| 摘要 |
A cattle carcass processing system comprises a carcass input system 1, a deboning system 2, a trimming system 3, a quality control inspection system 4, a primal membrane removal system 5, and a packaging system 6. The input system 1 comprises an overhead chiller conveyor 10 along which carcass slides 11 are delivered to a transfer station 12. The carcass side 11 is split into a hinquarter 14 and a forequarter 15 and alternate forequarters 14 and hindquarters 15 are delivered onto a main processing rail 21 The deboning system 2 comprises the overhead rail 21 along which a plurality of carriages 22 run. Each carriage 22 carries a support hook 13 for a carcass quarter. The carriages 22 are located between a pair of dogs 23, 24. A leading dog 24 is used to sop the carriage 22 and a trailing dog 23 is used to drive the carriage 22 forwards. The dogs 23, 24 are suspended from a moving chain 25. The dogs 23, 24 are pivotal on arms 27 carried by the endless motor driven chain 25. An incoming quarter 14, 15 is weighed and the weight and other details are introduced into the system ny scanning the unique bar-coded label 29 attached to the quarter while it is weighed. This animal identification is tracked and traced throughout the remainder of the process. The beef quarters 14, 15 are subsequently de-boned using electromechanical de-boning machines. Meat cuts and/or bones are removed. The overhead conveyor line 21 indexes the quarters past eight or more workstations in a sop-start fashion. The conveyor line 21 minimises wasted operator movement in retrieving and removing beef quarters from their station while pacing workers to complete their tasks in a defined time period. <Figure 1> |
