Title: Double-rail conveyor design

Abstract: A conveyor system for slaughtering animals comprising a pair of parallel rails disposed to be higher than the leg length of the animal to be slaughtered and located between parallel stationary side walls used to prevent the animal from rolling sideways. On each of the rails flexible conveyor belts are provided. In operation, the animal is placed upright on the pair of rails with its legs straddling the rails. The belts move the animal in the upright position to a slaughtering station.

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Inventors: Giger, Jr., Walter (Wethersfield, CT, US)
Westervelt, Rudy G. (Newfield, NY, US)

Application Number: 618464
Filing Date: 1975-10-01
Publication_date: 1976-11-16
Assignee: Council of Livestock Protection, Inc. (New York, NY)
Primary Class(es): 452/53 198/820, 452/177
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

712579	Nov, 1902	Nicholson et al.	17/1.
2513877	Jul, 1950	Kahn et al.	17/44.
2747726	May, 1956	Robins	198/201.
2751065	Jun, 1956	Thomson	198/201.
2912715	Nov, 1959	Moss	17/1.

Other Refs: 116,189

Dec, 1969	DK

Primary Examiner: Mancene, Louis G.
Assistant Examiner: Hamilton, James D.
Attorney: Kojima; Moonray