| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5607349 |
Carcass cleaning system |
March 4, 1997 |
| As a carcass moves down the conveyor in a meat processing plant, it may carry contaminants from an earlier processing step. The carcass surface is sterilized, and the contaminants are removed by bringing a cleaning wand to the carcass surface. The wand has a vacuum mouth, an internal hot |
| 5584757 |
Animal head processing apparatus with hog snout puller |
December 17, 1996 |
| The hog's head, in the upside-down position, is moved jaw first across a table where a jaw removal bar engages under the lower jaw. The snout has been previously loosened by a slash on each side behind the snout. The loosened snout gravitates through a snout slot in the table. Below the |
| 5533928 |
Animal head processing apparatus |
July 9, 1996 |
| The apparatus includes two stations in the processing of an animal head in a meat processing line. The first station is for templing where the station has a cup for receiving the jaw and a spindle to engage the skull. Both the spindle and cup are rotatable and are moved toward each other |
| 5503594 |
Carccass cleaning system |
April 2, 1996 |
| As a carcass moves down the conveyor in a meat processing plant, it may carry contaminants from an earlier processing step. The surface is sterilized, and the contaminants are removed by simultaneous delivery of steam to the surface and vacuuming away of the steam. A sterilizing hot |
| 5083971 |
Beef carcass head-separating tool |
January 28, 1992 |
| The head-separating tool is a pair of pivoted blades, each having two sections. The section closest to the pivot comprises a wedge on each blade positioned so that the wedges come together in nearly point-to-point contact to engage in the beef neck's Atlas joint to separate the joint. |
| 4627167 |
Leg shear |
December 9, 1986 |
| An improved leg shear for use in slaughterhouses includes a movable blade supported in opposed tracks throughout its travel, such movable blade having flat "stop" portions at opposite ends of its cutting edge which, at the end of the travel of the movable blade in its cutting direction, |
| 4446599 |
Stunning gun with improved control valve |
May 8, 1984 |
| A stunning gun having a relatively massive cylindrical piston with annular recesses, such piston forming a slip fit with its containing cylinder and riding on an air bearing, is provided with a springless valving system which relies on differential air pressures to keep the valves closed |
| 4446598 |
Stunning gun |
May 8, 1984 |
| By increasing the mass and reducing the surface friction of the piston driving a penetrating bolt in an animal stunning gun and providing that bolt with a conically-shaped recess at its tip, maximum penetrating force with minimum gun complexity is achieved. The control valve releases the |
