Plucking apparatus for poultry
AssigneeBritish Technology Group Limited
InventorsChristopher Michael Wathes, David Bernard Tinker, Colin Gibson
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Abstract
A plucking unit, apparatus or equipment (25) for plucking poultry carcasses on a shackle line (26) including a plurality of individual plucking units (10), one for each of a number of carcasses to be plucked at any one time, and shielding means (12) included in or provided additionally to, said plucking units (10) whereby the plucking heads of each said unit are shielded from the plucking heads of the neighboring units during plucking.
Claims18
Poultry processing equipment including:
- a shackle line,
- a plurality of individual plucking units operatively positioned adjacent said shackle line, one for each of a number of carcasses to be plucked at any one time,
- each of said plurality of plucking units having plucking heads,
- shielding means for said plucking units whereby the plucking heads of each said unit are shielded from the plucking heads of the neighboring units during plucking, and
- means for cleaning each of the plucking units between successive plucking operations by that unit.
Plucking apparatus for plucking poultry carcasses on a shackle line including:
- plurality of individual plucking units, one for each of a number of carcasses to be plucked at any one time,
- each one of said plurality of plucking units having plucking heads, and
- shielding means for said plucking units whereby the plucking heads of each of said unit are shielded from the plucking heads of the neighboring units during plucking.
A plurality of plucking units, each plucking unit including:
- plucking heads;
- shielding means for shielding the plucking heads of said unit from plucking heads of a neighboring unit during plucking;
- and
- a support for the plucking head comprising a bin, wherein the bin serves as said shielding means, the bin being one of an open-topped single-piece bin into which a carcass is lowered, a hinged bin which can open or close about the carcass, and a two-part split bin where the two halves of the bin have no direct permanent connection between them and only come together to enclose the carcass for plucking.
Plucking apparatus for plucking poultry carcasses including:
- a shackle line and a plurality of individual plucking units operatively positioned adjacent the shackle line, one for each of a number of carcasses to be plucked at any one time,
- each of said plurality of plucking units having plucking heads, and
- shielding means for said plucking units whereby the plucking heads of each of said unit are shielded from the plucking heads of the neighboring units during plucking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.