| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5178579 |
Poultry washer |
January 12, 1993 |
| A washer for forcefully spraying with water the inside of eviscerated poultry that is traversing a treatment line. The washer is mounted on a module frame that moves with the line. The washer descends into the body cavity of the bird and sprays water thereinto. The washer is an elongated |
| 5178578 |
Poultry crop remover |
January 12, 1993 |
| A probe for removing the crop and other viscera in poultry. The probe is cylindrical and is rounded at its distal end. Intermediate its ends is a grasping comb section consisting of a plurality of axially disposed channels. The channels each have walls that terminate in a plurality of |
| 4910829 |
Poultry cropper and neck breaker |
March 27, 1990 |
| There is disclosed a combination crop remover and neck breaker for use as part of a continuous processing station adjacent a conventional poultry processing line wherein partially processed poultry is given a two step processing treatment. The station includes a plurality of modules that |
| 4739539 |
Method and apparatus for removing fecal matter from poultry |
April 26, 1988 |
| The disclosure pertains to means and method for effectuating considerable squeezing to a fowl between a back supporting surface and a breast supporting surface whereby the so treated poultry has it feces squeezed out of its anus. The squeezing manipulation occurs most satisfactorily |
| 4730365 |
Poultry neck breaker assembly |
March 15, 1988 |
| The present invention is directed to a neck breaking assembly for a poultry processing operation wherein the bird's neck is first aligned and positioned into an identifiable location adjacent to a breaker block. The breaker block is then projected towards the bird breaking the neck of th |
| 4707886 |
Poultry oil sac removal method and apparatus |
November 24, 1987 |
| The present invention is directed to an oil sac removal assembly comprising an apertured plate having an inwardly bevelled aperture which is pressed against the tail section of a bird, so that the oil sac protrudes through the aperture. A scraper then engages a portion of the protruding |
| 4694535 |
Post stunner for poultry |
September 22, 1987 |
| A vertically adjustable ladder contactor for a post stunner has two fluidic piston and cylinders for raising and lowering the ladder contactor. Four parallel support rods suspended from the conveyor track are formed of an electrical insulator to prevent short circuit of the stunner. In a |
| 4694534 |
Apparatus for electrically stunning poultry |
September 22, 1987 |
| The present invention provides a saline solution containing elongated trough which is mounted at the end portions of four non-electronically conducting ports. The trough has an ingress funnel arrangement designed to control the thrashing of to-be-electrically-stunned birds and an elongat |
