Monitoring method egg breakage, a receiving device for holding the egg contents of an egg and an egg breaking apparatus comprising a receiving device such eggs.

摘要

An egg breaking apparatus comprising: a plurality of egg breaking devices (13), each for holding and breaking single eggs (4), a feeder (3) for feeding eggs individually (4) to each device to break eggs (13), a plurality of egg receiving (23) for receiving the contents of eggs (4) broken by the egg breaking devices (13), each device receiving the eggs (23) being designed to receive the contents of a single egg (4) time, and each device receiving the eggs (23) comprising a cup (232) for receiving the albumen of the egg (4) and a support (231) to receive egg yolk, a waste receptacle (15) for receiving the eggshell and possible other remains, a number of product receptacles (24, 25, 26, 27) to receive the content receiving device eggs ( 23), and at least one detection device n (7), wherein the receiving device individual eggs (23) comprises a cup (232) of translucent material, that a light source is installed to illuminate the translucent cup (232) from a side opposite the device detecting (7) and that the detection device (7) is a vision based device.