| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5993308 |
Machine for eviscerating and displaying poultry for inspection |
November 30, 1999 |
| An apparatus for eviscerating poultry includes plural groups of cars driven around a monorail track by variable pitch augers which produce combined continuous and intermittent car movement. The groups of cars are brought to rest momentarily in front of machinery for performing various |
| 5569069 |
Apparatus for cutting wings from poultry |
October 29, 1996 |
| An apparatus for cutting wings from boned whole poultry breasts includes a pair of spaced chain loops supporting laterally aligned pairs of fixtures which hold the wings to support the breasts and serve as anvils for annular knife blades which are driven outward from a central position t |
| 5562532 |
Chicken tender cutting machine |
October 8, 1996 |
| A chicken tender cutting machine includes two relatively moveable carriages supported on the frame above a processing line. The first device includes a knife for making an incision in the tenderloin between the wishbone and the rib cage of the bird to free the upper end of the tenderloin |
| 5484333 |
Loader for breast processor |
January 16, 1996 |
| Poultry carcasses, having open abdominal cavities, are suspended from a foot shackle conveyor. As each carcass approaches a knife for severing the upper and lower portions of the carcass, the top portion is transferred onto an approaching tine which enters the cavity, dipping downward as |
| 5466185 |
Removing breast meat from poultry |
November 14, 1995 |
| Breast meat is stripped from a poultry carcass, after the shoulder joints have been separated and preliminary cuts have been made in the shoulder area with a cutter designed to leave the wings attached to the breast meat, by pulling the wings and breast meat attached thereto downward on |
| 5425668 |
Poultry slaughtering machine |
June 20, 1995 |
| A poultry slaughtering machine includes a shackle conveyor for carrying a series of birds, suspended by their feet in a predetermined orientation with their breast facing to one side, along a first path, and a head capturing device disposed generally below the shackle conveyor and offset |
| 5374214 |
Breast processor |
December 20, 1994 |
| A chicken breast processor has an endless conveyor on which are mounted a series of special fixtures for supporting a bird carcass during automatic butchering. Each fixture has a pair of spaced bars bearing respective upper and lower arms. Each of the arms has abeveled upper surface, so |
| 5106333 |
Poultry picker |
April 21, 1992 |
| A poultry picker comprises four independently movable banks of rotary picker heads. Each bank is supported at its ends by brackets, which are independently, vertically movable on respective uprights. Each bank can be moved toward or away from its upright by one adjustment mechanism, and |
| 4937918 |
Inline breast deboner |
July 3, 1990 |
| A method and apparatus for producing boneless chicken breasts maximizes the amount of meat retained by the breast when the wing is removed from the breast, by permitting the wing to rotate with respect to the breast as the final wing cut is made while the breast and wing are maintained i |
| 4815166 |
Method and apparatus for processing turkey gizzards |
March 28, 1989 |
| A method and apparatus for processing gizzards uses a gizzard splitter, a gizzard defatter and a gizzard peeler. The splitter includes upper and lower conveyors which define pockets for receiving an individual poultry gizzard. The pockets retain the gizzard as it is pushed over a rotatin |
