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US 4,811,456 AGranted
Apparatus for separating bone and flesh of the legs of poultry or part thereof
AssigneeMachinefabriek Meyn B.V.
InventorJohannes v. d. Heuvel
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Abstract
An apparatus for separating bone and flesh of the legs of poultry or part thereof is provided, comprising a stripper with an opening for passing through the bone and with an edge portion surrounding said opening for holding up the flesh. The stripper preferably comprises a clamping frame stretchingly supporting therein a membrane with a central circular opening for letting through the bone.
Claims17
Apparatus for separating flesh from the bones of the legs of poultry, such as thighs and drumsticks, comprising:
- (a) a moving conveyor which moves in stepwise increments, for conveying said legs in a direction substantially transversely of their longitudinal axis;
- (b) a stripper, disposed alongside said conveyor, having a frame supporting an elastic funnel-shaped membrane, which has a rounded opening, having dimensions to permit the leg bones to pass therethrough but which do not permit the flesh of said legs to pass therethrough;
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- (c) means for moving individual legs along their longitudinal axes transversely of said conveyor into said stripper, continuing said movement to move said leg bones through the rounded opening in said membrane while stripping the flesh from said bones.
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Apparatus for separating the flesh from the bone of the legs of poultry, comprising:
- (a) a conveyor having a series of compartments for conveying said legs, each of which contains a single leg;
- (b) means to drive said conveyor intermittently;
- (c) stripping means disposed alongside said conveyor comprising a funnel-shaped elastic membrane having a rounded opening large enough to permit passage of the bones of said legs but small enough to prevent the passage of the flesh of said legs therethrough;
- (d) means to move said stripping means into a stripping position adjacent said conveyor;
- (e) means to coordinate the movement of said conveyor with the movement of said stripper so that said stripper is in said stripping position adjacent a compartment having a leg when said conveyor is stationary;
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- (f) means for moving said legs transversely of said conveyor, along their longitudinal axes, when said conveyor is stationary and said stripper is in the stripping position, to push the bones of said legs through said opening and to strip said flesh from said bones.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.