FIELD: food industry.
SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to poultry-processing industry, namely to a method, an installation and a device for stunning live poultry intended for slaughtering and located in containers (11), using a gas mixture containing a deafening gas. Device (10) comprises deafening gas, stunning camera (12) comprising at least two stunning zones (13), loading section (14) located on the inlet side of stunning camera (12) and intended for loading said or each container (11), in which there are live birds, and unloading section (15) located on the exhaust side of stall chamber (12) and intended for unloading of the above or each container (11), in which there are stun birds, at least one conveyor (16) for moving said or each container (11) in direction of transportation T via stunning zones (13) from loading section (14) to unloading section (15), as well as device (17) for supply of said gas mixture into zones (13) of stunning camera (12) of stunning. Gas mixture supply means (17) comprises at least one injection tube (18) movable relative to said container (11) to provide detachable connection with said or each container (11) and disconnection therefrom so as to be capable of filling each container (11) with said gas mixture, when said container (11) is in detachable connection with said or each injection tube (18). Each pressure tube (18) is configured to move into the inner space of each container (11) contained in the pile of containers and move from said or each container (11), so that each container (11) can be filled separately from said pile containing birds, with a gas mixture exiting said or each injection tube (18) and directed from the inside.
EFFECT: enabling uniform stunning of birds in each container.
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