A22B 5/0052
Severing the head or the jaw of a carcass, slaughterhouse operations on
Official title: {Severing the head or the jaw of a carcass, slaughterhouse operations on animal heads}
A22B5/0052 (Severing the head or the jaw of a carcass, slaughterhouse operations on) appears on 27 US grants and 7 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22B- Granted patents
- 27
- Published applications
- 7
- Assignees
- 21
- Inventors
- 49
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Brain and spinal cord removal device and related methods5 Aug 2025US 12,376,598 B2R Kooima Consulting, LLC
- Device, work station and method for cutting the head off a slaughtered animal's carcass10 Oct 2017US 9,781,939 B2Humboldt B.V.
- Livestock head splitting apparatus and operating method of same8 Apr 2014US 8,690,649 B2
- Method and apparatus for processing a neck bone31 Jul 2012US 8,231,443 B1Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Device to facilitate hog head removal10 Aug 2010US 7,771,257 B1Momence Packing Co.
- Animal carcass apparatus and method for processing beef with the apparatus11 Sep 2025US 2025/0280839 A1NSC Beef Processing, LLC
- Brain and spinal cord removal device and related methods19 Oct 2023US 2023/0329252 A1R Kooima Consulting, LLC
- Device, Work Station and Method for Cutting the Head Off a Slaughtered Animal's Carcass18 May 2017US 2017/0135355 A1Humboldt B.V.
- Method and apparatus for processing a neck bone16 Aug 2012US 2012/0208442 A1Tyson Foods, Inc.
- Livestock Head Splitting Apparatus and Operating Method of Same28 Jul 2011US 2011/0183593 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Beef carcass head-separating tool19US 5,083,971 AKentmaster Mfg. Co., Inc. · 1992
- Process and apparatus for recovering meat from carcase sections in particular severed animal heads11US 4,918,788 A1990
- Hog head removal apparatus7US 3,990,126 A1976
- Automatic animal processing7US 5,195,923 AAustralian Meat & Live-Stock Research & Development Corp. · 1993
- Machine for opening a severed bovine or ovine head6US 4,052,769 A1977