Apparatus and method for splitting poultry breasts

Patent 4251901 Issued on February 24, 1981. Estimated Expiration Date:

July 20, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Holly Farms Poultry Industries, Inc.

Application

No. 06/059486 filed on 07/20/1979

US Classes:

452/163, Means repositioning carcass relative to cutter452/165While internally supported on a mandrel

Examiners

Primary: Abercrombie, Willie G.

International Class

A22C 21/00 (20060101)

Abstract

Apparatus and method for receiving, positioning and clamping a chicken and severing the breast bone of the clamped chicken before releasing it while moving the chicken in a directed path of travel.