摘要 |
A method and apparatus for removing neck skins from poultry. Each bird is hung on a shackle (11) from an overhead conveyor (10), a load cell weights each bird as it passes through a weighing station, a computer receives a signal representing the weight and position of each bird. A cutting station (50) is positioned in the conveyor line and includes a displaceable cutting blade. The computer sends a signal to the cutting station to displace the cutting blade to a position across the path of the neck skins to remove the neck skins of a certain number of birds of a predetermined weight. |