DEVICE FOR POULTRY NECK SEPARATION Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC A22C21/06 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: device for poultry neck separation (24) comprises a frame (1, 2), a rotor with operating elements (14) and a height adjustment mechanism (5, 6); 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), a control cam (7) and a disk cutter (10) with a drive (9) are stationary mounted at the lower part (2), the rotor (12) with bearings (11) is installed and fitted by rods (13) with vertically movable operating elements (14) in the form of an upper (15) and a lower (16) gripping units and connected to a shaft (22) with a sprocket (18) of one of 90-degree-turnable stations of the aerial conveyor (4); the joint of the rotor (12) and the shaft (22) is movable, and the diameter D of the o-centers of the gripping units (15, 16) at the operating elements (14) is equal to the reference diameter of the sprocket (18).

EFFECT: automation of poultry neck separation process, decrease of the length of poultry carrying aerial conveyor, improvement of hygiene and sanitary conditions at poultry processing and possibility to cut the neck at the required level.

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