Device for processing the entrails of slaughtered poultry

A device for processing the entrails, particularly the gizzard, of slaughtered poultry, comprisng a pair of spaced parallel first and second worm conveyors synchronously driven in opposite directions and each comprising a core and a helical ribbon therearound, means at one end of said pair of conveyors for defining an inlet for the gizzard and organs including the stomach and intestines connected therewith, a helical ribbon on said first conveyor extending from said inlet end thereof a distance shorter than the helical ribbon on said second conveyor, a first plurality of axially extending radially projecting circumferentially spaced carrier members on said first conveyor on the portion thereof beyond said helical ribbon, a second plurality of axially extending radially projecting circumferentially spaced carrier members on the helical ribbon portion of said second conveyor and opposed and intermeshing with said first carrier members, the space between said conveyor cores being such that the gizzards are moved by said helical ribbons upon said conveyors while the intestines are moved by said carrier members through the space between said cores, radially protruding means on said second worm at the end of the helical ribbon thereon for pressing the gizzard upon said conveyors, a knife at the end of said conveyors having its cutting edge perpendicular to and directed toward said conveyor axes for separating the gizzard from the intestines as the gizzard is being pressed upon the conveyors, means subsequent to said worm conveyors and said knife in the direction of conveyance for conveying the separated gizzard and for unfolding and cutting open the gizzard while it is being conveyed, and means subsequent to said unfolding and cutting open means in the direction of conveyance for scrapping the interior of the cut open gizzard.