1979-09-11
1981-06-09
Abercrombie, Willie G.
A22C 2100
Patent
active
042715610
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for disjointing and removing the leg and thigh portions from the backs of poultry leg and back carcasses pendulously supported by the feet from shackles suspended from an overhead conveyor at spaced intervals with the back of each carcass lying between the legs in a reversed direction from the normal position. The apparatus comprises an endless dismembering conveyor mounted below the level of the shackles and having conveying elements engageable with one side of the carcass backs moving along a path that diverges both horizontally and vertically at an acute angle from the path of the overhead conveyor. Retaining bars are mounted closely above the dismembering conveyor conveying elements to extend axially along the conveyor in a spaced relationship as will contact the poultry carcasses immediately adjacent the juncture of the leg thighs and the backs and retain the backs between the retaining bars and the dismembering conveyor conveying elements. The thigh portions immediately adjacent the backs will follow the horizontal path of motion of the dismembering conveyor with the backs trapped between the retaining bars and dismembering conveyor and carried along the path of the dismembering conveyor as the legs are carried by the shackles along a diverging path suspended below the overhead conveyor, thereby parting the legs and thighs from the backs retained between the dismembering conveyor and overlying retaining bars.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3490092 (1970-01-01), Harrison
patent: 3943600 (1976-03-01), Cramer
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