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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2007
William R. Sorensen, Blue Springs, MO (US);
Michael S. Haines, Lenexa, KS (US);
Joshua Gillespie, Gladstone, MO (US);
Antoine J. H. Winkelmolen, Shawnee, KS (US);
William R. Sorensen, Blue Springs, MO (US);
Michael S. Haines, Lenexa, KS (US);
Joshua Gillespie, Gladstone, MO (US);
Antoine J. H. Winkelmolen, Shawnee, KS (US);
Johnson Food Equipment, Inc., Kansas City, KS (US);
Abstract
A device () and method for clamping or otherwise securing an esophagus between the crop and certain internal organs, including the viscera, and substantially simultaneously cutting or otherwise separating, or weakening for subsequent predictable separation, the esophagus at or near the clamped location, thereby avoiding pulling apart the crop and the resulting contamination of the carcass.