Patent ID: 8739695

Claim:
A method of feeding eggs to an egg breaking apparatus, where eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices by means of a feed conveyor, each egg breaking device receiving one egg at a time and all egg breaking devices being mounted on a common drive conveyor, where the egg breaking devices are moved in relation to the feed conveyor in a first direction following a substantially vertical first axis at the area of the feed conveyor, and where the feed conveyor feeds eggs to the egg breaking devices along a substantially horizontal second axis, characterized in that, when near a position at the feed conveyor, the egg breaking devices are tilted about a third axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the first and second axes, in a second direction substantially opposite to said first direction wherein the tilting of the egg breaking device causes vertical movement briefly decreasing the velocity, to reduce an impact load encountered by the egg when transferred to the egg breaking device.