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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2014
Zoetis Services Llc, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Michael Glenn Schnupper, Raleigh, NC (US);
Ramin Karimpour, Raleigh, NC (US);
Thomas Zelmer, Garner, NC (US);
Daniel Scott Rees, Zebulon, NC (US);
Steven Jay Edwards, Apex, NC (US);
Zoetis Services LLC, Parsippany, NJ (US);
Abstract
An egg processing apparatus is provided. Such an apparatus includes a processing head and processing devices associated therewith. Each processing device has an end configured to interact with an avian egg. Each processing device is capable of being selectively held in a non-contact or contact position with respect to an avian egg during a processing sequence such that a first subset of the processing devices is in the non-contact position while simultaneously having a second subset of the processing devices in the contact position. An associated method is also provided.