Patent ID: 8900039
Filing Date: 2014-12-02
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
1. An organ removal device for removing one or more organs or parts thereof located adjacent a spinal column of a carcass on opposite sides thereof from a wall of a body cavity of slaughtered eviscerated poultry, the poultry having an access opening to the body cavity thereof, said device comprising: a poultry support device configured to support and position the access opening and the spinal column of the poultry; a vacuum tube assembly, said vacuum tube assembly comprising: a vacuum tube assembly actuator for moving the vacuum tube assembly into and out of the body cavity through the access opening; a source of vacuum pressure communicating with the two vacuum tubes to suck the one or more organs via the suction nozzles into the two vacuum tubes; and a sweeping mechanism adapted to impart to each of said two scrapers a sweeping motion away and/or towards the spinal column.