. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . heywill also help to eliminate congestion and delay on thekilling floor when inexperienced or less efficient labor isemployed. By referring to the plan, Figure 28, the process ofcattle killing can easily be followed. The animals aredriven into the kno
. Packing house and cold storage construction; a general reference work on the planning, construction and equipment of modern American meat packing plants, with special reference to the requirements of the United States government, and a complete treatise on the design of cold storage plants, including refrigeration, insulation and cost data .. . heywill also help to eliminate congestion and delay on thekilling floor when inexperienced or less efficient labor isemployed. By referring to the plan, Figure 28, the process ofcattle killing can easily be followed. The animals aredriven into the knocking pens, which are built to hold twocattle in each pen. The knocker stuns the cattle and oper-ates the hoist, which raises the knocking pen gates andfloor. The carcasses are thereby rolled out on the killingfloor, where they are shackled and hoisted to the bleedingrail. This rail is placed 15 feet above the floor level andruns alongside of a conveyor, which extends the full lengthof the room. The man who does the sticking stands nearthe knocking pens so that the cattle are thoroughly bledwhen they are at the lower end of the rail. At this pointthe head is taken off and thrown on the inspection table at KILLING FLOORS 45 the other side of the rail. The conveyor now makes a turnand pulls the carcass to the drop-off rails in front of each. FIG. 28—BEEF AND SHEEP KILLING FLOOR. bed. From here they are lowered to the floor by a frictionhoist and pritched up for the floor work. The hide dropping, gutting and splitting is done on thedressing conveyor, in the rear of the beds. The hide is 46 KILLING FLOORS dropped before the carcass reaches the guttmg table. Thistable or bench is about 24 feet long and is placed on hydrau-lic jacks so that it can be easily and quickly raised and low-ered to suit the size of the carcasses which are last conveyor brings the finished carcass to the scalein front of the door leading to the cooler. All carcasseswhich are retained by the Gov
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