A22C 17/004
Devices for deboning meat
Official title: {Devices for deboning meat (deboning poultry A22C21/0069; deboning operations on carcasses A22B5/0035)}
A22C17/004 (Devices for deboning meat) appears on 152 US grants and 111 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A22C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 111
- Assignees
- 78
- Inventors
- 308
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus and method for separating meat from bone14 Jul 2026US 12,677,840 B2Poss Design Limited
- Poultry deboning device and method5 May 2026US 12,616,216 B2Blexley Holdings LLC
- Spine processing device9 Dec 2025US 12,490,748 B2Marel Red Meat B.V.
- Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method18 Nov 2025US 12,471,602 B2Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Carcass processing machine and assemblies7 Oct 2025US 12,433,298 B2Robotic Technologies Limited
- Device for clamping bone-in meat9 Apr 2026US 2026/0096566 A1Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Roller assembly for loin puller machine12 Mar 2026US 2026/0068895 A1Hall Fabrication, Inc.
- Meat-attached matter removal device and meat-attached matter removal method5 Feb 2026US 2026/0033501 A1Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Round blade for slicing, slicing device, and slicing method for workpiece23 Oct 2025US 2025/0326147 A1Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.
- Spine processing device18 Sep 2025US 2025/0287961 A1Marel Red Meat B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Boning and defatting rotary knife54US 6,615,494 B22003
- Method and device for deboning leg pieces of slaughtered animals53US 5,462,477 AStork Protecon B.V. · 1995
- Motor driven knife including depth limiting device51US 6,694,649 B2Bettcher Industries, Inc. · 2004
- Apparatus and method for removing ribs49US 5,902,177 ACentre de Recherche Industrielle du Quebec · 1999
- Device for deboning meat pieces with an articulated bone assembly47US 5,713,787 AStork Protecon-Langen B.V. · 1998