US 12,201,119 B2
Method and apparatus for removing skin from animal parts
Robert Steve Sosebee, Ball Ground, GA (US)
Assigned to Foodmate US, LLC, Ball Ground, GA (US)
Filed by Foodmate US, LLC, Ball Ground, GA (US)
Filed on Dec. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/392,851.
Application 18/392,851 is a continuation of application No. 18/102,806, filed on Jan. 30, 2023, granted, now 11,882,842.
Application 18/102,806 is a continuation of application No. 17/190,526, filed on Mar. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,570,999, issued on Feb. 7, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,996, filed on Mar. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0122189 A1, Apr. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. A22C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 21/0092 (2013.01) [A22C 21/0007 (2013.01); A22C 21/0053 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of removing skin from meat of animal parts, comprising:
conveying the animal parts along a path of travel;
moving the animal parts through a skinning station;
wherein the skinning station comprises at least one pair of stacked skinning rolls positioned along the path of travel;
as the animal parts move through the skinning station, urging each animal part into contact with the skinning rolls such that a portion of the skin of each animal part is captured between the skinning rolls; and
pulling the skin from the animal parts;
wherein the skinning rolls are oriented at a downwardly sloping angle with respect to the path of travel such that the skin is of each animal part is pulled in a substantially straight downward motion and away from the meat of each animal part by the skinning rolls as the animal parts continue to move forward along the path of travel.