Method and apparatus for anaesthetizing animals for slaughter with gas
AssigneeStork MPS B.V.
InventorsThomas Gerardus Maria Jacobs, Sander Antonie Van Ochten, Adrianus Josephus Van Den Nieuwelaar, Jenneke Antonia Christina Lankhaar
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Abstract
A method for anaesthetizing animals for slaughter is provided using gas by transporting the animals for anaesthetizing through a gas-filled anaesthetizing space. The gas is introduced into the anaesthetizing space by a gas feed and gas is drawn out of the anaesthetizing space at a distance from the gas feed by a gas discharge. An apparatus for anaesthetizing livestock for slaughter using gas is provided with an anaesthetizing space having a supply opening and a discharge opening for gas.
Claims35
A method for anaesthetizing animals for slaughter using gas, comprising the steps of:
- transporting the animals for anaesthetizing through a gas-filled anaesthetizing space;
- introducing gas into the anaesthetizing space by a gas feed;
- drawing gas out of the anaesthetizing space by a gas discharge spaced from the gas feed with respect to a transporting direction of the animals such that a controllable and substantially continuous gas flow substantially parallel to the transporting direction is established between the gas feed and the gas discharge.
An apparatus for anaesthetizing animals for slaughter, said apparatus comprising:
- an anaesthetizing space provided with an inlet opening and an outlet opening for the animals for slaughter;
- a conveyor movable in a transporting direction through the anaesthetizing space for forced movement of the animals for slaughter through the anaesthetizing space;
- a gas feed connectable to a gas supply and a gas discharge debouching in said anaesthetizing space, said gas discharge spaced from said gas feed with respect to a conveying direction of the animals such that a controllable and substantially continuous gas flow is established substantially parallel to the transporting direction between said gas feed and said gas discharge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.