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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8087978 | Method and apparatus for removing skin and fat from meat parts An apparatus and method for removing skin and fat from meat parts, includes a toothroll assembly. The toothroll assembly includes a first section having an outer surface, and a second section having an outer surface. The first section is adapted to rotate at a first... | 01/03/2012 |
| 7695354 | Fish processing machine with alignment devices and methods for realigning fish during processing Fish processing machines and methods for realigning fish during processing are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a fish processing machine in accordance with the invention includes a fish processing unit for use with a processing machine having a fillet assembly ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7582007 | Open top meat skinning device A roller assembly for a meat skinning device having a frame, a drive shaft rotatably mounted to the frame and having a female groove, and an elongated roller having a male prong frictionally received within the female groove, a bearing housing secured to the drive s... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7244174 | Device for de-rinding and skinning a product to be treated The invention relates to a device for skinning and de-rinding a product to be treated such as pieces of meat or fish and similar products (2), said product to be treated being first skinned from one side by means of a first skinning unit (3). A combina... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7241213 | Open top meat skinning device A roller assembly for a meat skinning device having a frame, a drive shaft rotatably mounted to the frame and having a female groove, and an elongated roller having a male prong frictionally received within the female groove, a bearing housing secured to the drive s... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236849 | Safety system for power equipment Apparatus and method is disclosed for providing a safety system for power equipment comprising a machine having a lower tool, an upper tool, and a safety controller. The lower tool is electrically isolated from the reversible upper tool. A safety controller is coupl... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231856 | Apparatus and method for detecting dangerous conditions in power equipment A machine such as a saw, jointer, planer, etc. is disclosed. The machine has cutting tool, a direct drive mechanism configured to move the cutting tool, a detection system adapted to detect the occurrence of an unsafe condition between a person and the cutting tool,... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7211972 | Power tool with remote stop The present invention is directed to a power tool including a wireless remote stop for terminating the flow of electricity to an electric motor. The electric motor is configured for operating a working element assembly of a power tool, such as an arbor/circular saw ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7204748 | Poultry breast portion sizing apparatus An apparatus for producing portions severed from a poultry breast of controlled size and weight having a rotary mounted product holder including a generally cylindrical outer surface provided with at least one product cavity for receiving a first portion of a poultr... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198563 | Shoe tensioning linkage for meat skinner A skinning machine includes a frame, a linkage assembly mounted to the frame, and a skinning assembly mounted to the linkage assembly via lift arms. The linkage assembly raises and lowers the skinning assembly via the lift arms from an open to a closed position, whe... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198566 | Loin puller with two separate cutting blades Disclosed is a loin puller for trimming off the backfat of a loin that has been scribed from a belly. This loin puller has a frame on which is mounted a conveying system for engaging the loin and moving it towards a cutting zone. In this zone, a cutting tool is moun... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7188701 | Velocity compensation control for electric steering systems Disclosed herein is a method as well as a system for controlling an electric power steering system. The method includes: receiving a torque signal from a torque sensor responsive to a torque applied to a handwheel; obtaining a motor velocity signal, the motor veloci... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7172502 | Tool-less blade change shoe for a skinning machine A skinning machine having a skinning blade mounted between a clamp and a shoe. The shoe has a bore that extends therethrough and a cam arm mounted to a bottom surface. The clamp has a recess with an aperture disposed therethrough. A pin extends through the aperture ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169034 | Blade mounting device A blade mounting device for the mounting of blades, in particular, for skinning and stripping machines with a blade mount fixing (1), a blade support (3), a retaining strip (6) and a tensioning device (8) for holding the blade support and... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164587 | Integral heatsink grounding arrangement An electromagnetic (EM) shielding assembly shields an electronic component mounted on a circuit board. The assembly includes a shielding portion that is electrically conductive and can be mounted adjacent an electronic component that it is desired shield. The shield... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7152514 | Fiber chopper apparatus and method A chopper for chopping fibers or fiber strands having a back up roll and a blade roll containing blades that work against a peripheral surface of the back up roll and a method of using is disclosed. The chopper has a number of improved features for reducing the freq... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7128642 | Method and apparatus for removing fat and skin from meat parts An apparatus and method for removing skin and fat from meat parts, a tooth roll assembly attached to a frame and a trimming blade assembly attached to an adjustable frame where the position of the trimming blade assembly is adjusted in relation to the tooth roll ass... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7124872 | Safety device for industrial machines A safety device, particularly for industrial machines, such as for example bending presses provided with an upper tool that is driven in abutment toward a lower die, at least one blank, such as a metal plate, a bent plate or a box-like element, being interposable be... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7104878 | Method and apparatus for use in removal of internal bones in fore-end In the removal of internal bones in a fore-end of a split carcass the shank bone, the humerus bone and the shoulder blade are cut free by machine, so that subsequently they can easily be removed from the rest of the fore-end. A transport tool (27a) is ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096769 | Automatic top slice removal device An automatic top slice removal device includes a frame, a lower conveyor belt and an adjustably mounted upper conveyor belt extending generally parallel with and spaced from the lower conveyor belt. A meat product slicing device includes a blade interposed between t... