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US 4,380,849 AGranted
Apparatus for removing meat from poultry drumsticks
AssigneeOscar Mayer Foods Corporation
InventorsFrank L. Adkison, Jack L. Kress
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Abstract
An apparatus is provided for removing meat from poultry drumsticks by closing mechanical jaws onto the meat of a drumstick, mechanically grasping one end of the drumstick bone, and then removing the meat by driving the drumstick bone om a direction away from the meat while the meat is grasped by the mechanical jaws.
Claims20
An apparatus for removing meat from a poultry drumstick, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- support means;
- a jaw assembly mounted onto the support means and having a pivoting, tong-like action;
- jaw assembly operation means in operative interengagement with the jaw assembly for selectively closing the jaw assembly onto meat overlying a drumstick bone or opening the jaw assembly, said jaw assembly operation means includes a linkage member pivotally mounted to said jaw assembly;
- said linkage member being pivotally mounted at one end thereof to said jaw assembly, said linkage member being pivotally mounted at its other end to a movable carriage assembly, said carriage assembly including means for moving the carriage assembly either toward or away from said jaw assembly, whereby movement of said movable carriage assembly toward said jaw assembly closes said jaw assembly and movement of said movable carriage assembly away from said jaw assembly opens said jaw assembly;
- a grasping member for holding one end of the drumstick bone;
- and
- means for selectively driving the grasping member either toward or away from the jaw assembly to remove the meat from the drumstick bone.
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