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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7364503 | Method and apparatus for tenderizing meat A method for tenderizing meat of a red meat slaughter animal includes separating a vertebra of the animal and applying electrical stimulation to the animal's musculature. The vertebra separating is performed prior to the onset of rigor mortis to enable stretching of... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7249998 | Method for processing poultry A method is described for processing poultry, comprising the steps of supplying live poultry, stunning the live poultry in a stunning device, placing the stunned poultry into product carriers advanced along a conveyor, killing the poultry and removing the feathers f... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7025669 | Electrical treatment of carcasses An animal carcass (12) being processed on a slaughter line (8) passes through various electrical current processing stations such as immobilisation (1), low voltage electrical stimulation (2), electronic bleeding (3), nerve deactiv... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6899613 | Method and device for processing a slaughter animal In a method and device for opening a blood vessel in the neck of a pre-positioned slaughter animal, a blood vessel is opened as a result of at least one cutting device being moved into the neck from one side of the neck towards the opposite side of the neck, the blo... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6001011 | Fish harvester A fish harvester for the automatic and humane slaughter of fish comprises a fish accommodating space having an entrance for insertion of a fish and an exit for removal of a fish. The harvester includes means for positioning and retaining a fish, a slaught... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5954573 | Method for bleeding poultry A method is disclosed for bleeding a live fowl upon processing the fowl after severing a carotid artery of the fowl. According to the method, electric pulses are applied across the fowl promptly after the carotid artery of the fowl is severed. Preferably,... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5931730 | Secured sanitary catheter The present invention relates to a secured sanitary catheter for administration of treatment solution into animals comprising a catheter body with a longitudinal bore and a sanitary vascular securing device attached to the catheter body. The catheter body... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5318079 | Device for automatic collection, intermediate storage and emptying of blood from slaughter animals A device for automatic collection, intermediate storage and emptying of blood from slaughter animals, comprising an endless track (2), a number of containers (3) movable along the track and a filling station (4) and an emptying and washing station (5) whi... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5250004 | Device for withdrawing blood from slaughter animals A device for withdrawing blood from slaughter animals transported on a conveyor serially past a sticking station has a debleeding carousel (1) disposed at the sticking station and consisting of a body (2), a lower frame member (3) and an upper member fram... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5246396 | Method for the humane slaughter and processing of domesticated ostrich A method is disclosed for the humane slaughter and efficient processing of ostrich. The method envisions transporting ostrich from station to station within a facility via a rail system. First, an ostrich is rendered unconscious by an electrical discharge... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5240453 | Animal sticking An animal sticking apparatus for sticking an animal to be slaughtered comprises a sticking tool (10) having two rotary or oscillating cutting blades (16) and support means (21) mounting the sticking tool (10) for insertion and withdrawal movements. The cu... | 08/31/1993 |
| 4946692 | Method for treating slaughtered animals Method and apparatus for controlled injection of treatment solution into the circulatory system of slaughtered animals.... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4300263 | Process and apparatus for the preparation of flat-fish for the bleeding The invention concerns a process for the mechanical opening of the bloodstream of flat-fish, the application of which has the aim of the bleeding of the fish. The apparatus proposed for this is equipped with a rotatably driven knife sleeve, which is sharp... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4053963 | Portable apparatus for use in the treatment of slaughtered animals A portable apparatus having a tank having an internally treated surface for containing at least 500 liters, a pump connected to the exit of the tank for pumping solution to a nozzle through a reducing coupling, a water meter means for controlling the quan... | 10/18/1977 |
