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Abstract

A device for withdrawing blood from slaughter animals transported on a conveyor serially past a sticking station has a debleeding carousel (1) disposed at the sticking station and consisting of a body (2), a lower frame member (3) and an upper member frame (4), which frame members are synchronously rotatable on a vertical shaft (5) of the body, a number of collecting vessels (6) mounted on the lower frame member around the vertical shaft, a number of hollow knives (7) corresponding to the number of collecting vessels and suspendible around the vertical shaft each in a holder (9) on the upper frame member, and a hose (8) extending between each hollow knife and the associated collecting vessel for conducting blood from the hollow knife to the collecting vessel. The debleeding carousel is rotatable in such steps that the holders are displaced between a number of stopping positions around the vertical shaft, the distance between the stopping positions being equal to the distance between the holders. A sensor is fixedly mounted on the body opposite one of the stopping positions and adapted to sense the displacement of a hollow knife in a holder located in this stopping position, in order upon such displacement to initiate rotation of the carousel one step.

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