METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEPARATING INTESTINE PACKS FROM SLAUGHTERED POULTRY, PARTICULARLY BROILERS

摘要

A method and apparatus for separating intestine packs (10) from slaughtered poultry, in particular broilers, and where intestine packs (10) are suspended from intestine clips (8), where the intestine pack (10) with arbitrary orientation is inserted between mainly horizontal, curved guide plates (12) extending along the periphery of a reversing wheel (4) in such a way that proventriculus (24), gizzards (26), heart/lungs (28) and liver (22) are disposed over the guide plates (12), and that the intestine pack (18) with gall bladder (19) is disposed at the underside of the guide plates (12), that the intestine pack (18) is clamped between clip brackets (16) rotating about the reversing wheel (4) and which is successively displaced downward for exerting a downward directed pull in the intestine pack (18) while the intestine pack (10) passes by a rotating cutter (20) cutting free the intestine pack (18) and the gall bladder (19) from the liver (22), that the remaining intestine pack (34), i.e. proventriculus (24), gizzard (26), heart/lungs (28) and liver (22), is released, preferably over a funnel (36), and passed on to a second apparatus for further separation, namely cutting free of heart/lungs (28) and subsequent scraping off the liver (22).