US 12,213,492 B2
Machine and method for cleaning poultry offal
Mauro Tiecher, Chapecó (BR)
Appl. No. 18/009,038
Filed by Mauro Tiecher, Chapecó (BR)
PCT Filed Jan. 1, 2021, PCT No. PCT/BR2021/050001
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/040764, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 017280 8 (BR), filed on Aug. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0284923 A1, Aug. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. A22C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 21/0061 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A machine for cleaning poultry offal, comprising:
(1) an inlet gutter and an outlet gutter for giblets,
(2) a first pre-cleaning roller and a second pre-cleaning roller for the giblets, the pre-cleaning rollers arranged under a guiding assembly that directs the giblets to a gripping and transporting conveyor chain for transporting the giblets from the pre-cleaning rollers to a pressing assembly, a cutting element and a washing assembly for the giblets;
(3) a gutter, directing the giblets to a cleaning system transversely positioned in the machine, wherein the cleaning system comprising:
(a) a guiding station of giblets set against a cleaning assembly, both moved by a drive assembly,
(b) a first directing flow of giblets operated to move the giblets back and forth across a guiding region defined by a positioning of cleaning and guiding elements of the cleaning assembly, wherein
the first directing flow is provided by movement of the cleaning and guiding elements relative to one other and the first directing flow cooperates with a second directing flow of giblets, provided by movement of a plurality of pressing elements installed along and around a rotating shaft of the guiding station, and wherein
the second directing flow is operated to move the giblets through the gutter from a giblets supply region to a region of the outlet gutter.