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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7001261 | Automated classifier and meat cut fat trimming method and apparatus An apparatus and method for a meat cut classification and fat trimming for sensing the thickness of a layer of fat of a cut of meat and the various contours thereof as it travels along a conveyance and providing the fat thickness or classification information to a d... | 02/21/2006 |
| 4815166 | Method and apparatus for processing turkey gizzards A method and apparatus for processing gizzards uses a gizzard splitter, a gizzard defatter and a gizzard peeler. The splitter includes upper and lower conveyors which define pockets for receiving an individual poultry gizzard. The pockets retain the gizza... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4691410 | Gizzard harvester A gizzard harvester is disclosed having a support receiving a gizzard and holding the same against rotation as the gizzard is lowered onto a rotating cone spindle which both washes foreign matter from the gizzard and removes its lining by rotating the lin... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4608732 | Gizzard harvesting process A method and apparatus for processing poultry gizzards at substantially high line speeds. A plurality of gizzards preferably with the stomach and intestines attached are directed in a random arrangement into a feeding and aligning station. Feed roll means... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4590643 | High yield gizzard harvesting apparatus A method and apparatus for processing poultry gizzards employing in-feed rollers and retarding means to initially orient the gizzards with appendage organs dangling below. The appendage organs are severed whereupon the gizzards are secured in the initial ... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4570294 | Apparatus for separating the gizzards from the entrails of poultry and for further processing the gizzards A gizzard processing apparatus comprising a feed section with means for detaching and removing the entrails attached to the gizzards, and a conveying section for advancing the gizzards from the feed section to a peeling section in which the lining is remo... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4570296 | Gizzard harvesting apparatus An apparatus for processing poultry gizzards at substantially high line speeds. A plurality of gizzards preferably with the stomach and intestines attached are directed in a random arrangement into a feeding and aligning station. Feed roll means at that s... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4538325 | Gizzard harvesting machine A system for processing a gizzard with the viscera attached where the viscera is conveyed along a poultry processing line by conveying means including adjusting means for adjusting the viscera to a predetermined length while the viscera is conveyed by the... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4524491 | Gizzard harvesting apparatus and process A method and apparatus for processing poultry gizzards at substantially high line speeds. A plurality of gizzards preferably with the stomach and intestines attached are directed in a random arrangement into a feeding and aligning station. Feed roll means... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4395795 | Poultry gizzard processing system Poultry gizzards with gut and stomach attached thereto are moved in sequence along a processing path, first along a pair of helically threaded conveyor rolls which supports the gizzards and permits the stomach and gut to hang freely below the gizzards bet... | 08/02/1983 |
| 4382313 | Gizzard harvesting machine A system for processing a gizzard with the viscera attached where the viscera is conveyed along a poultry processing line by conveying means including adjusting means for adjusting the viscera to a predetermined length while the viscera is conveyed by the... | 05/10/1983 |
| 4325165 | Gizzard splitter The gizzard with crop and other viscera attached thereto are retrieved from a cavity of a bird on an overhead conveyor system, and with viscera hanging from the gizzard, the gizzard is moved over a cutter whose elements define an open ended cutting path w... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4249284 | Poultry gizzard processing system Poultry gizzards with entrails such as gut and stomach attached are supported at first on a rotary drum with a helical tread and a rotary support bar whereupon the gizzards are urged along a path and are oriented so that the entrails hang therebelow as th... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4203178 | Gizzard processing system Poultry gizzards with gut and stomachs attached thereto are moved in sequence along a path, first with the gut and stomach suspended freely below the gizzards. As the gizzards continuing to move along the path, the gut and stomach are cut from the gizzard... | 05/20/1980 |
| 4183117 | Apparatus for splitting, cleaning and skinning poultry gizzards An apparatus for splitting, cleaning and skinning poultry gizzards having a transport chain which takes the gizzards past a rotating knife for cutting open the gizzards, a spreading bar for folding open the split gizzards and a rotating brush for removing... | 01/15/1980 |
| 4073040 | Machine for process of poultry gizzards The poultry gizzard with the gut and stomach attached descends along a chute having a slot through which the gut hangs from the gizzard. Below the lower end of the chute are a pair of rolls having the tops rotating toward each other. These rolls have inte... | 02/14/1978 |
