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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8033898 | Microbiocidal control in the processing of meat-producing four-legged animals Methods of processing four-legged slaughter animals for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s) are described. The methods comprise I) contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8033897 | Method for collecting useful portions of fish heads and device for collecting useful portions of fish head Useful portions in the fish heads W are collected from a number of fish heads W of the same kind of fish and of roughly same shape, pituitaries M. A useful portion line is preliminarily determined which passes pituitaries M as useful portions of the number of fish h... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8002614 | Microbiocidal control in the processing of meat-producing four-legged animals Methods of processing four-legged slaughter animals for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s) are described. The methods comprise I) contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7988541 | Meat pulling apparatus A meat pulling apparatus having a hopper and a rotating drum with a plurality of pins or rippers capable of pulling or shredding a food material. The hopper having one or more meat stops which assist in the pulling or shredding and prohibit the food material in an u... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7914365 | Microbiocidal control in the processing of meat-producing four-legged animals Methods of processing four-legged slaughter animals for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s) are described. The methods comprise I) contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at least... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7909683 | Knife and method of using same A knife for producing a butterfly cut of meat, the knife having a handle and a first knife blade attached at one end thereof to the handle, the first knife blade having a first distance between the top and the bottom thereof and being sharpened on the bottom thereof... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7901276 | Microbiocidal control in the processing of meat-producing four-legged animals Methods of processing four-legged slaughter animals for consumption as meat and/or meat product(s) are described. The methods comprise: I) contacting exterior surfaces of the live animal at least once with a microbiocidal solution formed from mixing together at leas... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7828637 | Method for making a steamship leg of pork cut and the resultant product The present invention is a method for cutting a pork leg to create a meat cut which includes an exposed bone feature and a squared face. The method for making the exposed bone feature involves trimming shank meat bare from a fibula bone and removing a tibia bone abo... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7740528 | Apparatus for cutting elongated meat An apparatus for cutting elongated meat includes a frame that has a longitudinal axis and a motor proximate the frame. At least two generally circular blades are rotatably mounted to the frame each about a respective blade axis. Each blade axis is generally perpendi... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7690972 | Method for making a steamship of pork cut and the resultant product The present invention is a method for cutting a pork leg to create a meat cut which includes an exposed bone feature and a squared face. The method for making the exposed bone feature involves trimming shank meat bare from a fibula bone and removing a tibia bone abo... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7524241 | Device and method for cutting meat A device (1) for cutting meat, provided with at least one knife (12) and means (2,3) for carrying, in a transport direction (T), meat (22) along the knife (12), such that the meat is cut into at least two parts, while in the transp... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7425174 | Head meat system A head meat processing system and a head meat processing method. The processing system includes a rod for receiving and positioning the head, a fastener for grasping a portion of the head and a member for advancing the head onto a horn assembly while the portion is ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7374478 | 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... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7364504 | Apparatus and method for producing controlled portions of meat products An apparatus for producing multiple portions of meat. A plurality of product mandrels having an open-top recess are mounted on a conveyor for travel along a selected path. The mandrels are selectively rotatable about a vertical axis. Two sets of parallel slots are p... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357707 | Method and apparatus for harvesting an inner fillet from poultry A method and apparatus is provided for harvesting an inner fillet from poultry, wherein a tendon with which the inner fillet is or was connected to a wing bone of the poultry projects from the inner fillet. The tendon is gripped, and subsequently the tendon and the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7351134 | Meat dressing/boning method and system therefor A meat dressing and boning method and a system thereof can dress and bone meat and carcass in short work-hours, while avoiding bacterial contamination. The system includes a clamp mechanism for holding a meat block with bones, a hanger connected to clamp mechanism a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7335095 | Apparatus and method for separating wings from breast meat of poultry A wing separation apparatus and method for separating wings from a breast part of poultry having its breast bone removed can handle a wide variety of poultry sizes. The breast part is supported at its left and right arm pits on a pair of shafts with the left and rig... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7302886 | Hulling apparatus and method A hulling apparatus having a main frame, a moveable support frame, a rotatable drum fixed in position relative to the main frame, a housing supported by the moveable support frame and a hulling chamber formed by the placement of the drum inside the housing. A contac... