Overhead Chain Conveyor

The Overhead Chain Conveyor is an indispensable core transmission equipment in modern livestock and poultry slaughtering and processing lines. Utilizing overhead space tracks, it efficiently and continuously transports livestock and poultry carcasses to various workstations, serving as the foundation for automation and large-scale production in slaughterhouses.

Working Principle & Core Mechanism

This equipment uses direct traction or pusher dog propulsion of the traction components to drive the load-carrying hanging fixtures in continuous operation along single-track or double-track overhead space rails. Through this high-altitude suspension transmission mode, the equipment smoothly completes the cross-regional transfer of livestock and poultry carcasses. This not only saves valuable floor space but also allows workers to perform slaughtering, inspection, and cutting operations at the most ergonomic heights.

Why is an Overhead Chain Conveyor Essential for Slaughterhouses?

Maximum Space Utilization: The overhead rail design frees up floor space, making the workshop layout cleaner and facilitating floor cleaning and equipment placement.
Ensuring Food Hygiene and Safety: The carcasses remain suspended in the air throughout the process, never touching the ground, thereby completely avoiding cross-contamination from the floor. Combined with stainless steel construction, it complies with the strictest HACCP food hygiene standards.
Improving Production Line Efficiency: Continuous and smooth operation ensures precise rhythm matching between various workstations (such as bleeding, scalding, de-feathering, evisceration, and pre-chilling), preventing material accumulation or flow interruptions.
Reducing Manual Labor Intensity: It replaces traditional manual handling, significantly reducing workers’ physical exertion and increasing overall production capacity.

Application Scenarios

Widely used in the slaughtering and processing workshops of poultry (chickens, ducks, geese) and livestock (pigs, cattle, sheep). We support customized single-track (for poultry or small livestock) and double-track (for heavy cattle and pigs) solutions. Based on the client’s capacity requirements and spatial layout, we provide tailor-made track routing and hanging fixture configurations.