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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6918825 | Poultry de-feathering apparatus and method Apparatus for de-feathering (i.e. picking or plucking) poultry. More particularly, picking apparatus employing a plurality of elongated picking elements which are resistant to cracking and/or micro-poring, and which are preferably flexible and/or bendable and which ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 5863245 | Fowl-plucking device Fowl-plucking device which is comprised of elastic tines arranged at different angles for the purpose of removing the feathers (plucking) the fowl and a fan which blows air for the purpose of projecting the feathers removed toward a disposable bag which c... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5489236 | Fecal leakage and contamination control during poultry processing Fecal leakage and contamination from the vent opening of an animal carcass during slaughtering and processing is reduced or eliminated by applying a curable adhesive composition to the vent opening and permitting the applied curable composition to cure to... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5106333 | Poultry picker A poultry picker comprises four independently movable banks of rotary picker heads. Each bank is supported at its ends by brackets, which are independently, vertically movable on respective uprights. Each bank can be moved toward or away from its upright ... | 04/21/1992 |
| 4514879 | Suspended feather picker with rotatable sections Two banks of feather pickers 65 and 66 are suspended from overhead parallel support beams 22 and 23 on opposite sides of the path of travel of a series of poultry carcasses moving along an overhead conveyor system. A pair of movable frame members 30, 31 a... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4329760 | Fowl defeathering apparatus Fowl picking apparatus provided with at least two rows of picking elements on both sides of the path of the fowl which carry picking discs with rotation axes displaced with respect to each other in the respective rows, such that during operation the circl... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4292709 | Picking element for a poultry picking apparatus A picking element for a poultry picking apparatus comprises a beaker-shaped support whose casing surface carrying picking fingers is a truncated conical surface and whose end face is situated substantially transversely to the axis of rotation, there being... | 10/06/1981 |
| 4217678 | Poultry picking machine The machine has two laterally separated banks of pickers located on opposite sides of the path of travel of poultry carcasses conveyed through the machine. Each bank includes three horizontally extending lines of rotary pickers set in spaced opposition to... | 08/19/1980 |
| 4179772 | Drum/disk poultry picker This invention relates to poultry picking machines and more particularly to a poultry picking machine for removing the feathers from fowl with multiple finger action using a first plurality of picking fingers rotatable about axes of rotation extending gen... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4064596 | Apparatus for processing poultry A poultry processing apparatus including an elongated enclosure defining a longitudinally extending channel through which fowl is moved via a conveyor for picking and removing the feathers therefrom. A plurality of picking members having resilient fingers... | 12/27/1977 |
