overhead conveyor to a second overhead conveyor, including a transfer wheel rotatable about a shaft and disposed between the first and the second overhead conveyors. The apparatus also includes a receipt poin... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6869352 | Repetitive high-density packing mechanisms for arranging suspended lengths of elongated items in a desired orientation and associated methods Methods and devices for loading carrier members with suspended elongated product include straddling suspended elongated product over a carrier member having a width so that portions of the elongated product are serially draped over the carrier member along a desired... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6786321 | Independent conveyor system for conveying linked food products A system and methods for conveying linked chains of food product in a production cycle. In one implementation, a system comprises a first and second conveyors each traveling from a loading station proximate a linker to an unloading station and back, each conveyor ha... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6692345 | Laying-down system and vision-based automatic primal cutting system in connection therewith In the primal cutting-up of half carcasses of animals (12), vision systems are known whereby the determination of one or more fix points on the carcasses takes place, and where on the basis of the position of these points a visualisation of the ideal cut ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6523462 | Aligned food processing system A food processing system for an elongated strand of food product, such as hot dogs or sausage links, provides aligned orientation of conveyor hooks and identical arrival time spacing between adjacent hooks at a reference loading point at a strand producin... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6419077 | Automated transfer station for hanging articles such as pepperoni sausages A sausage transfer station is disclosed for transferring sausages from a rack where they are hung by respective string loops in a plurality of rows to a main conveyor. The transfer station includes an unload conveyor for advancing the rack forward, a sele... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6186881 | Method and apparatus for venting/opening, eviscerating/cropping, inspecting and cleaning of poultry A poultry processing machine is provided which automatically vents and opens the poultry, eviscerates the poultry, displays the poultry for inspection, and either provides a normal or radical clean out procedure to the poultry. When the poultry is being p... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6086469 | Method and means for conveying and processing an extruded sausage strand A conveyor for moving the strand from a sausage making machine has J-hooks extending downwardly from a continuous chain conveyor. The conveyor picks up the loops of the strand at a loading station immediately adjacent the discharge end of the machine, and... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6066037 | Handling device A conveyor belt feeder for automatically transferring pieces of meat, such as salmon fillets, onto a transverse conveyor belt comprises a platform (2), which is carried by a support (1) and is displaceably arranged in a direction (3) to and fro said suppo... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6056637 | Method and apparatus for unloading poultry Method and apparatus for unloading poultry as disclosed. A chute (35) is placed proximate the door of a coop. The door is opened and the poultry are urged out of the coop onto the chute (35). The poultry then slide down the chute (35) onto a conveyor (11)... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6033299 | Carcass transfer apparatus An apparatus for transferring carcasses from a shackle conveyor to a processing device wherein the shackle conveyor includes a plurality of shackles for continuously conveying the carcasses and the processing device includes a plurality of modules for con... | 03/07/2000 |
| 5672099 | Method for collecting conveyor suspension hangers, suspension hanger collecting apparatus and suspension hanger return apparatus Method and apparatus for collecting hangers hanging from overhead or a conveyor rail installed in, for example, a meat processing plant and for returning such collected hangers to the conveyor rail including a guide bar installed under the conveyor rail. ... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5672098 | Apparatus for transferring slaughtered poultry from a first suspension conveyer towards a second suspension conveyer The invention relates to an apparatus for transferring slaughtered poultry from a first suspension conveyor towards a second suspension conveyor, having a supply station contiguous with the first suspension conveyor and a discharge station contiguous with... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5514033 | Poultry-handling assembly A poultry-handling assembly (10) (FIG. 6) comprises two endless conveyors (12,13) arranged side-by-side and adapted to move poultry from a first location (15) to a second location (17). Access means at the first location allows birds to enter the assembly... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5505657 | Device for conveying slaughtered animals, in particular birds Device for conveying slaughtered animals or a part thereof, having a number of leg carriers, each of which is connected by way of a rotatable connecting element to a trolley of a conveyor, and runs through a track past at least one processing station. Eac... