84results about "Fish arranging" patented technology

In one aspect, the present invention provides a wireless power supply having a plunger for mechanically interconnecting a remote device with the power supply. The plunger may be extendable / retractable to interfit with the remote device. In a second aspect, the present invention provides a wireless power supply with a movable primary that allows for close alignment between the primary and the secondary when the remote device is disposed within a range of different positions with respect to the charging surface. The movable primary may, for example, be coupled to the remote device by a peg, a plunger or a magnet. Alternatively, the position of the movable primary may be adjusted manually. In a third aspect, the present invention provides a charging bowl having a plurality of charging stations disposed about a common axis. Each charging station may include a movable primary that permits some freedom in positioning of the remote device on the charging surface. In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a wireless power supply having a manually movable primary.

Apparatus for transferring poultry carcasses from a first overhead conveyor to a second overhead conveyor, including a transfer wheel rotatable about a shaft and disposed between the first and the second overhead conveyors. The apparatus also includes a receipt point and a discharge point, the receipt point being disposed between the first overhead conveyor and the transfer wheel, the discharge point being disposed between the transfer wheel and the second overhead conveyor, and the receipt and discharge points are disposed on a centerline of the transfer wheel. The apparatus further includes a plurality of holders, each holder being configured to receive one of the carcasses from the first overhead conveyor at the receipt point and to discharge the carcass to the second overhead conveyor at the discharge point. Each holder has a first orientation at the receipt point and a second orientation at the discharge point, and the first and second orientations are relative to the centerline and are the same.

Method and apparatus are provided for mechanically processing an organ or organs taken out from slaughtered poultry in a processing device or processing line, which organ or organs form part of an organ package and wherein said organ or organs are separated from the organ package. The organ package is spatially oriented by the processing device without notably breaking tissue connections in the package, and in a preselected order so as to cause harvesting of organs from the package to occur in a preselected sequence that depends on the location of the organ package in the processing device or processing line.

A system and method for transferring live objects, such as chickens, to a shackle line are presented. The system and method include introducing a plurality of live objects to a singulator. The singulator isolates the individual live objects and places them in a pallet on a conveyor. The system may detect and remove cadavers from amongst the live objects. The conveyor leads the live objects to a grasper. The grasper positions the legs of the live objects so that a shackler can secure the legs of the live objects with a shackle. The live objects and the shackle are then inverted and passed on to a shackle line. The shackle line may be a kill line buffer or a kill line.

System for cleaning, cutting and handling fish (1), comprising: a first station (100) for positioning the fish (1), configured to place said fish (1) vertically on the second station (200), for skinning; a second, skinning station (200) configured to skin the fish (1) by abrasive means without damaging the flesh; a third station (300) for cutting the fish (2) skinned in the second station (200), configured to detect and remove the spine of the skinned fish (2), separating the two cut loins (3) from the backbone of said skinned fish (2), said backbone following a different path to the loins (3); and a fourth station (400) for gutting the loins (3), configured to remove the head and guts by means of pressurized water, while the tongs for grading clean and dirty fish remove the guts and send them to a grinder for waste products.

A fish handling unit for processing live fish is provided. Such fish handling unit includes an inspection system configured to inspect a plurality of live fish. A conveyor assembly transports the live fish to the inspection system. At least one robotic cell is in communication with the inspection system. The robotic cell has a controller configured to control operation thereof. An end effector is operably engaged with the robotic cell. The end effector interacts with the live fish moving along the conveyor assembly, based on information determined by the inspection system and received by the controller. The end effector may optionally be an integrated gripper and injection assembly capable of orientation and injection of the live fish. Associated devices and methods are also provided.

