Leg splitting machine
CA 1207505 A · Owner: Foodcraft Equipment Company, Inc. · Inventors: Martin, Harold C.; Martin, Eugene G.; Risser, Dale M.
Overview
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A poultry leg splitting machine adapted to be employed either alone or in combination with a poultry leg/ back processor, wherein separated whole poultry legs comprised of the joined drumstick and thigh portions are delivered by a flighted helical conveyor to a rotating slotted pocket wheel. The wheel in cooperative combination with fold-over guide rails automatically bends the drumstickto-thigh, ball-and-socket joint about the joint natural flex arc thereof across the slotted pocket wheel circumferential edge for angled slot blade severing of one set of distended joint side tendons. The joint is thereby enabled to pop under continued fold-over guide rail pressure and pocket wheel arcuate …
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- Granted July 15, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 15, 2003.
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