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7090574 | Method and device for filleting killed and headless fish, the abdominal cavity of which is opened up Certain farmed and/or breeding fish such as tilapia are filleted after the fish have been beheaded, slaughtered and had their ventral cavity opened. Cuts are made in the dorsal region and on the ventral side in the caudal region for exposing the dorsal spokes and ve... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7090573 | Method and device for processing fillets of fish (conveyor belt fillet production) A method and apparatus for processing fish fillets includes subjecting fish fillets lying on a skin side to a brief pulling cut in the tail region and a splitting separation by a stationary separating edge which, when the fillets approach, enters in the region of th... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7081048 | Apparatus and a method for skinning fish A method for skinning a piece of fish using a supporting surface (1) for a piece of fish (13) and a knife (10) with an active portion (11) for separation of the skin (15) from the fish meat by a mutual movement of the supporting su... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7070493 | Skinner for poultry carcasses The invention relates to a device for processing poultry carcasses or parts thereof, comprising a conveyor having supports for retaining the carcasses or parts thereof, which conveyor is provided with means for leading the supports in a supply direction past at leas... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064502 | Power tool with remote stop The present invention is directed to a power tool including a wireless remote stop for terminating the flow of electricity to an electric motor. The electric motor is configured for operating a working element assembly of a power tool, such as an arbor/circular saw ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7052387 | Apparatus for portioning a piece of food A device and procedure for portioning a piece of food in portions with a predetermined weight or predetermined thickness. The device has a pivotable insertion drum (1) arranged in a rotatable manner around its axis with at least one oblong insertion chamber (... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052388 | Meat cutting system An automated meat cutting system and method is disclosed. The automated meat cutting method comprises securing a carcass portion in a position, imaging the carcass portion to determine cutting paths and cutting the carcass portion along the thus determined cutting p... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7036445 | Watercraft steer-by-wire system A watercraft steer-by-wire control system for watercraft comprising: a direction control system including a rudder position sensor; a helm control system including at least one of; a helm position sensor to produce and transmit a helm position signal and an optional... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7012519 | Emergency shutoff system for power machinery, wireless monitoring systems, and emergency shutoff methods An emergency shutoff system for power machinery includes a control device housing a transmitter circuit, a receiver circuit, and a processor. A wireless device is carried by a user and configured to transmit information to the control device to cause the processor t... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007595 | Device and method for computerized product slicing A device and method for computerized product slicing are disclosed. The device includes a blade, an openable product holder capable of engaging/retaining therein the product and of communication with a product sensor, the product sensor which detects presence of pro... | 03/07/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6962525 | Method and apparatus for meat cut classification of fat thickness for downstream trimming An apparatus and method for classification of a meat cut based on the thickness of the fat layer. The meat classification system comprises a split dual-belt conveyor system and a probe/trolley mechanism assembly where the probe is operable to penetrate the meat cut ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6958008 | Device for skinning poultry parts This invention relates to a device for removing the skin (6) from opposite sides of bird trunk (3), the device comprising a conveyor (4) for moving at least one bird trunk from a loading position (5) towards a skinning device, the skinnin... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6699116 | Automated poultry thigh skinning and deboning apparatus An automated skinning and deboning apparatus for processing poultry thigh portions to remove the skin and bone from the meat portion in a single pass includes a support frame and housing having a feed inlet and a product discharge outlet. The feed inlet i... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6659856 | Automatic skin removal and fat trimming device for meat products II An automatic skin removal and fat trimming device includes an entry conveyor belt and an upper pressing cylinder device which cooperate to move the meat product into contact with a rotating ridged cylinder which in turn forces the meat product into contac... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6572466 | Method for the skinning of tuna and other species for the canning industry and device for its implementation The method involves turning the fish (4) around its own axis while a cutting blade is longitudinally displaced along the body of the fish and contacts the latter in such a way that the blade follows a helicoidal trajectory in relation to the skin of the f... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6558242 | Method and apparatus for removing fat from meat cuts A method and apparatus for removing a portion of fat from meat cuts involves placing a meat cut on a longitudinal conveyor, pressing sensor probes into the meat cut to measure the relative thickness of fat and the location of lean in the meat, and then wi... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6458025 | Removable skinning blade assembly for meat skinning machine A skinning blade assembly with a blade, clamp, and shoe where the blade is frictionally received in a recess formed in the bottom surface of the clamp, the clamp having a slot that extends from the top of the clamp through the bottom of the clamp such tha... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6358134 | Skinner blade A cutting blade made of surgical stainless steel with a very small angled back hone, a small grind angle, a small angled front hone, and a reduced size included angle, which has an increased hardness that results in a longer lasting narrow edge geometry b... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6357346 | Meat skinning machine A meat skinning machine has a frame with an elongated skinning blade mounted thereon. The skinning blade has an elongated cutting edge. An elongated gripper roll is rotatably mounted on the frame adjacent the blade for pulling the meat product to be skinn... | 03/19/2002 |
