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Diversified Products, Inc.

William J Hill

Carl J Hill, Deceased

Ira J Silberman

By Hazel Hill, Executrix

Robert C Kelley

By Hazel Hill, Heiress

A guided weight exercise device has a lower anchor arrangement for readily attaching the lower portion of the device to a supporting wall by pivotal movement of the device about a floor-engaging support upwardly from a slanted position with the lower portion of the unit adjacent the wall. Reverse pivotal movement of the device detaches it from the wall. The floor-engaging support may be a wheel assembly. The guide assembly for the weights comprises a pair of spaced parallel guide bars each having separate upper and lower bar sections, and a coupling which interconnects the guide bars and joins their upper and lower sections. The weight is lifted by a guided carriage and an arrangement of upper and lower sheaves and a cable. The sheaves and cable are located adjacent the wall and completely behind the carriage and the guide bars. The upper sheave is pivoted about a vertical axis, and both upper and lower sheaves are located medially of the guide bars so that the cable can extend away from the device from between the guide bars.

Portable wall mounted exercise unit

A method and apparatus for processing poultry gizzards at substantially high line speeds. A plurality of gizzards preferably with the stomach and intestines attached are directed in a random arrangement into a feeding and aligning station. Feed roll means at that station apply an initial orienting force to each gizzard and transport each gizzard along a predetermined path. Orienting means adjacent said feed roll means applys a second orienting force to each gizzard which cooperates with the first orienting force to orient each gizzard into a preselected position. Means are also provided to secure each gizzard in said preselected position. Means then remove the stomach and intestines from the tender lining of each gizzard. Slitting and spreader means slit and open each gizzard, and cleaning means flush the contaminants from the opened gizzards. Shearing means then engage and remove the residual tender lining from each gizzard, and peeling means peel the interior lining or membrane from the gizzards.

Gizzard harvesting process

A method and apparatus for processing poultry gizzards employing in-feed rollers and retarding means to initially orient the gizzards with appendage organs dangling below. The appendage organs are severed whereupon the gizzards are secured in the initial positions, transported and reoriented to a new position before being slit by a cutting blade. The slit gizzards are spread apart and transferred while being secured in a predefined position to a shearer-peeler station having a pair of primary rollers with a shearing and a peeling section, and then to a pair of slower rotating rollers also with a shearer and a peeler section. A vibrating tamper compresses the gizzards on the secondary peeler section for a final thorough cleaning of the gizzards.

High yield gizzard harvesting apparatus

An apparatus for processing poultry gizzards at substantially high line speeds. A plurality of gizzards preferably with the stomach and intestines attached are directed in a random arrangement into a feeding and aligning station. Feed roll means at that station apply an initial orienting force to each gizzard and transport each gizzard along a predetermined path. Orienting means adjacent said feed roll means applys a second orienting force to each gizzard which cooperates with the first orienting force to orient each gizzard into a preselected position. Means are also provided to secure each gizzard in said preselected position. Means then remove the stomach and intestines from the tender lining of each gizzard. Slitting and spreader means slit and open each gizzard, and cleaning means flush the contaminants from the opened gizzards. Shearing means then engage and remove the residual tender lining from each gizzard, and peeling means peel the interior lining or membrane from the gizzards.

Gizzard harvesting apparatus

Gizzard harvesting apparatus and process

A poultry skinning machine for removing the skin from poultry parts utilizes rollers having inter-engaging helical teeth that laterally transport the poultry parts while removing the skin from the product. The rollers act in cooperation with a cover means having a shearing section disposed in a substantially bearing relationship along at least a portion of the rollers adjacent their ends. The shearing section facilitates separating the product from detaching skin whereby roller clogging is avoided by directing skin through a receiving gap formed between end bearing means. The skinned product is at the same time conveyed atop the closely fitting shear section.

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Ball Ground, GA, United States of America

William J Hill