Patent ID: 8900039

Claim:
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: two vacuum tubes, each of said two vacuum tubes having at least one suction nozzle at an end thereof; and two scrapers, each of said two scrapers being provided adjacent the at least one suction nozzle of a respective vacuum tube and being arranged to scrape along a region of the wall of the body cavity to loosen organs adhering to the wall of the body cavity, the regions being located on opposite sides of the spinal column; 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.