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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4667368 | Backbone inner guiding device for splitting butchery animals The device includes a rocker lever pivoted on a support and carrying at one end a first guiding surface for cooperating directly with the inner face of the backbone at at least one point and, at the other end, a pad pivoted on the rocking lever and having... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4507822 | Automatic machine for splitting butchery animals, notably pigs The invention relates to the butchery industry. The machine comprises notably: a vertical splitting carrier mobile along a first column, a mobile horizontal carrier on the splitting vertical carrier, a splitting blade carried by the horizontal carrier, a resil... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4451952 | Suspension device for a power-driven handtool The suspension device for a power-driven handtool such as a humane killer comprises a yoke having two arms pivotally mounted on two pivots whose common horizontal geometrical axis passes substantially through the center of gravity of the handtool unit. Th... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4350624 | Method for recovering meat proteins remaining attached to the bones after the boning operation The installation comprises substantially: a chopper for breaking up raw bones with meat still attached to them, an extraction tank containing an alcaline solution with a pH of the order of 10 to 12 for retaining the proteins, a precipitation tank for the ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4280248 | Compressed-air pistol of the humane killer type The pistol is so designed that the valve for controlling the forward stroke of the piston is applied directly against the open rear cylinder end which is surrounded by an annular chamber, the chamber being also open at the rear end and in communication wi... | 07/28/1981 |
| 4193170 | Drawing device for sliver In a drawing device for sliver comprising two endless moving elements having cooperating working runs between which the sliver passes, at least one of the elements is constituted by a plurality of bars extending between a pair of parallel carriers (e.g. c... | 03/18/1980 |
| 4137701 | Device for facilitating the doffing of full bobbins on fly-frames The doffing of full bobbins built on spools placed on the vertical spindles of fly-frames equipped with revolving flyers is performed by combining gripping means such as resilient clips carried by each flyer with retaining means such as an annular groove ... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4107821 | Drawing device for sliver In a drawing device for sliver comprising two endless moving elements having cooperating working runs between which the sliver passes, at least one of the elements is constituted by a plurality of bars extending between a pair of parallel carriers (e.g. c... | 08/22/1978 |
| 4054250 | Textile winding machine In a textile winding machine each of a pair of arms is connected at one end to a first wheel and supports a bobbin at the other end in a winding position with the bobbin resting against a driving roller. An endless band, such as a chain, extends around an... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4026097 | Winding-on flyer for a roving frame The body of the flyer provides two identical limbs and is formed as a single hollow piece and in that the roving guide is constituted by a tube housed inside the corresponding limb and extending on the one hand into the upper part of the hollow shaft and ... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4016627 | Needle bar securing means on chain gill machines A removable fixing system for the needle bars on chain gills, for supporting and driving the bars, in which each bar is pivotally connected, by its two ends on two chains, and has, at one of its ends, a bent extension the free end of which is engaged in a... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3994448 | Device for forming an initial bight of a roving around a bobbin in an automatic textile winding machine In an automatic textile winding machine comprising a driving cylinder on which rests a slubbing bobbin for being driven thereby, a device for automatically forming an initial bight of a roving around the slubbing bobbin at the commencement of winding comp... | 11/30/1976 |