Fast, precise and reliable egg inoculation expedite vaccines to market.
RAME-HART’s egg inoculation systems are designed to help you enhance your production capacity, thanks to automated capabilities that increase processing speed and minimize product contamination.
Our systems operate fast and reliably, giving you an invaluable head start in bringing your vaccines to market.
- Production rate: (variable) 30,000 to 33,000 eggs per hour.
- Highest degree of bio-security
- Produced according to highest standards with focus on pharmaceutical cleanability
- Designed to minimize human egg handling to ensure no bioburden
Tray Infeed Station
Trays are typically introduced into the inoculator manually. As an option infeed conveyor, trolley unloader and de-stacker can be added to automate this process.
Inoculation Station
Perforates the eggshells and injects a measured amount of virus-laden seed material into 36 or 42 eggs simultaneously. The inoculation head design permits doses as small as 0.1 ml to be delivered to each egg with an accuracy of +/- 0.5%.
Lift Station
Eggs are lifted from the tray and positioned under a guide plate, allowing each egg to be inoculated precisely to a pre-determined depth.
Unloading Station
After inoculation the trays are typically exiting the inoculator manually. As an option, exit conveyor, trolley loader and stacker can be added to automate this process.
Controls
Primary machine controls are contained within the main control box located on the machine. The control box is fabricated from stainless steel and has gasketed access doors. All motors and gearboxes are designed for pharmaceutical wash-down. Customers choose between the Allen-Bradley, Siemens or Omron operator interface terminal with a touch screen control system.
Punch and Needle Sanitation Station
Punch and needle are submerged in the sanitising fluid. Prior to raising the punch and needle, a small amount of sanitising fluid is drawn by vacuum between the punch and needle and then dried.
UV Disinfection
A UV Disinfecting Station can be utilized and will disinfect a complete tray of eggs simultaneously prior to entering the inoculation station.

Automatic Harvesting
10,000 - 20,000 eggs/hour
Advanced egg harvesting technologies boost yields.
Trolley Loader & Unloader
The Trolley Unloader uses a spatula design to automatically transfer trays from the trolley to a conveyor.
Automatic Tray Washing System
Up to 1,000 trays/hour
The Automatic Tray Washer washes, sanitizes, final rinses, and dries trays at a rapid pace
Semi-Automatic Egg Harvester
This system is a section of the Automatic Harvester machine and works with smaller production facilities. For small- to medium-size production environments.