US 12,465,058 B2
Method and device for processing a carcass-part of slaughtered poultry
Ferdinand Allard De Vos, Oostzaan (NL); Michael George Lourentius Koopman, Oostzaan (NL); Marcel Verhagen, Oostzaan (NL); Pieter Willem Vonk, Oostzaan (NL); and Jeroen Hermanus Wijtten, Oostzaan (NL)
Assigned to Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V., Oostzaan (NL)
Filed by Meyn Food Processing Technology B.V., Oostzaan (NL)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/880,309.
Claims priority of application No. 2028907 (NL), filed on Aug. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0042295 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. A22C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 21/0069 (2013.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for processing a carcass-part of slaughtered poultry in a processing line, the carcass-part supported on a carrier that is movable in the processing line, the carcass-part including wing-joints, coracoids, a wishbone embodied with two legs that merge into each other at an acute angle in a wishbone head, a keelbone, at least one membrana or ligament connecting at least to the wishbone, and meat including inner and outer fillets, the device comprising:
a tool for cutting the membrana and removing of the wishbone from the carcass-part, the tool comprising
a primary knife;
two secondary knifes arranged on opposite sides of the primary knife to disconnect the wishbone from the at least one membrana or ligament while retaining the meat on the carcass-part; and
a tertiary knife positioned or positionable adjacent to the two secondary knifes on a side of the secondary knifes opposite to the side where the primary knife is positioned or positionable so as to define a cage for trapping at least part of the wishbone head in the cage delimited by the primary knife, the two secondary knifes and the tertiary knife.