Device for separating and processing the gizzards of slaughtered poultry
AssigneeStork PMT B.V.
InventorMartinus P. G. van Mil
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Abstract
A device for separating the gizzard from the connected entrails of slaughtered poultry comprising an inlet, two oblong cylindrical parallel rotating transport elements and a gizzard separating device, the first element with a helical transport ribbon along its circumference and the second element with at least one row of longitudinal short ribs projecting from the surface and fitting between the screw ribbon of the first element.
Claims7
A device for separating gizzards from the connected intestines of slaughtered poultry comprising a parallel pair of synchronously counter-rotating elongated cylindrical bar elements, a continuous helical ribbon for the conveyance of gizzards on one of said bar elements, plural circumferentially equidistantly spaced longitudinal rows of ribs on the other bar element, the ribs in the rows being adapted to enter into spaces between adjacent convolutions of said continuous helical ribbon, a pair of gizzard separating pinching roll elements on the downstream ends of said bar elements in coaxial relationship therewith and counter-rotating therewith, said pinching roll elements having engaging helical teeth of mutually opposite pitch on their peripheries, means to convey separated gizzards downstream from said pinching roll elements and to cut the gizzards lengthwise of the axes of the pinching roll elements, and means downstream from the last-named means to clean the interiors of the cut gizzards.
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