Patent ID: 11925186
Assignee: nan
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 14:
15. A method of decapitating a fish, comprising the steps of:
a) supporting a fish in an infeed loading zone on a fish support with its belly side down and its backbone in a substantially horizontal orientation;
b) guiding the fish by gripping the fish via a fish anatomical body part so that only the body of the fish is supported by the fish support;
b) driving the fish in a downward direction and at an acute angle to vertical from said infeed loading zone downstream to a head cutting zone while said fish is held by its anatomical body part and supported by said fish support;
c) pushing the head of the fish upwardly and rearwardly as the fish travels downstream from the infeed loading zone to the head cutting zone; and
d) cutting the head of the fish from the body of the fish in the heads cutting zone.