Disclosed are an animal fat grading device and an animal fat grading method. The device includes a frame, a barrel, a temperature control device, a collecting part, a compacting part and a collecting and stirring assembly; the frame is fixedly connected with the barrel, the barrel is connected with the temperature control device, the collecting part is located at a bottom of the barrel, the compacting part is located inside the barrel, and a top of the frame is telescopically connected with the collecting and stirring assembly; the collecting and stirring assembly includes a connecting plate, a stirring part and a scraper; the top of the connecting plate is telescopically connected with the top of the frame, and the bottom of the connecting plate is fixedly connected with the stirring part and the scraper; the stirring part is located in a center of the scraper, and the scraper corresponds to the compacting part. The application achieves an objective of grading fats with different melting points.

CT-scanners for industrial use e.g. at abattoirs for scanning animal carcasses or cuttings hereof should be able to perform continuous scanning for an extended period of time and should be hygienic designed and be easy to clean. The CT scanner has an elongated tube forming a through-going opening for continuous conveying objects to be scanned through the CT-scanner and may have elongated detector pixel geometry leading to a fixed anisotropic spatial resolution. The CT-scanner is especially for scanning meat pieces to determine the quality such as the distribution of muscles and fat within the meat pieces.

A system and method for measuring a shoulder joint position of a carcass part of slaughtered poultry are disclosed. The system includes a position measurement device, having a mechanical contact member which is adapted to engage at least one shoulder joint during a measurement of the shoulder joint position, and a product carrier which is adapted to support the carcass part during movement of the product carrier along the conveying path past the position measurement device. The position of the product carrier during the measurement of the shoulder joint position is such that the carcass part is arranged relative to the position measurement device with the left shoulder joint and right shoulder joint one behind the other as seen in the transport direction so as to allow the mechanical contact member to engage a shoulder joint bone structure of a shoulder joint.

The disclosure relates to an annular knife with a sensor for determining the cutting depth and a method for determining the cutting depth. When trimming meat such as at abattoirs a customer may require a fat layer of a given thickness, however the natural fat layer of animals vat between different carcasses and within the individual carcass/meat piece. By determining the fat layer thickness and variation hereof of a meat piece before trimming the meat piece an operator may be presented with such information and be able to remove tit in different areas to obtain the required thickness. The trimming may be performed with a system calculating in real unit how much fat is to be removed when some fat has already been removed by an operator.

The invention provides a device for weighing slaughter products. The device comprises conveying means for conveying the slaughter products, the conveying means comprising a frame, two pulley means which are connected to the frame a fixed distance apart, being rotatable about two respective first vertical axes of rotation, an endless flexible conveying element which is passed over the two pulley means, which conveying element extends along a rectilinear weighing path between the two pulley means, a guide extending along a conveying path, hooks for the slaughter products, which hooks are connected to the conveying element at regular intervals and which are each provided with a guide elements for guiding cooperation with the guide. The device further comprises weighing means for weighing slaughter products that are present within the weighing section and reducing means for reducing tensile stress in the conveying element insofar as it extends in the weighing section, said reducing means comprising transmission means that are operative between the two pulley means. The transmission means comprise a gear transmission with at least two meshing gears which are rotatable about respective second vertical axes of rotation, wherein the second axis of rotation of one of the at least two gears is in line with a first vertical axis of rotation, and wherein the second axis of rotation of another of the at least two gears is in line with the other first vertical axis of rotation.

A freshness/degree of maturation evaluating device for evaluating freshness and/or degree of maturation of food animal, freshness/degree of maturation evaluating device provided with: temperature parameter calculation unit that calculates temperature parameter regarding storage time and temperature in arbitrary area inside food animal, parameter based on temperature in arbitrary area inside food animal, determined by storage time and unsteady heat conduction equation; rate constant parameter calculation unit that calculates rate constant parameter regarding sequential decomposition reactions of various ATP-associated compounds contained infood animal, parameter being set based on rate constants in food animal determined by using relation based on storage time of food animal and measured values of ATP-associated compound concentrations; ATP-associated compound concentration calculation unit that calculates ATP-associated compound concentrations by sequential decomposition reaction calculation model using temperature parameter and rate constant parameter; and freshness/degree of maturation evaluation unit that computes K value and/or FI value from ATP-associated compound concentrations.

An apparatus for weighing poultry in a conveyor line can include carriers for the poultry, linked to each other by a driving chain. The conveyor line can include at least a curved track section and a weighing track section, wherein a weighing station is located along the weighing track section. A chain tension control mechanism can include a rotatable wheel having its circumference following the curved track section and pass the weighing track section, which rotatable wheel can support a series of engaging units that engage the chain and/or the carriers in the curved track section to tension the chain and disengage the chain and/or the carriers in the weighing track section to release tension in the chain.

Disclosed are an animal fat grading device using superheated steam and a method. The device comprises a bracket, a material container, a steam heating assembly, an oil leakage assembly, a pressing part, an oil pumping assembly, a switch structure and a controller, where an upper part of the bracket is fixedly connected with the material container, a top side wall and a bottom side wall of the material container are provided with the steam heating assembly; an inside is slidably connected with the oil leakage assembly; a top of the oil leakage assembly is fixedly connected with the pressing part; a top surface of the oil leakage assembly is fixedly connected with the oil pumping assembly, a bottom of the material container is communicated with an oil discharging pipe, the switch structure is arranged on the oil discharging pipe, and a temperature sensor is arranged in the material container.