Abstract: A poultry breast de-boning machine adapted to insertably receive and radially transport in securely supportable positioning retention respectively upon one of an arcuately spaced plurality of mechanically identical truncated conical mandrel stations thereof a succession of forward bilateral poultry carcass sections for subsequent concurrently accomplished sequentially combined step-wise manual and automated mechanical removal of breast fillets therefrom by a method embodying first a mechanical clamping of the respective wings in a carcass section torso-lateral distended disposition preparatory to completion of sequential manually incised cuts made to the respective wing-to-torso shoulder joint connecting points to thereby facilitate initiation and completion of automated mechanical wing-clamped downward pull-peel separation of the wings and interconnected breast fillets therewith in delivery from such carcass sections a separated and substantially bone-fragment free set of joined breast fillets with wings the

Abstract: A poultry processing machine for cutting up poultry carcass sections comprising a breast with back and wings attached wherein the sections are manually positioned onto a conveyor spike and transported past various severing stations the spike being angularly and horizontally adjustable and having a stop thereon for properly locating the carcass section, guide elements for first orienting the wings into an extended position and thereby disjointing the shoulder joint whereby shielded rotary knives sever through the joint to remove the wing sections while leaving the breast meat intact, splitting the breast, next using spaced rotary blades for removing the backbone and thereafter alternatively cutting the back transversely of the backbone, the machine being capable of being selectively set to make various cuts.

Abstract: A poultry leg/back processor wherein backs with legs and thighs attached are manually placed onto a conveyor, second conveyor means of displacing the thigh-legs outwardly from the back, severing means for severing the skin-tissue-tendon at the crotch between the thigh-legs and the back, displacing each thigh-to-back section crotch juncture point by a vertically rotary displacement of each thigh-leg section to an elevated position, and while maintaining the thigh-leg sections in said elevated position relative to the back, moving said back relative to said thigh-leg sections to effect progressive separation of said thigh-leg sections from said back without bone therein.

Abstract: A single station anatomical section de-boning machine, operable by one individual, which machine is comprised of a compound multiple-acting piston driven longitudinal cam activated to cycle and operate adjustably pre-set micro-switches upon manual oriented operator insertion of an elongated anatomical section into the operational head de-boning assembly depressably against a machine plunger trigger thereof, wherein the anatomical section for deboning processing is characterized by having a centrally-extending meat-encased bone member with joint protuberances at either longitudinal end thereof, to thereupon mechanically accomplish by high-speed sequential cycling of the compound multiple-acting piston driven longitudinal cam cooperatively with the pre-set micro-switches in the functioning of a cooperative toggle-acting gripper blade to closably engage and hold the anatomical section for pivotal closing immediately thereafter of shaped cooperative meat cutting and stripping blades to initiate and accomplish pri

Abstract: A poultry back processing machine improvement modification assembly comprised of the combined mechanical assembly of a configured water slide infeed trough into which poultry back members for mechanically automatic interior surface fatty tissue and kidney removal processing are manually positioned in a sequential series for safe and efficient delivery thereof to the processing machine conveyor, a laterally spaced set of longitudinally disposed angularly downward positioned bar members to guide the respective depending flank sections of the poultry back members into a distended flank configuration for improved mechanical access to the interior back member surfaces, a laterally spaced set of laterally outward angled longitudinally extending opposingly outward rotating interior poultry back member fat removal and flank section spreading screens, longitudinally followed by a set of laterally spaced stationary blades positioned to sever the respective kidney retaining membranes interior of each back member for imm

Abstract: A de-boning machine having a plurality of similar operational heads respectively designed to receive and mechanically engage a centrally-extending elongated meat-encased bone member characterized by having a single shaft and at the respective longitudinal ends thereof a ball or a socket structure comprising part of a ball-and-socket joint, exemplary of which would be the bone in a chicken thigh or the like, and thereafter by a sequential camming activation of cutting and peeling blades of the respective operational heads, while the heads are being operationally driven, automatically effect an annular severing of the encasing meat about the elongated bone shaft at that end thereof immediately interior of the socket structure, and then initiate a longitudinal removal of the encasing meat from the bone shaft by inversely peeling the encasing meat upon itself along the bone shaft length, then moving the peeled meat around the ball structure at the opposite end of the elongated bone shaft, after which the meat ret

Abstract: A machine in which eviserated dressed poultry carcasses from which leg shanks have been removed from the legs are mounted upon a conveyor by clamping member thereon which is driven to move each carcass through all separating stations of the machine to sequentially and automatically remove (1) the wing tips from the intermediate wing sections, (2) the intermediate sections from the wing stubs, (3) the wing stubs from the vertebrae (back), (4) the whole breast from the vertebrae, and (5) the thighs and legs from the vertebrae in a manner to also remove the "oyster" from the vertebrae, whereby the tail and vertebrae are removed from the machine to complete the dismemberment of the carcass into all the normal commercially available pieces.

Abstract: A machine designed to automatically section poultry breast members by means of reciprocally operated rotating circular knife blades which respectively engage and selectively section a poultry breast member indexed to and clampably held in cutting position at the respectively selective knife stations in one of three ways; a two-way cut comprised of a single longitudinal severing of a poultry breast member into two halves, or a three-way cut comprised of an initial keel cut of the breast member at one knife station followed by a longitudinal severing into halves of the remainder of the poultry breast member at another knife station, or a four-way cut comprised of an initial transverse severing of the poultry breast member followed by a longitudinal cut at yet another knife station of the two laterally severed breast member sections into halves.

Abstract: A poultry processing machine adapted to remove skin from certain parts of poultry, such as necks, thighs and breasts by arranging the same for passage along a substantially uniformly diminishing channel defined by the upper portions of a pair of rollers having spiral configurations thereon, guiding and feeding the pieces of poultry longitudinally along said channel, and the spiral configuration on the rolls engaging the skin on said pieces in a manner to pull the same therefrom in substantially intact condition from the pieces, and separately discharging the removed skins and pieces of poultry adjacent the exit end of the machine.

Abstract: A machine designed to remove skin from the backs of poultry automatically and mechanically by conveying the back carcass members sequentially through a machine having processing stations operable in sequence to sever the kidney retaining membranes and remove the kidneys by vacuum; position the tail for mechanical maceration and removal by a set of coarse intermeshing rotating helical gear members; and, macerate and remove the skin from the back carcass member by a second set of intermeshing rotating helical gears of finer pitch than the first set, followed by the back carcass members, free of skin, are discharged to a collection receptacle.