US 6,783,451 B2 · Method and apparatus for removing faecal matter from slaughtered poultry suspended by the legs and for cleaning the poultry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for removing faecal matter from slaughtered poultry suspended by the legs, wherein the poultry, after having been cut for bleeding, is scalded to soften the feathers of the poultry, and after having been scalded is plucked and eviscerated to provide fresh defeathered slaughtered poultry, wherein also the removal of faecal matter takes place by prior to evisceration removing not yet unloaded faecal matter from the poultry by applying a pressure load to the abdominal cavity of the poultry, and simultaneously or subsequently spraying away the faecal matter squeezed out of the poultry with water and/or air.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A method for removing faecal matter from suspended slaughtered poultry, comprising:

cutting the poultry for bleeding;
scalding the poultry to soften feathers prior to plucking the feathers;
eviscerating the poultry;
and
prior to said scalding and said eviscerating, removing faecal matter from the poultry by applying continuously a constant or variable pressure load to the abdominal cavity of the poultry while the poultry is supported by a support organ that is disposed to oppose the pressure load and simultaneously or subsequently spraying away the faecal matter squeezed out of the poultry by the pressure load.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

10/271,356Filed 15 Oct 2002

Priority

NL 101917916 Oct 2001

Published

US 2003/0092372 A115 May 2003

Granted

31 Aug 2004

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

A22C 21/0061
Processing poultry: cleaning or disinfecting poultry
Y02A 40/90
Adaptation technologies in agriculture, forestry, livestock or agroalimentary production: in food processing or handling, e.g. food conservation
A22C
Processing meat, poultry, or fish
Y02A
Technologies for adaptation to climate change

Method and apparatus for removing faecal matter from slaughtered poultry suspended by the legs and for cleaning the poultry

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Method and apparatus for removing faecal matter from slaughtered poultry suspended by the legs and for cleaning the poultry

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Abstract

Claims19