Machine for pulling off strips of fat from hog carcasses
AssigneeSociete Anonyme: Societe des Ateliers de Constructions Mecaniques: Lucien Durand
InventorLucien Durand
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Abstract
The invention relates to a machine comprising: a chassis movable with respect to a supporting structure, a clamp comprising: two jaws, means for controlling the opening and closing of said jaws, passive counter-jaws operationally coupled to said jaws, and means for controlling said counter-jaws with respect to said jaws. The invention finds an application in the mass-slaughtering of hogs.
Claims19
Machine for pulling off the belly strips from a hog carcass, wherein said machine comprises:
- means for suspending an eviscerated hog carcass by its hind legs,
- means for introducing, in the hog's open rib cage, a clamp equipped with inwardly-directed active jaws,
- means for placing the active jaws substantially inside the plane of the lower end portions of the belly strips lining the internal faces of the hog's sides,
- means for opening the clamp in order to place the active jaws against the lower end portions of the belly strips,
- means for pressing, against the external face of the hog's sides, passive counter-jaws, in facing relationship to said active jaws,
- means for bringing out of said active jaws, means for gripping the belly strips simultaneously,
- means for opening out the passive counter-jaws,
- means for closing the clamp so as to bring the active jaws close together and to pull off the lower end portions of the belly strips gripped by said gripping means,
- means for raising the clamp in order to loosen the belly strips from the internal faces of the hog's sides, and
- means for extracting the clamp from the hog.
Machine for pulling off the belly strips from a suspended hog carcass, wherein said machine comprises:
- a supporting structure which is vertically movable by means of a motor, over supporting and guide rails mounted on a frame,
- a chassis carried by said structure, which is horizontally movable by means of a motor and forms a vertical pivot, and
- a two-branched clamp mounted on said pivot and comprising:
- two jaws projecting with respect to the chassis and being equipped on their external faces with retractable active grips or other gripping means,
- means for controlling the opening and closing of the branches of the clamp and for extending or retracting said gripping means,
- two passive counter-jaws mounted for pivoting on the branches of the clamp, substantially inside the horizontal plane of said active grips, so as to be also situated outside the latter,
- and means for controlling the relative opening and closing of the counter-jaws with respect to the grips.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.