Patent ID: 9532579
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: A22C

Claim:
1. A processing or inspection line for poultry, comprising a first conveyor line including shackles for suspending poultry by the legs, wherein the conveyor line is arranged to move the poultry in a conveying direction past a processing station, inspection station, or both, for the poultry; and an endless belt along at least a part of the first conveyor line, the endless belt supporting the shackles and maintaining the shackles sideways deflected in a second position away from a first neutral vertical suspension position, in which second position the shackles are suspended obliquely in the first conveyor line whilst being supported and resting against the endless belt so as to arrange that any back-and-forth movement of the shackles in their conveying direction is prevented or counteracted; wherein the first conveyor line is arranged to move the poultry in a conveying direction past an inspection station, and wherein at least at the inspection station a second conveyor line is provided with receptacles for receiving intestines therein that are taken from the poultry suspended by the legs in the shackles of the first conveyor line, wherein the second conveyor line is arranged to move synchronously with the first conveyor line for maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between the poultry in a shackle of the first conveyor line, and the intestines received in the receptacle in the second conveyor line, which receptacle is immediately below the poultry in the first conveyor line.