The invention relates to a freshwater fish pretreatment processing production line. The freshwater fish pretreatment processing production line comprises a fish inlet hopper device, a fish head, tail,belly and back orienting device, a fish scale removing device, a fish body conveyor belt device, a head and tail slitting device, a fish body sectioning device, a fish body internal organ sucking andcleaning device and a fish body internal black membrane removing device, wherein the fish inlet hopper device, the fish head, tail, belly and back orienting device, the fish scale removing device andthe fish body conveyor belt device are connected in sequence, and the head and tail slitting device, the fish body sectioning device, the fish body internal organ sucking and cleaning device and thefish body internal black membrane removing device are arranged on the fish body conveyor belt device in sequence. The freshwater fish pretreatment processing production line is high in automation degree, can synchronously complete a series of fish pretreatment processes such as fish body head, tail, belly and back orienting, fish scale removing, head and tail slitting, fish back sectioning, internal organ removing and black membrane cleaning, is high in production efficiency and automation degree, and can create obvious economic benefits for enterprises.

The invention relates to an apparatus (10) for automatically supplying fish (11) to a fish processing machine, comprising a cross-conveyor device (12) having carriers (13) forming receptacles for receiving and transporting individual fish (11), each having the abdomen or spine pointing forward in the transport direction T, to a device (15) for recognizing the respective abdominal / supinal position of said fish (11), and to a turning device (17) for turning incorrectly positioned fish (11) into a uniform abdominal / supinal position of all fish (11), characterized in that additionally a device (16) is provided for measuring the fish thickness and said turning device (17) comprises a first unit (18) for setting up said fish (11) and a second unit (19) for tilting said fish (11), wherein both units (18, 19) are effectively connected to said cross-conveyor device (12) and to said devices (15, 16) for recognizing the respective abdominal / supinal position and for measuring the fish thickness. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding method.

The invention discloses a fish head, tail, belly and back directional conveying device. The device includes a conveyor belt, an directional mechanism and a material outlet slide way; the conveyor belthas a starting end and a tail end along the length direction, the conveyor belt is used to bear and convey a plurality of fish in a lying state at intervals along the length direction, wherein the length direction of the fish and the length direction of the conveyor belt are arranged crosswise, and the directional mechanism is installed at the tail end of the conveyor belt to rotate the fish whenthe fish reaches the tail end of the conveyor belt to make the heads of the fish face the tail end of the conveyor belt; the material outlet slide way has an oppositely arranged material inlet end and material outlet end, the material inlet end is connected with the tail end of the conveyor belt, and the material outlet slide way is gradually inclined downward along the material outlet direction,and the material outlet end is located at a low position; and a groove with an upward opening is arranged in the material outlet end of the material outlet slide way in a recessed manner, and the shape of the groove is adapted to the head of each fish, so that the head of each fish enters the groove to form an upright state with a downward belly. The device has the advantages of a high degree ofautomation, high reliability and a simple structure.

The invention discloses orientating apparatus for live fish. The orientating apparatus comprises a fish discharging box, a conveying belt, an orientating fish tank and flow dividing devices, wherein aplurality of partition plates are arranged on the surface of the conveying belt at equal intervals, the side part of the conveying belt is provided with a guide plate, the orientating fish tank is divided into a plurality of continuous tank bodies, each tank body corresponds to one flow dividing device, and each flow dividing device comprises a guide channel, a direction adjusting channel and limiting discharge channels. Compared with the prior art, the orientating apparatus for live fish can automatically adjust the orientation of fish heads, so that the orientations of the fish heads entering a fish killing machine are kept consistent, and manual head turning is not needed, so that fish killing efficiency is improved.

Apparatus for transferring pliant articles, such as poultry carcasses or parts thereof, includes a first separator stage comprising a slide plate with spaced apart sets of guides for receiving articles and for conveying the articles toward a second separator stage. The second separator stage comprises a rotary drum with spaced apart hook-like tines which engage articles received from the slide plate for rotation to a position whereby the force of gravity allows the articles to be released from the drum to fall into respective compartments of a third separator stage. The third separator stage includes spaced apart moveable closures which are operated in timed relationship to each other to release the articles onto a conveyor or other apparatus to provide spacing and alignment of the articles generally in single file.

