Deboning system of meat

A deboning system for deboning a picnic shoulder part of a meat block of a dressed carcass halved along the backbone while the meat block is suspended, the system comprising:

• a charging station for loading the meat block;
• a plurality of deboning stations for deboning the meat block;
• a bone discharging station;
• and
• a group of transfer means comprising a plurality of transfer paths including fixed transfer paths, movable transfer paths, and an intermittent feeding means for pushing the meat block through said stations,
• wherein the meat block is suspended at each of said stations,
• wherein the movable transfer paths are provided in the deboning stations, said movable paths being movable to move the suspended meat block at each of the deboning stations on each of the movable transfer paths to a respective deboning section provided in each of the deboning stations to perform respective deboning operation,
• wherein said intermittent feeding means intermittently pushes the meat block suspended from a preceding station to a succeeding station, and
• wherein said intermittent feeding means includes pushers for pushing the meat block to be transferred from the preceding station to the succeeding station, and an actuator for allowing the pushers to be reciprocated along the transfer paths, each of said pushers including a pushing member for pushing the meat block, and a pushing member control mechanism by which the position of the pushing member is determined when pushing the meat block and the pushing member is released from a determined position when the pusher is returned with the meat block left at the transferred position.

A deboning system for deboning a picnic shoulder part of a meat block of a dressed carcass halved along the backbone while the meat block is suspended, the system comprising:

• a charging station for loading the meat block;
• a plurality of deboning stations for deboning the meat block;
• a bone discharging station;
• and
• a group of transfer means comprising a plurality of transfer paths including fixed transfer paths, movable transfer paths, and an intermittent feeding means for pushing the meat block through said stations,
• wherein the meat block is suspended at each of said stations,
• wherein the movable transfer paths are provided in the deboning stations, said movable paths being movable to move the suspended meat block at each of the deboning stations on each of the movable transfer paths to a respective deboning section provided in each of the deboning stations to perform respective deboning operation,
• wherein said intermittent feeding means intermittently pushes the meat block suspended from a preceding station to a succeeding station, and
• wherein each of said fixed and movable transfer paths is composed of a pair of spaced-apart transfer rails such that a bone part of the meat block is insertable between a space between the transfer rails and the bone part is movable along the transfer rails from the preceding station to the succeeding station intermittently with the intermittent feeding means.