APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING SUBSTANCES WITH DIFFERENT FLOWABILITY

    公开(公告)号:US20220152965A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17530713

    申请日:2021-11-19

    IPC分类号: B30B9/24

    摘要: An apparatus for separating substances of different flowability includes a housing base, a hollow drum having a perforated peripheral surface which is arranged on the housing base and is driven in a revolving manner, a continuous press belt pressed from outside against the hollow drum, while wrapping around a portion of the circumference of the hollow drum, and which, together with the hollow drum, forms an intake wedge for the material to be pressed. The press belt is mounted by at least one drive roller and at least one bearing roller, and is distinguished by the fact that the drive roller is mounted on a bearing support. The bearing support is arranged on the housing base so as to be adjustable in terms of position. A corresponding method is also provided for adapting the apparatus.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RECOVERING BREAST FILLETS FROM POULTRY CARCASSES OR PARTS THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220104509A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17429478

    申请日:2019-09-30

    发明人: Adrian Schulze

    IPC分类号: A22C21/00

    摘要: An apparatus for automatically recovering breast fillets from poultry bodies or parts thereof has a conveying device to continuously convey the poultry bodies in a conveying direction. The conveying device has receiving elements to hold and convey the poultry bodies along a processing path. Processing stations are arranged on the processing path and the stations include at least a furcula-removal station and a breast fillet detaching station. At least one measuring device is arranged on the processing path downstream of the breast fillet detaching station. The poultry bodies held by the receiving elements are conveyed past the measuring device such that the sternum of the poultry bodies is oriented at least substantially transversely to the conveying direction with the breast side facing the measuring device. The measuring device has a scanning element to mechanically scan the poultry bodies on the breast side. A corresponding method is also provided.

    HOLDING APPARATUS FOR HOLDING A GUTTED POULTRY CARCASS OR A PART THEREOF DURING PROCESSING IN A DEVICE FOR PROCESSING GUTTED POULTRY CARCASSES OR PARTS THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220095632A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-31

    申请号:US17426259

    申请日:2020-01-24

    IPC分类号: A22C21/00

    摘要: A holding apparatus for holding a gutted poultry body/part during processing has a support body supporting the body/part, a fastening body for holding the support body and fastening the holding apparatus to a circulatingly driven transport unit, and a clamping device for securing the body/part to the support body. The clamping device has a hook for penetrating into soft parts and a clamping lever. The lever has a clamping jaw for clamping parts of the body/part against the hook lower side directed towards the support body. The hook lower side is spaced apart from the support body to form a free space for receiving the parts to be clamped. The clamping lever is movable, against a spring force, from a standby position into a clamping position, and back. The clamping lever also has a centring shoulder projecting into the free space when the clamping lever is in the standby position.

    DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING MATERIALS OF DIFFERENT FLOWABILITY THAT ARE MIXED TOGETHER

    公开(公告)号:US20220024167A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-27

    申请号:US17311898

    申请日:2019-12-09

    IPC分类号: B30B9/24

    摘要: An apparatus for separating mixed materials of different flowability includes a frame structure, a hollow drum with a perforated peripheral surface driven in rotation and mounted on the structure, a continuous compression belt pressed against the peripheral surface from outside when wrapped around part of the drum circumference and driven in circulation, a product intake wedge formed by the belt and drum for conducting a product stream, into the apparatus between the drum and the belt in an inlet area of the product stream, and a support apparatus for the belt, with at least one support element which is arranged on the side of the belt opposite the drum, wherein the support element is configured as a roller track with at least partially spring-mounted rollers arranged successively in the conveying direction. The spring force of at least individual rollers is controllable. A corresponding method is also provided.

    APPARATUS FOR CUTTING FISH FILLETS FROM FLANK BONES, FILLETING APPARATUS WITH SUCH AN APPATATUS, AND METHOD FOR CUTTING FISH FILLETS FROM FLANK BONES

    公开(公告)号:US20200329723A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-22

    申请号:US16617041

    申请日:2018-05-29

    IPC分类号: A22C25/18 A22C25/08

    摘要: Filleting apparatus cutting fish fillets from flank bones. The fish fillets been processed by a ventral knife assembly and a dorsal knife assembly. A conveying apparatus, transporting fish tail-first in transport direction, having an endlessly circulating transport conveyor with at least one transport saddle receiving/securing a fish, a flank knife assembly with two flank knife units, opposing each other on both sides of the transport conveyor in the region of a transport saddle guide. Each flank knife unit has a rotatably drivable circular knife and counter-surface arrangement Circular knife is arranged at a distance from the counter-surface arrangement to form a cutting gap and a control device moves flank knife units relative to the transport conveyor from standby position into working position and back. The counter-surface arrangements vary the size of the cutting gap controllably during the processing operation.

    Cutting/portioning using combined X-ray and optical scanning

    公开(公告)号:US10654185B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-19

    申请号:US15658817

    申请日:2017-07-25

    摘要: A processing system (10) and corresponding method (158) are provided for processing workpieces (WP), including food items, to cut and remove undesirable components from the food items and/or portion the food items while being conveyed on a conveyor system (12). An X-ray scanning station (14) is located on an upstream conveyor section (20) to ascertain size and/or shape parameters of the food items as well as the location of any undesirable components of the food items, such as bones, fat or cartilage. Thereafter the food items are transferred to a downstream conveyor (20) at which is located an optical scanner (102) to ascertain the size and/or shape parameters of the food items. The results of the X-ray and optical scanning are transmitted to a processor (18) to confirm that the food item scanned by the optical scanner is the same as that previously scanned by the X-ray scanner. Once this identity is confirmed, if required, the data from the X-ray scanner is translated or transformed onto the data from the optical scanner. Such translation may include one or more of the shifting of the food items in the X and/or Y direction, rotation of the food item, scaling of the size of the food item, and sheer distortion of the food item. Next, the location of the undesirable material within the food item is mapped from the X-ray scanning data onto the optical scanning data. Thereafter, the undesirable material is removed by a cutter(s) (28). The food item may also (or alternatively) been portioned by the cutter(s) (28).

