Patent ID: 11937610
Assignee: MIDWAY MACHINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 7:
8. A poultry processing system comprising:
a receiving module for receiving and unloading a poultry transport vehicle;
a poultry stunning system for irreversibly stunning poultry;
a stunned poultry hanging station configured for retrieval and processing of stunned poultry for transfer to a slaughter facility;
a conveyor system configured to convey poultry from said receiving module to said poultry stunning system to said poultry hanging station; and
an empty poultry cage handling system adapted to transport empty poultry cages from said stunned poultry hanging station to a loading zone from which the empty cages are loaded on a transport vehicle, said empty poultry cage handling system comprising a cage washing system configured to clean the empty cages and a cage stacking system configured to stack the clean empty cages.