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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7341505 | Bird wing cutting machine A machine for cutting poultry wings into segments. Holders convey wings through a guide that positions the first joint between the drumette and midwing. A blade incises the connective tissue after the bones at the joint have been disarticulated by lateral guides tha... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7201648 | Method of preparing poultry drumstick for frying, and food product therefrom The disclosure teaches a method of preparing a poultry drumstick, particularly chicken drumsticks, for cooking, and the food product produced therefrom. Chicken drumsticks, featuring a centrally disposed elongated bone between a thigh end and a foot end, including a... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7063611 | Filleting system for poultry A filleting system for poultry, such as chickens, includes a conveyor system incorporating carriers for the poultry. Processing stations are provided in or along the path of the conveyor system for successively processing parts of the poultry, wherein the processing... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 6929541 | Method for making a fowl wing cut and the resultant product The present invention is a method for cutting a fowl to create a meat cut which includes the radius bone and muscles (meat) adhering to the radius bone. The method involves separating the radius bone and muscles adhering to the radius bone from the carcass of the fo... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6277020 | Method and apparatus for removing meat from poultry carcasses There is disclosed a procedure for use in deboning poultry comprising locating the prepared poultry carcass with its wingbones (12) clamped on wingbone rests (13) defining edges which abut the wingbones at their wing joint (11a) ends whereby the wingbones... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6007416 | Method and apparatus for filleting the body of slaughtered poultry In a method and an apparatus for automatic removal of at least an inner fillet from slaughtered poultry or a part thereof before the connection between the inner fillets and the carcass is broken, a separation is made in the opening bounded by the clavicl... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5984770 | Method and apparatus for separating bone and meat of upper half of poultry carcass and auto-loading system used therewith A method and apparatus for separating bone and meat of the upper half of a poultry carcass with a variety of the sizes are provided, wherein first cutting is effected in the neighborhood of a shoulder joint to disconnect tissues under influence of a separ... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5954574 | Wing remover A wing remover (10) for removing the wings from birds as the birds are conveyed along an overhead conveyor line (13) includes wing guides (66 and 67) that engage the birds and cause the shoulder joints between the wings and shoulders of the birds to be op... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5947811 | Apparatus for cutting up carcasses of poultry The poultry cut-up apparatus receives vertically halved poultry carcasses in an inverted attitude transported along an overhead conveyor. Vertically spaced, horizontally oriented pairs of circular cutting blades (21, 22) cut the carcasses into segments as... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5833527 | Poultry breast filleting apparatus Previously eviscerated poultry carcasses are moved in series along a conveyor (26), mounted upon a series of mandrels (33). As the poultry carcasses are moved along their processing path and are mounted on their mandrels (33), the carcasses are automatica... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5618230 | Device for cutting up wings of poultry bodies A device for cutting up the wings of poultry bodies into their component parts is described. The device comprises a saddle conveyor for receiving the poultry bodies in the form of front halves with wings. The wings are engaged and synchronously accompanie... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5569069 | Apparatus for cutting wings from poultry An apparatus for cutting wings from boned whole poultry breasts includes a pair of spaced chain loops supporting laterally aligned pairs of fixtures which hold the wings to support the breasts and serve as anvils for annular knife blades which are driven ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5496210 | Conveyorized wing portioning system An automatic, poultry wing portioning system that employs a linear path throughout the entire portioning process. The system portions the wings into their constituent parts by moving the wings, supported by uniquely designed carriers, via conveyor into en... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5494479 | Device for boning wings of poultry or the like This invention provides an apparatus for deboning animal extremities, such as poultry wings. The apparatus comprises means for transporting the extremity; means for cutting the bones of said extremity in a direction transverse to their longitudinal axes; ... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5429549 | Sequential wing remover A method and apparatus for removing the wings of birds as the birds are conveyed along a poultry processing line suspended by their legs. As the birds are carried through the wing remover (10), the wings on one side of the birds are engaged by a first win... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5411434 | Poultry shoulder and breast severing machine Poultry processing apparatus is disclosed for automatically performing shoulder-wing separation and severing cuts, short transverse shoulder cuts and long back cuts in the rib cage breast meat of a poultry carcass preparatory to removal of the wings and b... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5407383 | Method for detaching the wings from poultry bodies and an apparatus for carrying out the method An apparatus for detaching wings from a poultry body is described in which the detachment is effected by means of three pairs of separating tools with varying arrangements and forms of knife blades. The poultry bodies are prepared as front halves and pass... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5368519 | Method of making a food product from a bird wing and food product made in accordance with the method A method of making a food product from a wing of a bird comprising a middle section having a tip section attached to one end and a drumette section attached to the other end comprises cutting the wing to separate the middle section from the drumette secti... