Poultry de-feathering apparatus and method

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2005-07-19

2005-07-19

Poon, Peter M. (Department: 3643)

Butchering

Epidermal outgrowth remover

Power driven

C452S089000, C452S091000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06918825

ABSTRACT:
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 are of sufficiently low mass such as to decrease poundage yield loss (e.g. decrease fat loss and poultry wing damage). In some embodiments, apparatus is provided having a plurality of filaments rotatable about an axis for removing feathers from a poultry carcass.

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