The invention relates to fish body posture adjustment equipment which comprises a vibration machine frame, a vibration device and a vibration platform structure; the vibration machine frame comprisesa supporting frame; the vibration device comprises a vibration motor mounted on the side of the supporting frame; the vibration platform structure comprises a vibration slideway arranged at the top ofthe supporting frame, and a fish outlet sliding chute connected with the tail end of the vibration slideway; the vibration slideway gradually inclines and extends to the fish outlet sliding chute; the height of the fish outlet sliding chute is lower than that of the vibration slideway; the width of the vibration slideway is gradually narrowed towards the fish outlet sliding chute, or / and the width of the fish outlet sliding chute is gradually narrowed towards the tail end of the fish outlet sliding chute; and the width of the fish outlet sliding chute is not greater than that of the vibrationslideway. The fish body posture adjustment equipment can automatically realize the orientation of a fish body, is simple and efficient, and facilitates realizing full automatic processing of a largeamount of fish.

The invention discloses a fish head removing device, which relates to the technical field of fish processing, and comprises a box body, a bracket, a driving shaft, a first driven shaft, a second driven shaft, a first transmission conveying assembly, a second transmission conveying assembly, a driving part, a wafer cutting machine, a receiving hopper, a plurality of fish body grooves and a plurality of fish head grooves; wherein the driving shaft, the second driven shaft and the first driven shaft are sequentially and rotationally installed in the box body, the multiple fish body grooves are sequentially installed on the first transmission conveying assembly, the fish head grooves are sequentially installed on the second transmission conveying assembly, and the wafer cutting machine is located above the side, close to the first driven shaft, of the second driven shaft and can stretch into the cutting gap; the receiving hopper is fixed to the inner wall of the side, provided with the second transmission conveying assembly, of the box body, and a discharging opening is formed in the side wall of the box body. The device is high in cutting capacity, small in fish extrusion, low in requirement for the body type of the freshwater fish, suitable for cutting most of the freshwater fish and wide in application range, and the fishes are not prone to move.

The invention relates to an ordered arrangement device for fishes and a control method thereof. The ordered arrangement device comprises a fish feeding mechanism, a fish discharging mechanism and a fish arrangement mechanism, wherein the fish arrangement mechanism is obliquely arranged between the fish feeding mechanism and the fish discharging mechanism; one end, close to the fish feeding mechanism, of the fish arrangement mechanism is higher than the other end of the fish discharging mechanism; a gap is formed between the fish discharging mechanism and the fish discharging mechanism; and anoverturning pulling wheel is correspondingly arranged at a position which is located below the gap and is close to the gap. According to the ordered arrangement device for the fishes, a body structureof hard fish heads and soft fish tails of fish products and an inertia principle that the gravity center moves downward continuously are utilized; the fish products with frontward fish heads can directly pass through the gap to enter the fish discharging mechanism, tails of the fish products with frontward fish tails fall into the gap and are pulled through the overturning pulling wheel to put the fish heads at the front side, so that ordered arrangement of the fish products is realized, the production efficiency of the fish products is greatly improved and the labor intensity and cost of manpower are reduced; and the ordered arrangement device is simple in structure and convenient to mount and maintain and funding investment of fish processing enterprises is reduced.

The invention relates to the technical field of processing equipment for fish, in particular to a descaling and gutting integrated machine for fish. The descaling and gutting integrated machine comprises a descaling drive mechanism, a descaling water spray mechanism, a descaling clamping mechanism, a descaling rack, a descaling and gutting engagement mechanism, a gutting drive mechanism, a guttingmechanism, a gutting water spray mechanism, a control mechanism, gutting clamping mechanisms and a gutting rack. By adopting a double-knife and double-brush gutting mode of employing automatic lifting cylinders, gutting is clean and thorough, and damage to a fish body is avoided. A simple and effective cant engagement device is designed between a descaling part and a gutting part, so that the fish body can be effectively turned over in a manner that a fish belly is downward to be transported to the gutting part as long as the fish body is placed in a manner that a fish head is forward and thefish belly is toward a center line of a descaling plate during descaling and material transporting.

