Back to results
US 9,282,751 B2Granted
Method and installation for stunning poultry and the obtainable bleeded poultry
AssigneeTopkip B.V.
InventorsWim Van Stuijvenberg, Martin Mouthaan, Richard De Rijcke, Twan Van Bijnen
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and installation for stunning poultry, such as chicken, turkey, duck and quail, comprising the steps of: i) suspending the poultry with the poultry head down; ii) positioning the suspended poultry head; and iii) stunning the poultry via the suspended and positioned poultry head, and to obtainable debleeded poultry.
Claims17
A method for stunning living poultry, comprising:
- (i) suspending the living poultry to provide suspended living poultry in a downwardly suspended position with the head positioned downwardly and the legs extending upwardly;
- (ii) positioning the suspended living poultry at a positioning location downwardly with respect to the suspending;
- (iii) imparting relative vertical movement between the positioning location and the suspended living poultry, thereby confining the upper body portion of the poultry and accommodating the neck of the suspended living poultry with a V-shaped positioning element;
- and
- (iv) electro-stunning the poultry via the suspended and positioned living poultry head.
2 more elements
An installation for stunning living poultry, comprising:
- (i) means for suspending living poultry in a downwardly suspended position with the head positioned downwardly and the legs extending upwardly;
- (ii) means for positioning the suspended living poultry, the positioning means being positioned downwardly with respect to the suspending means;
- (iii) means for electro-stunning the living poultry, the electro-stunning means having at least one electrode that is accommodated by the positioning means;
- (iv) means for imparting relative vertical movement between the positioning means and the suspended living poultry, whereby the positioning means confines the upper body portion of the living poultry and comprises a V-shaped positioning element that accommodates the neck of the suspended living poultry;
- and
- (v) the electrode engages the head of the living poultry that is positioned by the positioning means, and the electro-stunning means stuns the living poultry.
3 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.