Method and an apparatus for evisceration of poultry

A method for eviscerating poultry having an intestine pack and a body that comprises a back, a breast with a breast bone, an esophagus, a crop, legs and joints, by which method decapitated poultry suspended in the legs or joints are eviscerated in an evisceration apparatus comprising a number of evisceration devices each comprising an evisceration spoon and a guide means, wherein the evisceration spoon is inserted into the body of the poultry in a movement forward and towards the breast bone, then moved forward along the breast bone and finally swung towards the back of the poultry to a fully advanced position, in which the evisceration spoon surrounds the intestine pack on a side facing the breast, and wherein the evisceration spoon is subsequently retracted, thereby pulling the intestine pack out of the body, wherein the guide means is inserted together with the evisceration spoon and is moved across the esophagus during the forward movement within the body, and wherein the guide means forms a bend on the esophagus, while the crop is being pulled loose, so that the esophagus extends from the bend to the crop in a direction more aligned with a direction followed by the evisceration spoon during retraction thereof than a portion of the esophagus extending from the bend to the evisceration spoon.

A method for eviscerating poultry having an intestine pack and a body that comprises a back, a breast with a breast bone, an esophagus, a crop, legs and joints, by which method poultry are eviscerated in an evisceration apparatus comprising a number of evisceration devices each comprising an evisceration spoon and a guide means movable in relation to the spoon, wherein the evisceration spoon is inserted into the body of the poultry in a movement forward and towards the breast bone, then moved forward along the breast bone and finally swung towards the back of the poultry to a fully advanced position, in which the evisceration spoon surrounds the intestine pack on a side facing the breast, and wherein the evisceration spoon is subsequently retracted, thereby pulling the intestine pack out of the body, wherein the guide means is inserted together with the evisceration spoon and is moved across the esophagus during the forward movement within the body, and wherein the guide means forms a bend on the esophagus, while the crop is being pulled loose, so that the esophagus extends from the bend to the crop in a direction more aligned with a direction followed by the evisceration spoon during retraction thereof than a portion of the esophagus extending from the bend to the evisceration spoon.

An apparatus for eviscerating poultry having an intestine pack and a body that comprises a back, a breast with a breast bone, an esophagus and a crop, legs and joints, said apparatus comprising a suspension device for poultry and a number of evisceration devices each comprising an evisceration spoon, which evisceration spoon is movable between an initial position outside a poultry body and a fully advanced position where the evisceration spoon encircles the intestine pack on a side facing the breast, where the evisceration device comprises a guide means having an end area located at an edge of the evisceration spoon, when the guide means is in a first position, which guide means is movable with respect to the evisceration spoon between the first position and a second position, in which the end area of the guide means is located at a distance from the evisceration spoon.

An apparatus for eviscerating poultry having an intestine pack and a body that comprises a back, a breast with a breast bone, an esophagus and a crop, legs and joints, said apparatus comprising a suspension device for poultry and a number of evisceration devices each comprising an evisceration spoon, which evisceration spoon is movable between an initial position outside a poultry body and a fully advanced position where the evisceration spoon encircles the intestine pack on a side facing the breast, where the evisceration device comprises a guide means having an end area located at an edge of the evisceration spoon, when the guide means is in a first position, which guide means is movable with respect to the evisceration spoon between the first position and a second position, in which the end area of the guide means is located at a distance from the evisceration spoon, where, when in the first position, the guide means is located in an arched recess in a closed back of the evisceration spoon.