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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerardus H Ketels, Grave, NL;
Assignee:
Stork Protecon B.V., AE Oss, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ; A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
452135 ; 452160 ; 452170 ; 30388 ;
Abstract
A method for preparing a pig's head for mechanical boning including making a transverse cut in the snout from the underside of the head so that the transverse cut separates the greater part of the rostral bone from the greater part of the jaw-bone, and apparatus for carrying out the method which includes a support structure for upside down placing thereon of the pig's head for preparing and cutting a member movable toward the support structure in direction inclining relative to the support structure and adapted for making a transverse cut in the snout from the underside of the head.