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5368520 | Apparatus and method for separating wings and attached breasts from poultry carcasses Apparatus and method for separating wings and attached breast from poultry carcasses comprising prescoring the flesh of the poultry carcass over the shoulder joint, separating the wing from the poultry carcass at the shoulder joint using a rotating cup kn... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5312291 | Method and device for filleting the body of a slaughtered bird A method and device for filleting the body of a slaughtered bird, or a part thereof, the method having the following steps: making incisions in the shoulder joints while the connection between the muscles to be filleted and their wing bones remains intact... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5286229 | Method of making a food product from the wing of a bird and food product made in accordance with the method A method of making a food product from the wing of a bird comprising a middle section, a tip section and an end section involves cutting through a first joint to separate and remove the tip section. Skin extending between the middle section and the end se... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5232397 | Method of making a food product from the wing of a bird and food product made in accordance with the method A method of making a food product from a wing of a bird is disclosed. The wing includes a middle section, a tip section connected to one end of the middle section, and an end section attached to the other end of the middle section. The food product is pro... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5188560 | Wing tip cutter Birds are conveyed in an inverted attitude suspended by their legs form shackles as their torsos move between a pair of guide rods (48) and guide rails (58) prior to reaching a pair of rotary cutting blades (41). A ramp (62) is positioned to engage the sh... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5183434 | Method and apparatus for removing the skin from poultry carcasses The machine employs a plurality of individual, pointed mandrels that are attached to a closed loop conveyor having an upper processing run and a lower return run. As the mandrels move along the upper run, they are periodically reoriented into a number of ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5176564 | Mid-wing cutter A poultry wing tip processing apparatus (9) wherein the mid-wing segments are severed from the drumette segments of the wings of poultry carcasses, or other similar fowl. The carcasses are conveyed in an inverted attitude suspended by their legs from shac... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5147241 | Multipiece poultry wing receiving wheel and method A poultry wing receiving wheel is formed in three separable wheel segments, each of which have peripheral teeth which are aligned when such three segments are assembled so as to collectively form a plurality of circumferentially spaced poultry wing receiv... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5083974 | Turkey breast deboner An apparatus for producing boneless turkey breasts comprises a conveyor for supporting an upper half of a turkey along a first path, and a separate conveyor for securing the wings of the turkey and pulling them away from the first path as the upper half i... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5080631 | Method and apparatus of cutting the second joint of a poultry wing and product therefrom A conveyor with juxtaposed blocks moves along a path of travel, certain of the blocks have recesses which receive second joints of the wings of poultry. The second joints are arranged sidewise to the path of travel of the conveyor, in the recesses and are... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5078644 | Apparatus for cutting the second joint of a poultry wing A pair of opposed discs having inner surfaces provided with recesses which receive second joints of poultry. A knife is disposed in a stationary position between the discs for cutting each second joint from an intermediate portion outwardly so as to leave... | 01/07/1992 |
| 5071388 | Method for processing poultry extremities apparatus therefor A method for deboning the extremities of poultry and an apparatus for performing this method serve to process extremities consisting of upper and lower arm or leg members, which members are joined by means of a central joint. The process includes the subs... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5035674 | Machine for cutting wings of skate fish Apparatus (10) for the rapid, assembly-line severing of wing sections from marine creatures such as skates or rays is provided which minimizes manual labor and collects severed wing sections for further processing. The apparatus (10) is provided with a wi... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4993115 | Compact wing cut-off machine A wing removal method and apparatus comprising a conveyor (31) which a poultry carcass (9) is placed for processing the wings (7) extending downwardly below the conveyors. The back of the carcass (9) is placed upon a pair of cradles (32) and engaged by a ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4993111 | Wing cutter attachment An apparatus for cutting breast-attached wings into segments includes a conveyor chain for carrying the wings, attached to whole breasts, along respective gaps between panels on either side of the breasts and over a rotating knife for removing the wing ti... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4937918 | Inline breast deboner A method and apparatus for producing boneless chicken breasts maximizes the amount of meat retained by the breast when the wing is removed from the breast, by permitting the wing to rotate with respect to the breast as the final wing cut is made while the... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4935990 | Device for cutting in parts the wings of poultry A device for cutting in parts the wings of poultry is provided comprising wing guide means (16, 17, 12) for exactly positioning the wing to be cut relative to a cutting device (21). These wing guide means comprise at least a horizontal guide plate (16), a... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4920610 | Method for mechanically removing the wings from poultry bodies and apparatus therefor A method for removing wings from poultry bodies and an apparatus for performing the method are described, in which a poultry body held on a conveyor is supplied to a separating mechanism. The latter comprises either two successive separating tools or only... | 05/01/1990 |
