Abstract: A method for feeding eggs to an egg breaking apparatus and such an apparatus is provided. In the method eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices mounted on a egg breaking conveyor by a shell egg in-feed conveyor, each egg breaking device receiving one egg at a time. The shell egg in-feed conveyor is driven by a first drive and the egg breaking conveyor is driven by a second drive, and the position of the first drive and/or the position of the second drive is adjusted in response to changes in the speed of at least one of the shell egg in-feed conveyor and the egg breaking conveyor. The adjustment is preferably performed automatically by a control unit using input from encoders on one or more drive motors, which are preferably servo motors. Size and/or size variation of the eggs may also be taken into account.

Abstract: The invention relates to an egg breaking apparatus and a method of feeding eggs to an egg breaking apparatus, where eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices by means of a feed conveyor. Each egg breaking device receives one egg at a time and all egg breaking devices are mounted on a common drive conveyor, where the egg breaking devices are moved in relation to the feed conveyor in a first direction following a substantially vertical first axis at the area of the feed conveyor. The feed conveyor feeds eggs to the egg breaking devices along a substantially horizontal second axis. When near a position at the feed conveyor, the egg breaking devices are tilted about a third axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the first and second axes, in a second direction substantially opposite to said first direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for monitoring the breaking of eggs. The 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, whereupon the shell of each egg are 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. 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. The monitoring consists in that the presence of at least one of the conditions (a) the 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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of monitoring breaking of eggs by an egg breaking apparatus in a cyclic process, where eggs are broken using a plurality of egg breaking devices, each egg breaking device breaking one egg having shell and contents at a time and where the contents of each egg is collected in an egg receiving device, each egg receiving device receiving the contents of only one egg in each process cycle. An operator monitors the contents received in the egg receiving devices and identifies egg receiving devices containing abnormal contents using a pointing device. This identification is detected by a detection device and communicated to a reject mechanism, which causes the contents of the identified egg receiving device to be discharged into a rejected product receptacle. The detection device may be a remote sensor, an integrated part of the pointing device or a device located on each of the egg receiving devices.

Abstract: The invention relates to an egg breaking apparatus and a method of feeding eggs to an egg breaking apparatus, where eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices by means of a feed conveyor. Each egg breaking device receives one egg at a time and all egg breaking devices are mounted on a common drive conveyor, where the egg breaking devices are moved in relation to the feed conveyor in a first direction following a substantially vertical first axis at the area of the feed conveyor. The feed conveyor feeds eggs to the egg breaking devices along a substantially horizontal second axis. When near a position at the feed conveyor, the egg breaking devices are tilted about a third axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the first and second axes, in a second direction substantially opposite to said first direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for monitoring the breaking of eggs. The 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, whereupon the shell of each egg are 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. 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. The monitoring consists in that the presence of at least one of the conditions (a) the 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.