A device (30) is provided for the inversion of bodies of meat (e.g., pork bellies 162, 164) during processing thereof in order to eliminate the manual labor involved in conventional packing house operations. The device (30) includes a rotatable inversion drum (32) made up of inner and outer drum subassemblies (42, 44), which are selectively interconnected by means of lock pin cylinders (86). An entry conveyor (34) serves to direct incoming meat bodies to the drum (32) and an exit conveyor (36) is provided to convey inverted meat bodies away from the drum (32). In preferred forms, the drum (32) has a pair of circumferentially spaced apart, elongated, transversely extending clamping rods (90), which are selectively shiftable towards and away from the drum (32) in order to sequentially clamp an incoming meat body to the drum (32) during rotation thereof, and to release the meat body after inversion thereof onto exit conveyor (36). The operation of device (30) is controlled by appropriate sensors (118, 158, 160) operably coupled with a digital controller.

The invention discloses automatic attitude adjusting equipment for a freshwater fish segmentation system. The equipment comprises an attitude adjusting cabin, a turning frame, a fish stop platform anda control system; a cabin door is arranged on the side wall of the attitude adjusting cabin; the turning frame is arranged in the attitude cabin, the turning frame comprises a first clamp plate and asecond clamp plate which are connected to a rotating shaft, and the space between the first clamp plate and the second clamp plate is smaller than the width of a to-be-divided fish body; the fish stop platform comprises a panel used for placing a to-be-treated fish body, an image capturing device used for collecting the state of the fish body on the panel and a push plate which pushes the fish body into the attitude adjusting cabin; the control system identifies an image of the image capturing device, judges the fish body attitude, and controls the turning frame to rotate counterclockwise orclockwise by 90 degrees. The equipment can be used for fish body transfer between a scaling machine and a fish segmentation device, and the functions of fish body, fish back and fish belly orientatingand transferring can be automatically implemented, and the efficiency and quality of fish pretreatment are improved. The invention further provides the freshwater fish segmentation system.

The present invention discloses a device for orientating fish bodies based on a capacitance and audio detection technology. The device comprises a main conveying belt, an annular conveying belt, an auxiliary conveying belt, a capacitance detection mechanism and a sorting mechanism. The capacitance detection mechanism is used for collecting capacitance change signals and judging whether a head of afish body is in front or a tail of the fish body is in front according to the capacitance change signals. A limiting touch mechanism is arranged on the auxiliary conveying belt and used for clampingand limiting the fish body, an audio detection mechanism comprises a knocking module and a sound pickup module, the sound pickup module receives sound signals generated after the fish head is knocked,accurately judges whether one side of the fish head is a skull or a lower jaw, and thus judges whether a belly of the fish is on a left side or a right side. A position correcting mechanism is arranged on the auxiliary conveying belt to realize upward back faces and downward belly faces to move forwards along with the auxiliary conveying belt. The device can unify directions of the fish bodies with different orientation, then conducts directional sorting, and facilitates automatic processing of a subsequent production line.

The invention discloses a pretreatment device for an aquatic product before salting. The pretreatment device comprises a conveyer belt and a processing table, wherein the processing table is located on the right side of the conveyer belt; a bottom bin is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the processing table, a bearing is fixedly installed at the bottom of an inner cavity of the bottom bin, the topof the bearing is rotationally connected with a telescopic rod, and a cross-shaped groove is formed in the processing table in a penetrating manner; positioning plates are fixedly connected to tops of two sides of the processing table, clamping plates are movably connected to the left part and the right part of the top side of the processing table, support frames are fixedly connected to tops ofthe two positioning plates, a top frame is fixedly connected between the tops of the support frames, an air cylinder is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the top frame, the bottom of the air cylinder is fixedly connected with a down press plate, and guide plates are fixedly connected to two sides of the down press plate. The pretreatment device is simple in structure, convenient and practical, andcan spread fish bodies after fish evisceration, increase the surface contact area between fish and a salting material and facilitate subsequent salting processing of the fish.

