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AssigneeMeyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
InventorsAloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn, Joy David Mike Van Spall, Ramzi Souli
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Slaughter installation including a conveyor line with carriers for suspending poultry by the legs and conveying the poultry in a conveying track. Head positioning means arranged for forcing the bill of the poultry in a direction opposite to the transport direction of the suspended poultry. Killing device having at least a first rotary knife positioned alongside of the conveying track for cutting into the neck of the suspended poultry while avoiding to cut a certain parts. A first guide wheel upstream and proximate to the first rotary knife, which first guide wheel is positioned alongside the conveying track. A passageway between the first rotary knife and the first guide wheel through which the poultry neck is able to pass.
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A slaughter installation, comprising:
The slaughter installation of claim 1, wherein the installation is arranged to maintain the poultry essentially vertically suspended while the poultry neck passes the passageway between the first rotary knife and the first guide wheel.
The slaughter installation of claim 1, wherein a second rotary knife is provided alongside the conveying track and downstream of the first rotary knife on a side of the conveying track that is opposite to the side of the first rotary knife, wherein upstream and proximate to the second rotary knife a second guide wheel is provided, which second guide wheel is positioned alongside the conveying track on the same side of the first guide wheel and the second rotary knife.
The slaughter installation of claim 1, the installation comprising head positioning means arranged for forcing the bill of the poultry in a direction opposite to the transport direction of the suspended poultry.
The slaughter installation of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first guide wheel and second guide wheel is rotatable through contact with the neck of the passing poultry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.