Apparatus for removing the neck from a fowl
CA 1046714 A · Owner: Meijn, Pieter · Inventors: Meijn, Pieter
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An apparatus for removing the neck of a plucked head-, less fowl hanging by the legs from a hook for an overhead conveyor. The apparatus is built in the manner of a merry-go-round and has a number of clamping units, regularly spaced about the circumference of the apparatus and moving along with the conveyor, each unit being slidably mounted on a vertical slide bar and adapted to grip the fowl's neck, so that the vertebrae of the neck are separated from the remaining part of the fowl's spine without damage to the skin of the neck. After separating the vertebrae the unit moves downwards relative to the fowl so that the vertebrae are at least partially pushed out of the skin together with the …
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- Granted January 23, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 23, 1996.
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