A fish supply system, configured and adapted for automatedly conveying fish with defined head/tail alignment and defined prone/supine alignment to a fish processing apparatus, comprising:
- a speed conveyor, which is configured and adapted for transverse axially conveying the fish with defined head/tail alignment and defined prone/supine alignment to the fish processing apparatus;
- at least two feeding apparatuses arranged above the speed conveyor, each feeding apparatus comprising;
- at least one cascade conveyor for transverse axially conveying the fish, each cascade conveyor having;
- at least two receptacles separated from each other by controllable flaps;
- at least one of the controllable flaps being a clocking flap for controlled output of fish to the speed conveyor in a conveying direction of a last of the at least two receptacles before said speed conveyor;
- a supply device operable to supply the fish from a bleeding device to the speed conveyor with the feeding apparatuses device, the supply device comprising;
- a first central conveyor belt for conveying the fish from the bleeding device in a direction of the speed conveyor, wherein flow scales for determining a regulated mass throughput of fish flowing from the bleeding device onto the first central conveyor belt are allocated to the first central conveyor belt;
- a second central conveyor belt following on from the first central conveyor belt for conveying the fish in the direction of the speed conveyor, wherein the second conveyor belt is configured and adapted to be speed regulatable;
- at least two conveyor strands, which each continuously connect the second conveyor belt with the feeding apparatuses of the speed conveyor for supplying the fish;
- a control flap allocated to the second conveyor belt for separating out the fish from the second conveyor belt to each of the at least two conveyor strands;
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- an electronic controller connected at least with, and operable to control in a technical way, the first conveyor belt and the flow scales, the second conveyor belt, the control flap, the conveyor strands, the speed conveyor and the feeding apparatuses, for supplying the speed conveyor with fish;
- wherein each conveyor strand comprises:
- at least one ascending conveyor following on from the second conveyor belt for separating and transverse axially conveying the fish;
- a slide following on from the ascending conveyor for untangling the fish;
- a first belt conveyor following on from the slide for longitudinal axially conveying the fish;
- at least one handling apparatus arranged above the first belt conveyor, configured and adapted for receiving the fish from the first belt conveyor and releasing the fish, head first, to at least one second belt conveyor;
- the or each second belt conveyor following on from the or each first belt conveyor for longitudinal axially conveying the fish, head first;
- a deflector allocated to the or each second conveyor belt for deflecting the fish from the second belt conveyor to a cascade conveyor;
- the cascade conveyor following on from the or each second belt conveyor for transverse axially conveying the fish, the or each cascade conveyor having at least two receptacles separated from each other by controllable flaps, and a clocking flap at least in a last of the at least two receptacles in a conveying direction;
- a third belt conveyor following on from the or each cascade conveyor for longitudinal axially conveying the fish, head first, to a turning station allocated to the or each third belt conveyor for carrying out a correction of the prone/supine alignment;
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- a handling apparatus arranged above the or each third belt conveyor for transverse axially conveying the fish from the third belt conveyor to one of the at least two feeding apparatuses.