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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8047901 | Dehider with governor and strengthened blade A dehider includes a pneumatic motor driving a pair of disk blades in opposed cutting oscillations and a governor that controls the speed of the motor. Governor balls, acting as centrifugal weights, spin with the motor and push against an inclined flange on a valve ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7963829 | Dehider with governor and strengthened blade A dehider includes a pneumatic motor driving a pair of disk blades in opposed cutting oscillations and a governor that controls the speed of the motor. Governor balls, acting as centrifugal weights, spin with the motor and push against an inclined flange on a valve ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7722448 | Dehider with governor and strengthened blade A dehider includes a pneumatic motor driving a pair of disk blades in opposed cutting oscillations and a governor that controls the speed of the motor. Governor balls, acting as centrifugal weights, spin with the motor and push against an inclined flange on a valve ... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7670212 | Method of trimming portion of chicken paw metatarsal pad using power operated rotary knife A method for trimming an undesirable portion of a metatarsal pad of a chicken paw using a power operated rotary knife. The steps of the method include: a) providing a power operated rotary knife including an annular knife blade rotatable about a central axis and def... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7340840 | Blade housing for low friction rotary knife A power operated knife comprises a blade supporting structure supporting an annular blade for rotation about a central axis. The blade and blade supporting structure are engagable along bearing contact locations that are spaced apart in a direction parallel to the a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7326107 | Dedagging implement and rotor thereof A dedagging implement including a body (2), a rotor (4) supported on the body (2) for rotation about an axis and having radially outwardly projecting lobes (6) for removing dag from a carcass, a liquid supply means located on the body ( | 02/05/2008 |
| 7290383 | Trimmer blade A trimmer blade assembly comprising a blade within a housing is provided. The housing includes a wall for propelling cut vegetation away from the blade assembly. The blade assembly may also include a ridge on the housing for further propulsion of cut vegetation away... | 11/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7163453 | Dehider with dual counterbalance drive system A counterbalanced handheld dehider includes a pair of cutting disks driven in opposed cutting oscillations by a motor through an eccentric shaft turned by the motor. Two pushrods, one for each cutting disk, are connected between the eccentric shaft and respective cu... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7107887 | Rotary knife having vacuum attachment A rotary knife having a ring blade that defines a closed loop cutting surface for cutting material which the ring blade contacts during rotation. Materials cut using the blade such as meat cut from a carcass or trimmed from a piece of meat are suctioned away from th... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7000325 | Low friction rotary knife A power operated knife comprises a blade supporting structure supporting an annular blade for rotation about a central axis. The blade and blade supporting structure are engagable along bearing contact locations that are spaced apart in a direction parallel to the a... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6938348 | Tool device for rotary knives A tool device for rotary knives of the type that comprises a handle associated with a tool supporting assembly and an actuation for the rotary actuation of the tool with respect to the tool supporting assembly, the tool comprising a substantially tubular coupling bo... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6769184 | Low friction rotary knife A power operated knife including a blade supporting structure supporting an annular blade for rotation about a central axis. The blade and blade supporting structure are engagable along bearing contact locations that are spaced apart in a direction parallel to the a... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6751872 | Power operated rotary knife A rotary knife comprising, an annular blade having a central axis, a blade supporting head assembly supporting the blade for rotation about the axis, a manually grippable handle assembly connected to the head assembly, and a flex shaft drive transmission for driving... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6623348 | Method and apparatus for slaughtering and processing animals A method and apparatus are disclosed for processing non-homogeneous bodies. In exemplary embodiments, the present invention may be employed for aseptically slaughtering and processing animals for food, food products, chemicals, or hides. The methods and a... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6604288 | Rotary knife A rotary knife having a handle having a head section, a blade housing that comprises a split, ring-like member supported by the head section and defining a circumferentially extending groove, an annular blade supported in the blade housing groove for rota... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6394889 | Method and apparatus for aseptically removing animal hides A method and apparatus are disclosed for aseptically separating and removing the hide of an animal from its carcass wherein the hide is separated from the carcass prior to marking of the hide using at least one cutting implement inserted between the hide ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6089967 | De-rinding tool for pork The present invention relates to a de-rinding tool for pork, with a knife part and a driven roller as well as with a stripper. According to the invention a fixed stripper as well as a movable stripper are provided, each of these being assigned an output g... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6045442 | Non-rotating, heavy duty game hoist A heavy-duty game hoist for suspending large game, such as deer, or other animals for processing in a stable, non-rotating manner. