Apparatus for dividing into separate parts an assembly comprising heart and lungs

An apparatus for separating the heart and lungs from an entrails package removed from a slaughtered bird, said apparatus comprising:

• two adjacently disposed rotatable axes, said axes substantially parallel and defining a slit opening therebetween, said slit opening having a width so that lungs fall between said axes while hearts remain carried by said axes above said slit opening;
• a first surface profile section defined at one end of each of said rotatable axes, said first surface profile sections adjacently disposed and defining said slit opening therebetween, said first surface profile sections comprising protruding longitudinally spaced pull down members configured to pull down the lungs from an entrails package laid on said rotatable axes as said axes rotate so that the lungs are pulled from the heart and fall through said slit opening;
• a second surface profile section defined on each of said rotatable axes;
• each of said second surface profile sections comprising conveying members interspaced between said pull down members and configured to convey the heart and lungs along said axes towards an opposite end thereof as said axes rotate;
• and
• each of said axes further comprising a third surface profile section defined on said axes downstream from said first surface profile section in a conveying direction of said heart and lungs along said axes, each said third surface profile section comprising surface members configured and disposed to move the hearts along said axes after the lungs have fallen through said slit opening.