Apparatus for cutting open a fowl
CA 1048717 A · Owner: Meyn, Pieter · Inventors: Meyn, Pieter
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Abstract of the disclosure A revolving apparatus for automatically cutting open fowl hanging by the ankle joints from an overhead conveyor having a number of cutting units regularly spaced about the circumference of the appatatus. The cutting units work in succession as they revolve about the central shaft of the apparatus moving along with the conveyor. Each cutting unit is also vertically movable down towards a fowl carried by the conveyor and away again from the fowl. Each cutting unit carries a ball shaped protrusion consisting of two separatable ball halves one of which, carries a knife in its upper part facing away from the other ball half. During the downward movement of each cutting …
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- Granted February 20, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended February 20, 1996.
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