Bizarre Patents
Hands free towel carrying system
A hands free towel carrying system for coupling a towel to a user to prevent loss, theft or contamination.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7959499 | Machine for lung removal in poultry and method and use thereof Provided is poultry processing equipment and more particularly, an improved evisceration device and subassemblies thereof for removing organs from a membrane-covered socket in the body cavity of a poultry carcass, such as the lungs. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7828635 | Tool, device, and method for gutting fish opened at the stomach cavity The invention concerns a tool for gutting fish (12) which have been opened at the stomach cavity (11), the tool (13) being designed as a suction element (23) for extraction of the entrails by suction, which is distinguished in that the su... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7367877 | Big game field dressing tool and method A tool and method of using are disclosed for field dressing big game. The tool has a tip sized for insertion into the anus of the animal and a set of barbs extending a radial distance beyond the tip. The tip and the barbs are mounted to a shank and handle. Inserting... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7264543 | Device for cutting free the colon of a slaughter animal A device for cutting free the colon of a slaughter animal has a cylindrical cutting knife and a guiding arbor with a suction channel. The device has two components, one of which is a tool and the other a robot connecting plate. The robot connecting plate has a conne... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7220177 | Fish stunning apparatus A fish stunning apparatus comprising a fish stunning device (100) including a striker (400); said striker (400) including a cylinder and a piston (443), said piston (443) movable between a retracted position and an extended positio... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7179163 | Fish cleaning apparatus and methods Apparatus and associated methods for cleaning residual visceral matter from the belly cavity of a gutted fish. The cleaning apparatus includes a scraper attached at the mouth of a suction tube by a hinge. An actuator pivots the scraper about the hinge between an ext... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7033266 | Device and method for controlling the beginning of a tool operation in fish treatment machine In a device and method for controlling the commencement of operation of at least one tool in a fish processing machine, a guide element penetrates the interior of the fish so as to perform alignment of the fish before the tool begins its application. A monitoring de... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7021085 | Concave and convex-patterned multi-colored fiber pile fabric The multi-colored fiber pile fabric of the present invention has at least one cut pile layer comprising a plurality of cut piles extending from at least one surface side of a knit or weave structure formed from organic fiber yarns, the cut pile layer comprises non-c... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7004830 | Method and device for processing poultry In a method and device for carrying out at least one processing operation on a slaughtered bird which is hung by its legs, the bird is conveyed on a hook of a conveyor towards and into the processing area of a processing device in order for the at least one processi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6726556 | Method and device for separating abdominal fat from abdominal skin of poultry In a method for separating abdominal fat from abdominal skin of a slaughtered bird, a supporting surface is positioned against at least a part of that side of the abdominal skin which is remote from the abdominal fat. At least a section of the abdominal fat is scrap... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6213864 | Water injection system for poultry crop remover Water is conserved and poultry raised for human consumption is cleaned by a viscera-removing machine that incorporates a unique nozzle member positioned adjacent a crop-removing tool. The close positioning of the nozzle to the crop-removing tool insures t... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6165062 | Method and apparatus for venting/opening, eviscerating/cropping, inspecting and cleaning of poultry. A poultry processing machine is provided which automatically vents and opens the poultry, eviscerates the poultry, displays the poultry for inspection, and either provides a normal or radical clean out procedure to the poultry. When the poultry is being p... | 12/26/2000 |
| 5980376 | Method and apparatus for gutting fish The invention pertains to an apparatus for gutting fish which serves for preventing flaws that reduce the quality e.g., colon and blood residues or damage to the walls of the abdominal cavity, and for attaining a highly aesthetic product. The invention pr... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5873774 | Poultry lung removal apparatus A poultry processing machine has a suction tube for use in extracting an organ from a membrane-covered socket in the body cavity of a poultry carcass. The tube is connectable with a source of vacuum pressure and provided with an intake opening through whi... | 02/23/1999 |
| 5755617 | Method and device for separating at least one piece of visceral tissue from at least one organ connected thereto In a method and device for separating at least one piece of visceral tissue from at least one organ connected thereto, in which the at least one piece of visceral tissue to be separated is smaller than said at least one organ, the cluster of visceral tiss... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5735735 | Method for the automatic gutting of fish and an apparatus for implementing the method In a method for automatically gutting fish of the catfish species, the belly cavity is opened around the anal orifice either before or after opening the gills by severing the gullet and opening the blood stream, and the contents of the belly cavity are re... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5628680 | Water jet fish cleaning apparatus for kirimi processor The present invention allows oval fish processing machinery designed to process pollock or salmon, such as the Baader 182, to be adapted to process flat fish such as sole to produce kirimi. One embodiment of the invention includes a generally rectangular ... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5222905 | Apparatus for decropping poultry An apparatus for decropping poultry including a probe for use with an automatic poultry cropping machine of the type adapted for advancing the probe through the belly cavity of the bird and into the neck and for rotating the probe. The probe includes an e... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5199922 | Cutting device A cutting device for arranging a cut around the anus of a slaughtered animal, which cutting device comprises: a positioning rod for insertion into the anus of a slaughtered animal; a rotatably drivable cylindrical beaker-shaped knife which is placed coaxially ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5178578 | Poultry crop remover A probe for removing the crop and other viscera in poultry. The probe is cylindrical and is rounded at its distal end. Intermediate its ends is a grasping comb section consisting of a plurality of axially disposed channels. The channels each have walls th... