Butchering – Carcass subdivision – Extremity remover
Patent
1991-01-30
1993-03-23
Little, Willis
Butchering
Carcass subdivision
Extremity remover
452167, A22C 2100
Patent
active
051959259
ABSTRACT:
A method of declawing poultry by applying a form of heat to the claws of a one-day old poult. The preferred form of heat is microwave energy, which is applied for one-half second. After such a bloodless and relatively painless treatment, the claws fall off in one to three weeks. Declawing apparatus including a magnetron supplying microwave energy into a waveguide into which a poult's toes are inserted by conveyer which carries the poult in inverted position by shackles from which the poult is suspended in inverted position.
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Little Willis
Nova-Tech Engineering, Inc.
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