| 摘要 |
<p>An apparatus for removing the breast from the eviscerated carcass of a chicken or other bird having an abdominal opening and a neck opening cut therein. The apparatus has a conveyer for advancing the chicken carcasses hanging by the legs thereof in a position with the breast facing forwards and a trough-like guide channel member arranged below the conveyer for supporting and guiding the breast of the carcasses in a substantially horizontal position. A mandrel extends above the guide channel member extending, on the one hand, past the rear end thereof and having, on the other hand, a forward end portion freely extending in the direction facing the advancing carcasses whereby this forward mandrel end is adapted to enter the body cavity of each carcass through the abdominal opening and to leave this cavity through the neck opening of the carcass. Guide means are secured to the lower side of the mandrel extending rearwardly and downwardly past the rear end of the channel member for pressing the chest of each carcass downwardly from the inside thereof as the latter is pulled forwardly on the mandrel. A pair of rotating cutting discs are arranged on both sides of the guide means closely to the mandrel for cutting and removing the breast from each carcass.</p> |
