| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6179702 |
Rotary shackle with position lock |
January 30, 2001 |
| The rotary bird hanger 30 includes a turning gear 38 having on its upper surface a lock collar 42, with lock notches 50 formed at intervals about the lock collar 42. The non-rotatable hanger support 32 includes a cam lock 62 movably supported by the hanger support 32 and a lock pin 82 |
| 6027404 |
Poultry thigh deboner with movable stripper |
February 22, 2000 |
| Poultry thighs (13) are placed on carrier trays (22) of a tray conveyor (14) and move on an endless loop conveyor first through a rectilinear loading run (24), then through a curved deboning run (26), and then through a lower return run (25). The curved deboning run extends about the |
| 6027403 |
Crop remover assembly |
February 22, 2000 |
| Device for removing at least the crop of slaughtered poultry, comprising means for holding a carcass of the poultry, a crop probe assembly with a crop probe holder and an elongated crop probe, which is provided with crop engaging means in an end portion, such as a number of teeth/sprocke |
| 6024636 |
Expandable poultry deboner having a pre-cut installation |
February 15, 2000 |
| Poultry drumsticks (13) are placed on carrier trays (22) of a tray conveyor (14) and move on an endless loop conveyor first through a rectilinear loading run (24), then through a precutting run, then a curved deboning run (26), and then through a lower return run (25). The pre-cutting ru |
| 5976004 |
Partially deboned poultry product and process |
November 2, 1999 |
| Poultry parts which have elongated bones, such as poultry thighs (10), legs (40), or segments of wings (not shown) are moved with respect to a stripper element, such as an apertured disk (24 or 54) or stripper blades (79 and 80), so as to partially strip the meat (12, 42) from the bone ( |
| 5951393 |
Poultry breast filleting mandrel |
September 14, 1999 |
| A poultry breast filleting mandrel 10 for carrying an eviscerated poultry carcass along a processing path through a breast filleting process in which the meat of the poultry carcass is removed from the skeleton of the carcass, includes a base 12 for mounting to a conveyor, a shroud 14 |
| 5947811 |
Apparatus for cutting up carcasses of poultry |
September 7, 1999 |
| The poultry cut-up apparatus receives vertically halved poultry carcasses in an inverted attitude transported along an overhead conveyor. Vertically spaced, horizontally oriented pairs of circular cutting blades (21, 22) cut the carcasses into segments as the carcasses are maintained in |
| 5865672 |
Deboning device and deboning apparatus for partially deboning meat |
February 2, 1999 |
| Deboning device for partially deboning meat surrounding a bone, which deboning device is provided with means for holding partially to be deboned meat, a diaphragm and a pin with a cam, in which the diaphragm and the pin with the cam are placed on either side of the means for holding part |
| 5833527 |
Poultry breast filleting apparatus |
November 10, 1998 |
| Previously eviscerated poultry carcasses are moved in series along a conveyor (26), mounted upon a series of mandrels (33). As the poultry carcasses are moved along their processing path and are mounted on their mandrels (33), the carcasses are automatically engaged by a clamp tool ( |
| 5782685 |
Expandable poultry thigh deboner |
July 21, 1998 |
| Poultry thighs (13) are placed on carrier trays (22) of a tray conveyor (14) and move on an endless loop conveyor first through a rectilinear loading run (24), then through a curved deboning run (26), and then through a lower return run (25). The curved deboning run extends about the |
| 5766063 |
Eviscerator |
June 16, 1998 |
| Device for removing the viscera from the carcass of a slaughtered bird, comprising means for holding the carcass with its vent upward, means for gripping the gullet, said gripping means comprising at least two jaw members which are movable towards each other to fixedly and positively |
| 5453045 |
System for transferring birds from one conveyor system to another with intermediate accumulator |
September 26, 1995 |
| A system for transferring birds (77) from a weigh line (11) to a cut-up line (12) through an intermediate accumulator. The system comprises a continuously rotating buffer wheel (15) having a plurality of bird carriers (17) slidably mounted on its periphery and being carried on buffer |
| 5429549 |
Sequential wing remover |
July 4, 1995 |
| A method and apparatus for removing the wings of birds as the birds are conveyed along a poultry processing line suspended by their legs. As the birds are carried through the wing remover (10), the wings on one side of the birds are engaged by a first wing guide means (40), which tends t |
| 5366406 |
Apparatus and method for conveying a bird along a poultry processing line |
November 22, 1994 |
| A grading shackle (10) for suspending birds from the overhead conveyor system of an automated poultry processing plant. The grading shackle (10) has a tiltable support frame (15) and a bird support bracket (20) pivotally attached to the support frame (15). The tiltable support frame |
| 5340351 |
Poultry conveyor line transfer system |
August 23, 1994 |
| A bird transfer carrousel is provided for transferring birds between two conveyor lines wherein the shackles of one conveyor line are spaced at a different increment than the shackles of the other conveyor line. The bird transfer carrousel comprises a rotatable, cylindrical turret (22) |
| 4736492 |
Apparatus for boning animal legs, like thighs of slaughtered chickens |
April 12, 1988 |
| Prepared parts of edible fowl, such as thighs of slaughtered chickens, are deboned by loading the parts in a plurality of pans (23) of a pan conveyor (22) with the lengths of the bones approximately parallel to one another extending across the direction of movement of the conveyor and mo |
