Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry
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Application No.: US15474208Application Date: 2017-03-30
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Publication No.: US10244768B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Aloysius Christianus Maria Van Steijn , Hans Peter Hoste , Daniël Derksen
- Applicant: Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Oostzaan
- Assignee: Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
- Current Assignee: Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Oostzaan
- Agency: Dority & Manning, P.A.
- Priority: NL2016584 20160411
- Main IPC: G01N33/12
- IPC: G01N33/12 ; A22B5/00 ; A22B3/00 ; G01N21/3577 ; G01N21/359 ; A22C21/00

Abstract:
Method and apparatus for processing slaughtered poultry that is conveyed in a slaughter line of a slaughter house, in order to establish at the start of said slaughter line whether the poultry was alive or dead on arrival at the slaughter house. Such can include the detection of a body parameter of the slaughtered poultry when the poultry is suspended by the legs in the slaughter line after stunning said poultry, and wherein an absorption spectrum of blood of the slaughtered poultry is determined.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170290348A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SLAUGHTERED POULTRY Public/Granted day:2017-10-12
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