DEVICE FOR SEPARATION OF HEADS WITH TRACHEA AND GULLET FROM POULTRY CARCASS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A22C21/06 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: device for separation of heads with trachea and gullet from poultry necks comprises a frame, a rotor with operating elements and a height adjustment mechanism; the frame consists of an upper (1) and lower (2) parts, the upper frame part (1) is fixed at the body (3) of an aerial conveyor (4), the lower part (1) and the upper part (2) of the frame are interconnected by the height adjustment mechanism (5, 6), the rotor (8) is installed at bearings (7) of the lower frame part (2) and fitted by stationary operating elements in the form of horizontal (9) and vertical (10) pushers and connected to a shaft (11) with a sprocket (12) of one of 90-degree-turnable stations (13) of the aerial conveyor (4); the joint of the rotor (8) and the shaft (11) is movable, and the diameter of the vertical pushers' center alignment is equal to the reference diameter D of the sprocket, the lower frame part (2) is additionally equipped by two sloped plates (17) and (18) whose leading edges "a" and "b" in horizontal projection form two concentric circular arcs of 90 degrees which are equally spaced in respect to the sprocket reference diameter D.

EFFECT: simplified design, reduced labour inputs at manufacturing and maintenance of the device, decreased length of poultry processing conveyor.

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