Spinal cord removal tool with adjustable blades
AssigneeJarvis Products Corporation
InventorPeter Gwyther
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Abstract
A spinal cord removal tool for removing a spinal cord and spinal cord membrane from a carcass includes a spinning blade disk having multiple removal blades mounted around its perimeter, each removal blade having a forward facing cutting edge that can enter the spinal cord channel and side cutting edges that cooperate with side blades to chop the spinal cord membrane as it is brought into the tool. The side blades are adjustably mounted to move towards and away from the removal blades and compensate for changes in the width of the removal blades due to wear or sharpening. The side blade adjustment mechanism may include a self-adjusting floating mount for the side blades or a manually adjustable mount that can be set to any desired blade clearance for higher-speed and lower noise operation.
Claims21
A spinal cord removal tool for removing a spinal cord and spinal cord membrane from a carcass comprising:
- a motor;
- a housing;
- a blade disk mounted in the housing, the motor being connected to the blade disk to drive the blade disk in rotary motion;
- a plurality of spinal cord removal blades mounted on the blade disk, each removal blade having a front cutting edge, a left cutting edge and a right cutting edge;
- a left side blade mounted for motion towards and away from the left cutting edges of the spinal cord removal blades;
- a left side adjustment mechanism for adjusting the left side blade relative to the left cutting edges of the spinal cord removal blades;
- a right side blade mounted for motion towards and away from the right cutting edges of the spinal cord removal blades;
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- a right side adjustment mechanism for adjusting the right side blade relative to the right cutting edges of the spinal cord removal blades.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.