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5167568 | Device and installation for selectively removing organs from a slaughtered animal A device for removing one or more organs or parts thereof from a slaughtered animal, in particular a bird, comprising: an organ guide device with an open organ feed end to be inserted temporarily into the slaughtered animal; an organ conveyance device for... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5135431 | Device and method for removing abdominal fat from a slaughtered bird A device for removing abdominal fat from a slaughtered bird, comprising a scraper element which is movable through an abdominal opening between the legs, and a device for discharging the fat scraped off by the scraper element, further comprising an elonga... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5122090 | Decropping device for poultry A device for the removal of the gullet, crop, windpipe and adhering parts from the neck part of slaughtered poultry, comprising a rotary driven mandrel which is conveyed from the belly cavity into and through the neck opening of the poultry, wherein the m... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5112271 | Method and apparatus for gutting fish An apparatus for carrying out a method for gutting fish is provided, which comprises in combination a conveyor including a number of segments at given intervals in a direction substantially perpendicular with respect to its moving direction and operating ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5098334 | Method for the mechanical gutting of fish A method for mechanical gutting of fish and device for execution of the method are disclosed, whereby the inner organs are removed via the fish's oral cavity (mouth) without opening the fish's abdomen. The inner organs are extracted with the aid of a vacu... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5085613 | Apparatus for gaining single organs from the belly cavity of fish Single organs, such as the hard-roe sacks or soft-roe are removed from fish by placing decapitated fish in a coneyor having troughs that are advanced transversely to the longitudinal axis of the fish. The fish are conveyed with their belly leading and lyi... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5026318 | Method and apparatus for gutting non-decapitated fish In a method and an apparatus for gutting non-decapitated fish, in particular breeding fish such as trout, it is characteristic for the processing that the fish are conveyed with their tails leading in longitudinally aligned conveyor troughs, and the treat... | 06/25/1991 |
| 4993116 | Method and apparatus for gutting fish An apparatus for carrying out a method for gutting fish is provided, which comprises in combination a conveyor including a number of segments at given intervals in a direction substantially perpendicular with respect to its moving direction and operating ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4976010 | Method for fish cleaning The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for the improved and more rapid cleaning of, or the removal of the viscera or the so-called "guts" of dead fish without the need for the cutting open of the fish in order to get into or have acce... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4918787 | Poultry lung extractor and neck breaker Previously eviscerated birds are moved on an overhead conveyor in series to the lung extractor and neck breaker, with each bird moving into a poultry processing module (31). The lung extractor tube (48) moves downwardly to engage the lungs and the viscera... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4910829 | Poultry cropper and neck breaker There is disclosed a combination crop remover and neck breaker for use as part of a continuous processing station adjacent a conventional poultry processing line wherein partially processed poultry is given a two step processing treatment. The station inc... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4899421 | Method and apparatus for removing fecal matter in poultry An apparatus for removing the fecal matter from the rectal cavity of slaughtered poultry in a poultry processing line, prior to evisceration, including a hollow probe for insertion into and extraction form the rectal cavity, the movements thereof being co... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4691412 | Bivalve mollusk shucker A mollusk shucker suitable for use in shucking bivalve mollusks such as scallops, comprises a conveyor which is continuously driven through a loading station, a shell opening station, a first half-shell removal station, an eviscerating station, an edible ... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4677709 | Poultry delunger apparatus Poultry delunging apparatus comprising a support, a manifold stationarily affixed to the support, a vacuum source adapted for connection to the manifold, a delunging unit rotatably mounted on either or both of the manifold or the support and having a surf... | 07/07/1987 |
| 4546520 | Device for the mechanical processing of fish and introducing the same into cans The invention concerns a device for processing fish and introducing the same into cans. It is characterized in that the fish are placed in alternating alignment in threes or fours in troughs of a conveyor which comprises one middle trough element flanked ... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4291436 | Apparatus for extracting the entrails and/or cleaning the belly cavity of fish An apparatus for extracting the entrails and/or cleaning the belly cavity of decapitated fish comprises an endless conveyor belt advancing the fish, a head belt associated to the conveyor belt and supporting the heads, and a decapitating knife extending b... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4270242 | Apparatus for automatic evisceration of killed poultry An apparatus for automatic evisceration of killed poultry is disclosed and comprising a substantially horizontal supporting plate adapted to receive an animal lying on its back in a predetermined position in relation to the supporting plate, by providing ... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4208764 | Poultry eviscerating method A method for automatic evisceration of killed poultry, particularly broilers, whereby the animal is clamped with the belly up at its tail head to a substantially horizontal supporting plate, and eviscerated in this position. An apparatus for carrying out ... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4184229 | Device for processing poultry backs A device for processing picked and eviscerated poultry backs, each having kidneys, fatty portions on opposite sides and a tail, the device including a first conveyor for advancing the backs successively longitudinally along a prismatic slide; a pair of cu... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4153972 | Vacuum poultry eviscerating apparatus A lung removal apparatus for poultry in which an access opening to their body cavity has been formed at their vent wherein the apparatus includes a conveyor from which shackle members are flexibly suspended to engage and support the poultry by their hocks... | 05/15/1979 |
