Patents by Inventor Everett T. Conaway

Everett T. Conaway has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Poultry de-feathering apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6918825
    Abstract: Apparatus for de-feathering (i.e. picking or plucking) poultry. More particularly, picking apparatus employing a plurality of elongated picking elements which are resistant to cracking and/or micro-poring, and which are preferably flexible and/or bendable and which are of sufficiently low mass such as to decrease poundage yield loss (e.g. decrease fat loss and poultry wing damage). In some embodiments, apparatus is provided having a plurality of filaments rotatable about an axis for removing feathers from a poultry carcass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Inventor: Everett T. Conaway
  • Poultry deskinning apparatus
    Patent number: 5186680
    Abstract: In a chicken deskinning device a pair of rollers is provided whereby one may be pivoted with respect to the other for defining a gap therebetween. The rollers terminate in a pair of blocks, each of which has an open end to allow the passage of chicken skin past the rear of the roller bearing blocks. A second set of rollers may be employed beneath the first set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1993
    Assignee: Norma L. Conaway
    Inventors: Everett T. Conaway, Norma L. Conaway
  • Poultry pinning and de-hairing machine
    Patent number: 4282632
    Abstract: Equipment for pinning and de-hairing poultry by free form inflect engagement therewith of a plurality of flexible fingers; elongated columnar members for supporting the flexible fingers; and a machine for rotatably supporting the elongated columnar members and the flexible fingers thereof for free form inflect engagement with poultry carcasses, as they move along a poultry processing line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1981
    Inventor: Everett T. Conaway