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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:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Petrus Christianus Janssen, Wilbertoord, NL;
Adrianus J van den Nieuwelaar, Gemert, NL;
Assignee:
Stork PMT B.V., , NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
452135 ; 452136 ;
Abstract
A method and a device for boning a leg or a part thereof of a slaughtered animal. Prior to the removal of the meat from the leg or the part thereof, an incision is made through a tendon at the position of the condyle of the tibia in the ankle joint. During scraping of meat from the lower leg, the lower leg is retained by a lug which engages in the canalis tendineus. Prior to or during the boning operation, the kneecap of the leg is pressed through an opening of a stop element, following which the kneecap projecting from the opening is removed.