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a hoist configured to be affixed to a pole, tree, or the like... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5813904 | Method and apparatus for skinning frozen fish Disclosed is an improved method and apparatus for removing tough, inedible skin and underlying fat from a frozen fish such as tuna, marlin, shark, and swordfish. The apparatus includes a high speed, contoured rotary cutter disposed in a housing with a tai... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5551156 | Revolving blade skinning device A revolving blade skinning device is provided with a pair of housing shells, a drive motor mounted within the housing shells, a blade support mounted to the housing shells, a blade mounted on the blade support for rotation relative to the housing shells, ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5445561 | Revolving blade skinning device and revolving blade thereof A revolving blade skinning device and blade is described, in which a revolving blade is rotatably arranged between two covers, and wherein the revolving blade is embodied such that cutting edge areas with constant cutting edge radii alternate with notches... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5441445 | De-hiding tool A de-hiding tool includes a handle section with a long blade cover, a pair of counter-rotating and oscillating cutting disks mounted face-to-face and driven by eccentrically mounted drive arms operated by a self-contained air motor, a short blade cover mo... | 08/15/1995 |
| 5326310 | De-rinding device for pork The invention relates to a de-rinding device for pork having a de-rinding knife (7) at one free end and, at a distance from same corresponding to the rind thickness, a contact surface. As a relative movement is carried out between a meat area to be de-rin... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5122092 | Power skinning knife with removable drive mechanism and high efficiency pneumatic motor A power skinning knife with a drive mechanism that may be easily removed for cleaning and a high efficiency pneumatic motor. The main drive gear is located on the same side of the pinion gear as the drive mechanism cover plate permitting removal of the dr... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5087222 | Method and system for dressing cattle and the like A method and system for dressing cattle in which, after kill, the carcass is suspended in a generally horizontal position by at least one foreleg and one hind leg, with the legs uppermost, and transported while so suspended along a dressing line. In such ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 4993112 | Carcass fat trimmer A hand-held, power-driven trimming device, especially useful in trimming excess carcass fat, includes a cylindrical housing having a hollow interior, a rotary-driven cutter blade assembly with multiple helical cutting blades mounted for rotation in the ho... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4901400 | De-hiding tool A de-hiding tool for use in slaughter houses in which a spring biases the reciprocating cutting blades into intimate facial contact to prevent debris from entering the driving mechanism, but achieves long life and low maintenance by interposing a low-fric... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4631780 | Hand skinner device A hand skinner device for removing strips of skin from animal carcasses comprises an elongate handle including an air motor and having a housing mounted at one end thereof. The housing has a skinning blade supported thereon and a revolvable tooth roll ass... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4451953 | Hand held skinning device A hand held power driven skinning device includes a housing having a handle connected thereto and having a blade assembly mounted thereon. A driven tooth roll assembly is provided with a shaft that is journaled on the housing. A clean-out bar assembly is ... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4433453 | Shoulder skinning device A shoulder skinning apparatus includes a skinning device comprised of a housing having a revolvable toothed roller mounted therein and a blade mounted thereon in close proximity to the toothed roller. The skinning device is suspended from a suspension dev... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4368560 | Arrangement for removing skin of slaughtered animals An arrangement for removing skin of slaughtered animals has a housing substantially forming a handle, two cutting disks having a central plane corresponding to a central plane of the housing, a drive and transmission, a separating wall formed of one piece... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4215451 | Dehider A dehider having a novel housing and blade gear assembly and a novel bearing and blade grease system. The novel housing and blade gear assembly permits the dehider's head to be easily disassembled and reassembled for blade changing or sharpening purposes ... | 08/05/1980 |
| 4186461 | Hand supported skinning device A hand supported skinning device for removing the skin from animal carcasses includes a housing having a handle attached thereto. A stationary blade is mounted on the housing closely adjacent a driven revolvable feeder roll which grips and pulls the anima... | 02/05/1980 |
| 4118830 | Device for skinning animals and fowl A small hand-held tubular device, utilizes gas under pressure in a replaceable cartridge carried in the device, to be controllably fed to a hollow needle for skinning purposes. The interior of the tubular body of the device is sealed at the end opposite t... | 10/10/1978 |
| 4071923 | Hand-held meat skinning device A hand-held meat skinning device comprising a housing containing an air driven motor positioned therein which is in communication with a source of air under pressure. A pivotal lever is provided on the housing for actuation of the air motor. A guard ring ... | 02/07/1978 |
| 4063332 | Fish-skinning tool A hand tool for skinning fish. The tool has plural laminar blades mounted generally longitudinally in a cylindrical blade mandrel. The mandrel is demountably affixed to a drive means, preferably an air motor in a handle which is aligned with the axis of r... | 12/20/1977 |
