Mobile Meat Processing System And Related Methods And Devices
AssigneeWild Idea Buffalo Co. LLC.
InventorDan O'Brien
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a mobile meat processing system having a mobile unit, an animal processing room, a refrigeration room, a track system disposed from a ceiling of the mobile unit, and an animal intake door coupled to a wall of the animal processing room. The mobile meat processing system can be used, in certain embodiments, to process bison. Also disclosed are various methods of processing animals into meat using the mobile meat processing system.
Claims20
A mobile meat processing system comprising:
- (a) a mobile unit;
- (b) an animal processing room disposed within the mobile unit, the animal processing room comprising:
- (i) a spreader bar retractably coupled to a spreader bar winch attached to a ceiling of the processing room;
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- (ii) at least one processing rail attached to the ceiling of the processing room;
- (c) a refrigeration room disposed within the mobile unit, the refrigeration room comprising at least two refrigeration rails attached to a ceiling of the refrigeration room, the at least two refrigeration rails being operably coupled to the at least one processing rail such that a carcass can be transported from the at least one processing rail to one of the at least two refrigeration rails;
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- (d) an animal intake door hingedly coupled along a bottom edge of the door to a wall of the animal processing room, wherein the intake door is configured to move between a closed position and an open position in which the intake door extends downward away from an outer wall of the mobile unit, whereby the intake door forms a ramp in the open position.
A mobile meat processing system comprising:
- (a) a mobile unit;
- (b) an animal processing room disposed within the mobile unit, the animal processing room comprising a spreader bar retractably coupled to a spreader bar winch attached to a ceiling of the processing room;
- (c) a refrigeration room disposed within the mobile unit adjacent to the animal processing room;
- (d) a refrigeration door disposed between the animal processing room and the refrigeration room;
- (e) a track system disposed from a ceiling of the mobile unit, the track system comprising:
- (i) at least one transport rail extending from the animal processing room into the refrigeration room through the refrigeration door;
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- (ii) at least two refrigeration rails disposed within the refrigeration room, the at least two refrigeration rails operably coupled to the at least one transport rail such that a carcass can be transported from the at least one transport rail to one of the at least two refrigeration rails;
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- (f) an animal intake door hingedly coupled along a bottom edge of the door to a wall of the animal processing room, wherein the intake door is configured to move between a closed position and an open position in which the intake door extends downward away from an outer wall of the mobile unit, whereby the intake door forms a ramp in the open position.
A method of processing meat in proximity with a living environment of target animals, the method comprising:
- stunning a target animal in the living environment of the target animal;
- hauling the target animal to a mobile harvesting unit with a stunning truck;
- urging the target animal into a processing room in the mobile harvesting unit;
- processing the target animal in the processing room into a harvested carcass;
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- transporting the harvested carcass from the processing room to a refrigeration room via a track system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.