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING THE PRONE/SUPINE POSITION OF FISH CONVEYED BY MEANS OF A CONVEYING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20190133141A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16096040

    申请日:2017-04-24

    IPC分类号: A22C25/12 A22C25/08 B65G47/46

    摘要: The present invention relates to a method for detecting the prone/supine position of fish (12) conveyed by means of a conveying device (13), comprising conveying the fish (12) by means of the conveying device (13) in the longitudinal direction (11) of the fish, optically scanning the ventral side (15) and dorsal side (16) of the fish (12) as a pair in order to determine a first brightness value profile of a first side and a second brightness value profile of a second side of a respective fish (12) by means of optical scanning means (14), determining a first ordered data series and a second ordered data series by ordering brightness values of the first brightness value profile and of the second brightness value profile according to a predefined ordering criterion, determining a first median from the first ordered data series and a second median from the second ordered data series, determining at least one differential value from the first median and the second median, and determining the prone/supine position by comparing the at least one differential value with at least one predetermined reference value. The present invention further relates to a corresponding apparatus.

    TRANSPORTING STATION AND METHOD FOR TRANSPORTING FISH IN A TRANSPORTING DIRECTION, WHICH IS TRANSVERSE TO THEIR LONGITUDINAL EXTENT, AND FISH-PROCESSING MACHINE HAVING SUCH A TRANSPORTING STATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190124935A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16309677

    申请日:2017-05-29

    IPC分类号: A22C25/08 A22C25/12 A22B7/00

    摘要: The invention relates to a transporting station (10), designed and configured for transporting fish transverse to their longitudinal extent in a transport direction T, comprising a conveying device (11) for transporting individual, separated fish in a lying position along a transport path TL from an entry region E of the conveying device (11) to an exit region A of the conveying device (11), wherein the conveying device (11) comprises a rotationally driven transport element (12) which is characterised in that the conveying device (11) is assigned a change-over device (13) which is designed and configured and is in operative connection with the conveying device (11), in such a manner that the fish can be transferred automatically from the lying position on the transport path TL of the conveying device (11) into a suspended position on a transport path TH of the change-over device (13). The invention is also concerned with a fish processing machine (47) having such a transporting station (10), and with a corresponding method.

    FISH-SUPPLYING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190116817A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US16096090

    申请日:2016-04-26

    IPC分类号: A22C25/08 A22C25/12

    CPC分类号: A22C25/08 A22C25/12

    摘要: The present invention concerns a fish feed-in device (10) which is designed to supply fish (13) to a plurality of fish-processing devices and comprises a transverse conveyor (14) designed to convey the fish (13) transversely to their head-tail orientation in a transverse conveying direction (15), wherein the transverse conveyor (14) comprises a plurality of receptacles (17) each designed to individually hold one of the fish (13), and the transverse conveyor (14) has a controllable drive unit (19), at least one feeder device (11) designed to supply fish to the receptacles (17) of the transverse conveyor (14), a plurality of transfer devices (16) which are designed to selectively transfer the fish (13) from the transverse conveyor to longitudinal conveyors (12) arranged upstream of the respective fish-processing devices, wherein the longitudinal conveyors (12) are designed to convey the fish (13) in their head-tail orientation to the fish-processing machines, and a control device which is designed to control the at least one feeder device (11), the transfer devices (16), and the conveying speed of the transverse conveyor (14) on the basis of at least one predefined distribution specification. The invention furthermore concerns a corresponding method for supplying fish.

    Conveying and distributing apparatus for slaughtered fish

    公开(公告)号:US10258054B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-16

    申请号:US15502179

    申请日:2015-06-24

    发明人: Ulf Jacobsen

    摘要: The present invention relates to a conveying and distributing apparatus for delivering fish slaughtered by means of a plurality of slaughtering machines to at least one distributing device, comprising longitudinal conveyors downstream of each of the slaughtering machines, which are configured to receive the slaughtered fish longitudinally in a head to tail orientation, wherein each of the longitudinal conveyors comprises a weighing device for detecting the weight of the slaughtered fish, at least one first transfer device is arranged on each of the longitudinal conveyors, which are designed and configured to transfer the slaughtered fish to at least one transverse conveyor, wherein the at least one transverse conveyor is adapted to receive the slaughtered fish transversely with respect to the head to tail orientation, a feed device arranged on the end of the transverse conveyor, which is designed and configured to remove the slaughtered fish from the transverse conveyor and to feed the same to a distributing device, and a control device, wherein the control device comprises a position tracking means for tracking the respective positions of slaughtered fish and an allocation means for allocating the detected weights to the respective tracked positions of the slaughtered fish, and wherein the control device is designed and configured to control the distributing device on the basis of the detected weights when the slaughtered fish enter the distributing device according to a predefined distribution rule. The invention further relates to a corresponding arrangement and a corresponding method.