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Abstract

Water is conserved and poultry raised for human consumption is cleaned by a viscera-removing machine that incorporates a unique nozzle member positioned adjacent a crop-removing tool. The close positioning of the nozzle to the crop-removing tool insures that contaminates are washed out of the internal cavity of the bird immediately upon crop removal. This prevents contaminates from being absorbed into tissue surrounding the internal cavity. The nozzle is mounted in longitudinal alignment with the crop-removing tool at the lowermost or leading end of a spiral rod that rotates about its axis of symmetry and reciprocates up and down as previously slaughtered poultry is delivered to a crop-removing and washing station. Each downward motion of the spiral rod causes the tool and nozzle to enter the vent of a bird and to exit at the neck opening. A brush and a chlorinated water spray then clean the tool and nozzle so that they are clean when they pass through the bird a second time during the upstroke of the spiral rod. Another spray of chlorinated water cleans the tool and nozzle when they have been fully retracted prior to their entry into the next bird. The nozzle produces two cone-shaped sprays that extend in opposite directions to enhance the cleaning action.

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