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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1975
Eugene G Martin, Ephrata, PA (US);
Harold C Martin, Leola, PA (US);
Victor F. Weaver, Inc., New Holland, PA (US);
Abstract
A machine in which eviserated dressed poultry carcasses from which leg shanks have been removed from the legs are mounted upon a conveyor by clamping member thereon which is driven to move each carcass through all separating stations of the machine to sequentially and automatically remove (1) the wing tips from the intermediate wing sections, (2) the intermediate sections from the wing stubs, (3) the wing stubs from the vertebrae (back), (4) the whole breast from the vertebrae, and (5) the thighs and legs from the vertebrae in a manner to also remove the 'oyster' from the vertebrae, whereby the tail and vertebrae are removed from the machine to complete the dismemberment of the carcass into all the normal commercially available pieces.