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5453045 | System for transferring birds from one conveyor system to another with intermediate accumulator A system for transferring birds (77) from a weigh line (11) to a cut-up line (12) through an intermediate accumulator. The system comprises a continuously rotating buffer wheel (15) having a plurality of bird carriers (17) slidably mounted on its peripher... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5376041 | Method for regulating the flow of animals through a slaughtering facility A turntable means regulates the flow of animals, for example, ratites (includes ostrich and emu) through a slaughtering facility. The turntable means has a circular turntable rotating about an axis within a circular perimeter wall. The perimeter wall has ... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5370574 | Method and apparatus for suspending poultry with its legs from a suspension conveyor In the invention poultry to be suspended with its legs from a suspension conveyor is first oriented in parallel with a certain direction, such as the conveying direction of the suspension conveyor, next spaced at a certain mutual distance, thereafter orie... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5344360 | Method and apparatus for transferring a bird from one conveyor system to another An apparatus for transferring birds from the evicerator line (11) to the cooling line (12) of a poultry processing plant, the apparatus comprising a bird removal assembly 29 having a plurality of cam operated modules (35) for lifting the birds from their ... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5340351 | Poultry conveyor line transfer system A bird transfer carrousel is provided for transferring birds between two conveyor lines wherein the shackles of one conveyor line are spaced at a different increment than the shackles of the other conveyor line. The bird transfer carrousel comprises a rot... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5340355 | Apparatus for orienting birds, which are supplied by a belt conveyor, with their heads in the direction of conveyance Apparatus is provided for orienting birds, which are applied by a belt conveyor, with their heads in the direction of conveyance. The apparatus comprises two positioning means located alongside each other and rotating around a vertical axis defining there... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5259811 | Poultry-handling assembly A poultry-handling assembly is provided which includes a pair of rotors arranged side-by-side for rotation about a vertical or predominantly vertical axis. Each rotor includes a central core upon which are arranged groups of guide elements spaced apart ar... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5238353 | Device for the input and carrying away of smoking or cooking rods for automatic suspension of a plurality of sausages A process and device for the input and carrying away of smoking rods or cooking rods to and from a station for the automatic suspension of sausages provided with loops on a rod which in turn is tightly chucked at one end works as follows: the rods are fir... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5194035 | Automatic poultry processor and method Automatic poultry processor and corresponding methodology permits poultry to be directly received from a conventional overhead track, without manual intervention. Spring loaded leg drags temporarily impede movement of a bird relative an overhead track, du... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5176068 | Apparatus for cooking whole chickens Apparatus for broiling whole chickens which have been severed along the breast bone for opening into a generally flat condition includes a housing having opposing laterally spaced sets of upright gas-fueled infrared heaters defining therebetween a cooking... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5108345 | Apparatus and method for loading live fowl onto a conveyor Apparatus and method for mechanizing the loading of live fowl onto shackles of an overhead conveyor used in poultry processing. Live fowl are placed on a moving conveyor belt moving alongside the shackles. A succession of bird loading stations move with t... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5102368 | Apparatus and method for conveying sausages An apparatus for conveying sausages from a sausage stuffing machine to a packing unit comprises a deflecting device, with which the sausages are alinged in a defined position on a conveyor belt; a loading station comprising a lifting member and coordinate... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5090941 | Apparatus for feeding fish processing machines An apparatus for the timed feeding of fish into fish processing machines serves to supply such fish into a conveyor pushing them along in a direction transversal to their longitudinal axis and being provided with receiving troughs or entrainers. In order ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5088959 | Method for causing sitting poultry to stand up and apparatus for carrying out this method For causing sitting poultry to stand up its abdomen is brought into contact with a liquid or is a gas stream blown against the abdomen. An apparatus for carrying out this method comprises a spraying unit for the liquid or a blowing nozzle for the gas stre... | 02/18/1992 |
