Apparatus for separating meat from poultry bones
CA 2025148 C · Owner: Sterling Manufacturing Company, Inc. · Inventors: Elsten, Stanley E.
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Apparatus for removing meat from the drumsticks of poultry, such as turkeys and chickens, utilizes aligned tandem cylinders, the first of which urges the second along a guided path, the second carrying a centering cone pusher thereon for receiving the meat end of the drumstick axially thereinto. Transversely moving gates engage the drumstick about the hock knuckle end and the centering cone upon, moving forward under the force exerted by the first cylinder against the second cylinder, pushes the hock knuckle end through and past the closed gates. This places extreme tension on the tendons between the gates and where they are attached to the hock knuckle, causing the tendons to break while …
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- Filed September 12, 1990 and granted May 24, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 12, 2010.
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