Methods and systems for processing fish, such as salmon, are provided which enable filleting of the fish in a particular efficient manner. An example method includes exposing a backbone of a fish from a belly side of the fish, positioning the backbone of the fish on a conveyor device, and conveying the fish with the backbone in contact with the conveyor device. The conveyor may be a spiked chain, and positioning the backbone of the fish on the conveyor device may include engaging the backbone of the fish with the spiked chain such that the fish straddles the spiked chain as the fish is transported. The method may further include cutting the fish from the dorsal side on each of opposing sides of a central plane of the fish to a location adjacent a connection of the pinbones of the fish with the vertebrae of the fish while the fish is conveyed with the backbone in contact with the conveyor device, and subsequently peeling the ribs and ventral spines from fillets of the fish.

The invention relates to an angle-adjustable fish head removing device, and belongs to the field of fish processing equipment. The device mainly comprises a rack, a transmission mechanism, a head cutter and an angle adjusting mechanism, wherein the transmission mechanism is fixed on the rack and comprises a transmission part used for continuously transmitting fish to be cut; the head cutter is arranged on one side of the transmission part in the moving direction and cuts the fish head of the fish to be cut along with the movement of the transmission part; and the angle adjusting mechanism is used for adjusting the angle of the fish body in the horizontal direction, and is fixed on the transmission part and performs transmission along with the transmission part. The device solves the problem that an existing fish head removing device can only conduct linear or V-shaped fixed-angle cutting, a fish head and a fish body are mixed after cutting and the cutting quality in the head removing process is poor, and has the effects that the head removing angle is adjustable, the economical efficiency is good and the cutting quality is high.

In a device and method for controlling the commencement of operation of at least one tool in a fish processing machine, a guide element penetrates the interior of the fish so as to perform alignment of the fish before the tool begins its application. A monitoring device associated with the guide element includes a sensor for determining the guide element / fish position. An evaluating unit connected to the sensor compares nominal and actual position values. On reaching an adjustable nominal position value, a signal for actuating the tool is triggered. Therefore, the tool comes into operation only when the monitoring device yields an actual value for the fish position which corresponds to the nominal value when the guide element has penetrated properly.

The invention discloses a fish head and tail directional conveying device, which solves the problem that the existing fish body head and tail directional conveying device has large volume, and the production efficiency and positioning efficiency are required to be improved. The technical scheme includes a horizontal reciprocating vibration table connected to a first driving device, the surface ofthe horizontal reciprocating vibration table is covered with an directional conveyor belt, the middle portion of the directional conveyor belt is a feeding region, the two ends are discharge areas, and baffle plates are arranged on both sides, and the surface of the directional conveyor belt is uniformly arranged with protruding teeth in a horizontal reciprocating direction. The directional conveying device has the advantages of simple structure, small equipment volume, less ground occupation, high positioning efficiency and high transportation efficiency.

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.

A fish stunning apparatus comprising a fish stunning device (100) including a striker (400); said striker (400) including a cylinder and a piston (443), said piston (443) movable between a retracted position and an extended position; a fish guide (200) having an entrance (230) and an exit (240); said fish guide (200) guiding a fish below said striker (400) so that said piston (443) contacts said fish when said piston (443) is in the extended position; trigger (300) to cause said piston (443) to be moved from the retracted position to the extended position when said fish is passed through said fish guide (200); wherein said fish is moved unidirectionally from said entrance (230) through said guide (200) to the exit (240). A fish guide (200) comprising an entrance (230), an exit (240) and a pivotally movable floor (220) and a table for distributing fish for stunning are also disclosed.