Device for cleaving of carcasses of slaughtered animals

Claim 1

In a device for cleaving of carcasses of slaughtered animals, especially pig carcasses, by chopping, cleaving strokes with a sword like tool which parts the carcass, after the belly having been cut open in its longitudinal direction and the entrails having been removed, in two symmetrically equal halves, by which the backbone of the carcass is cleaved in the longitudinal direction, which tool is fixed to and protrudes from one end of the housing which comprises power transferring means which applies chopping movements to the tool and which thereby is moved downwardly along a vertical post, the carcass being supported by a stand which keeps the carcass in vertical position during the cleaving operation, the improvement comprising: the housing carrying a pair of free rotating casters which are arranged for contacting each side of the inner side of the backbone of the carcass tO follow same, and a servo controller coupled to said casters to bring the tool to move along the middle plane of the backbone which coincides with the distorted parting plane by turning said cutting tool about a horizontal axis which substantially coincides with its edge.