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7277889 | Asset management and status system An asset management and status system includes a number of data communication terminals and one or more interconnected remote computing systems, which may be utilized for managing and tracking a large number of varied and distributed assets. Each data communication ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7261629 | Poultry wing separator and partial deboner Poultry wings are suspended by their tip segments and oriented so that their outside surfaces face one side of the processing path, with right wings oriented with their elbows leading, and left wings oriented with their elbows trailing. The lower, primary segments a... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7252584 | 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 ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7226349 | Process to electronically automate the sorting of chicken feet in the category of edible or inedible Photoelectric and inductive sensors are placed along a picking and eviscerating chicken lines. The sensors detect the location of a chicken bird in a shackle and its associated feet, also in a shackle. The sensors communicate this information to a programmable logic... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220176 | System and method for production of exact weight ground meat A method and system for producing portions of ground meat having a predetermined target weight is disclosed. This system includes a pump assembly that is capable of extruding a stream of ground meat, a conveyor that is capable of transporting the stream of ground me... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7210993 | Optimal hog carcass processing system and method A system and a method for determining a break point of a plurality of hog carcasses is disclosed. The method includes establishing at least one criterion for determining whether the loin of a carcass should be boned. Data is then collected from the hog carcasses rel... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7207114 | Rotary knife with improved drive transmission A rotary knife with an improved drive transmission. The knife includes a tubular handle assembly, an annular blade, a blade housing, a pneumatic motor, and a drive transmission assembly. The transmission includes a drive or pinion gear, a drive shaft, and a connecto... | 04/24/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7198565 | Automatic boning system of upper half of slaughtered edible fowl An automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl is provided, in which the number of processing steps is decreased, integrated control using cams is adopted instead of individual control of prior art using hydraulic actuators, and an improvement in... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191691 | Food chopper A food chopping or slicing device preferably includes three primary components, including a lid, a blade tray, and a food reservoir. The lid and the food reservoir are pivotally connected to one another, with the blade tray being removably mounted within an upper ri... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7175517 | Semi-boneless poultry product The present invention relates to a semi-boneless poultry product and a method of making thereof wherein bones of a poultry carcass are removed and the remaining meat portion of the carcass forms an integral butchered cut that can be stitched closed and trussed, wrap... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7134958 | Method of making bird wing and breast products and products made in accordance with the method A method of cutting a whole bird to form bird meat products comprises: removing a portion of each of the wings of the bird including the wing tip sections and the center, two bone sections; removing both of the breasts and the drumettes of the wings from the remaind... | 11/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7104879 | Automatic boning system of upper half of slaughtered edible fowl An automatic boning system of the upper half of a slaughtered fowl is provided, in which the number of processing steps is decreased, integrated control using cams is adopted instead of individual control of prior art using hydraulic actuators, and an improvement in... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7097553 | Method and apparatus for forming a shaped meat product Method and apparatus for forming a shaped meat product by cutting under compression. Male and female die assemblies carried by dual conveyers are loaded with meat components and brought together in compression to define a die. The assemblies are formed with arrays o... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7077738 | Apparatus for and method of processing meat An apparatus for and method of cleaning cutting residue from one or both sides of cut meat. Meat, after being cut, for example with a band saw or the like, is passed through a curtain of fluid to impinge fluid on to at least one side of the meat for removing a subst... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7059952 | Filleting assembly and method of using same A filleting assembly (10) adapted for field use includes a flexible sheet (12) equipped with a clamp (14), together with a tie-down assembly (16) allowing the sheet to be secured in place to a variety of different supports. The sheet (... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059954 | Method and device for processing a poultry leg In a method and device for processing a poultry leg which is hanging from a carrier and comprises at least a drumstick, the operations are carried out: cutting into the drumstick substantially around the drumstick in the vicinity of the tarsal joint by means of at l... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7029388 | Method of making a food product from the back of a bird and the product produced in accordance with the method A method of cutting the back of a bird provides two boneless meat products. The back includes a backbone, a tail at the rear end of the backbone and an area of meat on each side of the backbone. The method includes cutting the back along a first cut line extending g... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7010457 | Apparatus and method for producing a numeric display corresponding to the volume of a selected segment of an item An apparatus and method for displaying the weight or cost of an uncut selected segment of an item involves passing a position indicating member over the item lying on a support surface. The position indicating member carries one or more sensors which generate signal... | 03/07/2006 |
