METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WEIGHING SUSPENDED OBJECTS

摘要

There is described an apparatus (7) for weighing poultry carcasses when it is moving along a path (22) where it is transferred betwee a first transport section (12) and a second transport section (13) in a plant for processing the poultry carcasses. In order ot obtain the necessary mutual distance, the apparatus comprises rotating plates (14, 15) with brackets (18) in which the poultry carcasses are suspended, and which are arranged displaceable in radial direction in the peripheral direction due to asymmetrical positioning about shafts (16, 17). At the asymmetrical placing, the brackets (18) will have lesser spacing, e.g. (6"), at the contact with the first transport section, and a greater spacing, e.g. (12"), at a position (10) where the animal carcasses are given over to weighing devices (10) in a rotating weighing wheel (9). At the position (21), the poultry carcasses are agains transferred to the asymmetrical rotating wheel (15) whereby they may be give over to the second transport section with the same mutual spacing, or with a different spacing, e.g. (8"). With the apparatus it is thus possible to perform in-line weighing along the path (21) for transfer between the first and second sections (12, 13).