DEVICE FOR REMOVAL OF VISCERA IN FISH Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC A22C25/14 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: device comprises conveyor with trays, a tool for fixation of fish carcass on tray and hydraulic unit with a nozzle, installed with possibility of changing distance in horizontal plane from nozzle to head section of fish, fixed on tray. Tool for fixation of fish carcass on tray is made in form of a drum with shaped slots. Hydraulic unit is equipped with an electric motor, shaft of which has an inner cavity. In inner cavity of shaft is fixed a centrifugal conical nozzle. Device for changing distance from nozzle to head section of fish is equipped with a stepper motor, connected with hydraulic unit by means of ball screw gear, as well as computing unit, connected to step motor and electric motor. Before hydraulic unit above conveyor are oppositely arranged a laser radiation source and a linear photodetector connected with a computing unit.

EFFECT: invention ensures reduction of power consumption and higher quality of removal of viscera in fish.

1 cl, 4 dwg