FISH-BEHEADING AND CLEANING APPARATUS

摘要

The stroke required for reciprocable hold-downs on a beheading table is reduced by providing auxiliary rails for elevating smaller fish, and the fish are moved along the feed table by fabricated angle flight links. A tail-receiver lifted by a cam wheel rotating about a horizontal axis transfers the fish from the feed table to tail-impaling pins of the fish-cleaning bull wheel. In a common drive for the bull wheel and the beheading table an automatic satellite gear train throw-out will disengage a holding lever to disconnect the drive for the means feeding the cleaning mechanism if such feeding means becomes overloaded. A parallel-link control maintains the belly-fin cutter in proper angular relationship to the bull wheel and a more direct and simplified drive arrangement is provided for the rotary cleaning scrapers and brushes alongside the bull wheel.