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US 3,936,908 AGranted
Hide pulling method and apparatus
AssigneeThe Cincinnati Butchers' Supply Company
InventorFrank M. Cook
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Abstract
The invention involves pulling the hide mechanically from beef carcasses, in a manner such as to avoid hide and carcass damage without resorting to electric stimulus, and without the need for trimming knife labor in removing the hide effectively and advantageously from the skull of the carcass.
Claims7
Apparatus for removing the hide from a meat carcass having the hide slitted lengthwise of the belly, the hide being partially detached from the carcass to provide side flaps disposed along opposite sides of the carcass, said apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor suspending the prepared carcass from at least one hind leg with the head and forelegs lowermost;
- a primary hide puller including means to grip the side flaps at opposite sides of the suspended carcass and forcibly pull the side flaps in a common direction toward and beyond the spine of the suspended carcass;
- and a secondary puller including means to grip the forelegs and forcibly pull said forelegs in a direction substantially opposite to the direction of pull applied to the side flaps by said primary hide puller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.