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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| RE42603 | Poultry processing hub and belt assembly This invention relates to a hub and belt assembly for driving a poultry de-feathering machine and more particularly to a multiple bearing heat dissipating hub driven by a serrated timing belt. The hub assembly incorporates seals along a drive shaft to reduce wear ca... | 08/09/2011 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7175516 | Poultry processing hub and belt assembly This invention relates to a hub and belt assembly for driving a poultry de-feathering machine and more particularly to a multiple bearing heat dissipating hub driven by a serrated timing belt. The hub assembly incorporates seals along a drive shaft to reduce wear ca... | 02/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6855048 | Wing tip feather puller The invention is a method and apparatus for removing feathers from a carcass, and more specifically is a method and apparatus for removing feathers from the wing tips of poultry. The method and apparatus comprises at least one wing tip puller which further comprises... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6824461 | Hair depilating device and method for improved depilating coverage A hand-held, motorized depilating device, introducing a novel mechanical design to provide improved depilating coverage and hair plucking efficiency, without requiring the user to pass the device over the same given skin, area numerous times. The hair-plucking assem... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6824460 | Method for removing skin having variations in thickness from the torso of an animal An apparatus for removing skin from a torso of an animal using a rotatable drum having a circumference. A gripper is positioned at a point on the circumference of the rotatable drum adapted to engage a portion of the skin causing the torso of the animal to rotate as... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6730099 | Appliance for plucking hairs out of human skin The invention is directed to an appliance for the epilation of the human skin, having a housing to accommodate a motor and a drive mechanism for driving at least one clamping device (43) by which the user's hairs can be extracted. Moreover, a stimulus mechani... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6406366 | Method and apparatus for removing pin bones An apparatus and method for removing a pin bone or pin bones from a fillet of fish. The apparatus of the present invention uses a rotating stack of individual disks that are engaged by a shaft, oscillate axially and are timed to alternately tilt in a rapi... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6287190 | Hand-held epilating device A hand-held epilating device capable of increasing plucking efficiency. The epilating device has a housing to be grasped by a hand of a user, and a plucking cylinder carrying at least one set of pinching elements for catching and pinching body hairs there... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6123614 | Method and apparatus for removing pin bones An apparatus and method for removing pin bones from a fillet of fish. The apparatus of the present invention uses a plurality of spring-tempered sheet metal disks that each has a periphery that can be either non-linear or linear. The disks are assembled t... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5911621 | Apparatus for deboning fish fillets In accordance with this invention, there is provided apparatus for removing pin bones from fish fillets, the apparatus having a rotatable bone pulling cylinder and a puller plate defining a pin bone receiving space between the bone pulling cylinder and pu... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5857903 | Rotary cylinder for an epilating appliance The invention is directed to a rotary cylinder (7) for an epilating appliance comprising several pairs of clamping members (8) arranged in an angularly offset relation to each other, and actuating members (22) serving to move the clamping members (8) in p... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5525101 | Bone removing device The invention relates to a device for removing fish bones from hist meat, or quills from killed poultry, comprising a cylinder provided with gripping means shaped as holes, a counter pressure element for achieving a squeezing function between the counter ... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5197969 | Depilation apparatus with thrust cogs A depilation apparatus having a number of disc-shaped pinching plates (19) provided on a drive shaft (7) and a number of thrust cogs (41) provided on an auxiliary shaft (21), by means of which cogs the pinching plates are each tiltable about a first and a... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5196021 | Depilatory device A depilatory device for removing body hair, includes a pair of jaws adapted to sequentially traverse an opening in the housing when the hair-plucker body is driven by an electrical motor. The jaws of each pair are normally spaced apart in an open conditio... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5135430 | Depilation apparatus The invention relates to a depilation apparatus, in which a driving roller (3) and a drive roller (4) are provided with tooth means (5, 6) and form a roller pair, the rollers performing a rotary movement which is directed into the interior of the apparatu... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5084056 | Depilation apparatus A depilation apparatus is provided which comprises at least one pair of depilation rollers (3, 4; 5, 6) arranged at the location of an opening (2) in the apparatus for access to their circumferential surfaces, which rollers are rotatably supported, which ... | 01/28/1992 |
