US 12,342,831 B2
Apparatus and method for detaching meat strips located on a breastbone crest of a poultry carcass
Adrian Schulze, Lübeck (DE); and Andreas Landt, Lübeck (DE)
Assigned to Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH + Co. KG, Lübeck (DE)
Appl. No. 18/682,328
Filed by Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH + Co. KG, Lübeck (DE)
PCT Filed Jan. 27, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/051900
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 8, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/016671, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 16, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/EP2021/072400 (WO), filed on Aug. 11, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0000107 A1, Jan. 2, 2025
Int. Cl. A22C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 21/0069 (2013.01) [A22C 21/0053 (2013.01)] 50 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus configured and adapted for detaching meat strips, which are located on a breastbone crest of a poultry carcass, from poultry carcasses of slaughtered poultry bodies or parts thereof which are already freed from breast fillets, comprising:
a circulating conveyor having at least one holding apparatus with a support body for receiving and holding the poultry bodies or the parts thereof during transport by the apparatus in a transport direction T; and
at least one processing station along a conveying path of the conveyor, wherein one of the processing stations is configured as a detaching unit for detaching the meat strips from the breastbone crest;
wherein the detaching unit comprises a pre-detaching element and a detaching element, wherein the pre-detaching element configured and adapted to cut into the meat strip in a region of a breastbone horn of the breastbone crest which leads in the transport direction T and the detaching element is configured and adapted to grip and peel the meat strip off the breastbone crest.