DK200700426A - A method of monitoring the breaking of eggs, an egg receiving device for holding the contents of an egg, and an egg breaking apparatus comprising such an egg receiving device. - Google Patents
A method of monitoring the breaking of eggs, an egg receiving device for holding the contents of an egg, and an egg breaking apparatus comprising such an egg receiving device. Download PDFInfo
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- 210000002969 egg yolk Anatomy 0.000 claims 4
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- 102000002322 Egg Proteins Human genes 0.000 claims 3
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Claims (25)
1. A method of monitoring the breaking of eggs, where eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices by means of a feeder, each egg breaking device receiving one egg at a time, where the shell of each egg is broken by means of the respective egg breaking device and the contents of each egg are collected in an egg receiving device, each egg receiving device receiving the contents of only one egg in each process cycle, and where the remains held by each egg breaking device after the breaking of the eggshell are discharged to a waste receptacle and the contents of the egg receiving device are discharged into one or more product receptacles, characterized in that the presence of at least one of the conditions (a) egg is dropped, (b) eggshell is unbroken or (c) yolk membrane is broken is registered automatically, and that the presence of an abnormality in the egg-breaking is presented to an operator.
2. Method according to claim 1, characterized in that, for each process cycle, an egg received status is established for each of the egg breaking devices, said status being either actual reception of an egg from the feeder or no reception of an egg from the feeder, and that at least one property of each egg receiving device with possible contents is detected and compared to at least one expected value based on said egg received status.
3. Method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that at least one property of the remains discharged to the waste receptacle from each egg breaking device is detected and compared to at least one expected value.
4. Method according to any of claims lto 3, characterized in that the egg receiving device has a cup for collection of the albumen of each egg and a holder for retaining the yolk of each egg, and that at least one detection device is used for determining at least one property of the egg receiving device with possible contents.
5. Method according to claim 4, characterized in that said at least one property is detected by means of a photocell, a vision based system, an inductive sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor or a mechanical sensor.
6. Method according to claim 4 to 5, characterized in that a light source is caused to illuminate the egg receiving device.
7. Method according to claim 6, characterized in that the translucence of the cup with possible albumen is determined.
8. Method according to claim 7, characterized in that a light source illuminates the cup from a side opposite the detection device.
9. Method according to any of claims 5-8, characterized in that a digital camera is used in said vision based system.
10. Method according to any of claims 5-9, characterized in that one image showing possible contents of both the cup and the holder is used to determine whether content is present in the holder and whether content is present in the cup.
11. Method according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that, for each process cycle and for each of the egg breaking devices at least one property of the remains of each egg discharged to the waste receptacle is detected and compared to at least one expected value.
12. Method according to claim 11, characterized in that, for each process cycle, an egg received status is established for each of the egg breaking devices, said status being either actual reception of an egg from the feeder or no reception of an egg from the feeder, and that the at least one expected value is based on said egg received status.
13. Method according to any of claims 1 to 12, characterize d in that the presentation to the operator of the presence of an abnormality in the egg-breaking comprises information on the location of the egg breaking device causing the abnormality.
14. Method according to claim 13, characterized in that the information on the location is presented to the operator by stopping the egg breaking device causing the abnormality at a predetermined inspection position.
15. An egg receiving device for holding the contents of an egg and comprising a cup for receiving the albumen of the egg and a holder for retaining the yolk of the egg, characterized in that the cup comprises a translucent material.
16. An egg receiving device according to claim 15, c h a r a c -t e r i z e d in that the holder is made from a translucent material.
17. An egg receiving device according to claim 15 or 16, characterized in that the translucent material is a plastic, such as polyethylene, polyoxymethylene, polyvinylidenflourid or poly-propylen.
18. An egg receiving device according to any claims 15-17, characterized in that the translucent material is opaque, preferably with a white colour.
19. An egg receiving device according to any claims 15-18, characterized in that the cup and the holder are located on a common mounting bracket, which may be attached to a carrier by means of a single fastening device.
20. An egg breaking apparatus, comprising a plurality of egg breaking devices, each for holding and breaking single eggs, a feeder for feeding eggs individually to each egg breaking device, a plurality of egg receiving devices for receiving the contents of eggs broken by the egg breaking devices, each egg receiving device being designed to receive the contents of a single egg at a time, and each egg receiving device comprising a cup for receiving the albumen of the egg and a holder for receiving the yolk of the egg, a waste receptacle for receiving the eggshell and possible other remains, a number of product receptacles for receiving the contents of the egg receiving device, and at least one detection device, characterized in that the individual egg receiving device comprises a cup of translucent material according to claim 15, that a light source is arranged to illuminate the translucent cup from a side opposite the detection device and that the detection device is a vision based device capable of detecting at least the transparency of the cup and possible contents therein.
21. An apparatus according to claim 20, characterized in that it comprises at least one feed sensor establishing an egg received status for each egg breaking device during each process cycle, and an electronic evaluation unit connected to said at least one feed sensor and to said detection device, which electronic evaluation unit is adapted to record occurrences of an egg breaking device receiving an egg without delivering yolk to the holder and albumen to the cup of the egg receiving devices associated with the egg breaking device.
22. An apparatus according to claim 20, characterized in that it comprises an electronic evaluation unit having a memory with a number of storage locations, where at least one storage location is allocated to each of the egg receiving and egg breaking devices, and a movement sensor capable of detecting the movement of an egg breaking or receiving device from one position within the apparatus to another.
23. An apparatus according to claim 21 and 22, characterized in that one storage location is allocated to each of the egg receiving devices and two storage locations are allocated to each of the egg breaking devices, the value stored in the storage location of each egg receiving device corresponding to the number of eggs received by the device, where the yolk membrane was broken, the value stored in the first storage location of each egg breaking device corresponding to the number of eggs broken by the device, where the yolk membrane was broken, and the value stored in the second storage location of each egg breaking device corresponding to the number of eggs dropped or unbroken.
24. An apparatus according to any of claims 20-23, characterized in that the number of egg receiving devices is twice the number of egg breaking devices and that only two specific egg receiving devices receive contents of egg broken by means of one specific egg breaking device.
25. An apparatus according to claim 24 when depending on claim 20 or 21, characterized in that the electronic evaluation unit is capable of comparing the at least one property of the cups of the two egg receiving devices receiving the contents of egg broken by the same egg breaking device and possible contents therein.
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| DK200700426A DK200700426A (en) | 2007-03-20 | 2007-03-20 | A method of monitoring the breaking of eggs, an egg receiving device for holding the contents of an egg, and an egg breaking apparatus comprising such an egg receiving device. |
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