Patents by Inventor Bastiaan W.J.E.J. Drabbels

Bastiaan W.J.E.J. Drabbels 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).

  • Method and device for making an incision in the skin of a slaughtered animal, and for performing a subcutaneous operation
    Publication number: 20020028647
    Abstract: In a method and device for making an incision in the skin of the belly of a slaughtered animal which is provided with a vent opening produced by cutting out the vent, the skin is processed at a position near the bottom point of the breastbone of the animal, and an incision is made between the vent opening and said position. In order to support the skin during the skin processing operation, a supporting element is fitted subcutaneously through an opening in the skin. In a method and device for processing a slaughtered animal, prior to or during the evisceration of the carcass of the animal, tissue connections are broken between the belly skin and the viscera, in particular between the belly fat situated on the inside of the belly skin and the stomach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Adrianus J. van den Nieuwelaar, Cornelis D. van Harskamp, Bastiaan W.J.E.J. Drabbels
  • Method and device for making an incision in the skin of a slaughtered animal, and for performing a subcutaneous operation
    Patent number: 6312326
    Abstract: In a method and device for making an incision in the skin of the belly of a slaughtered animal which is provided with a vent opening produced by cutting out the vent, the skin is processed at a position near the bottom point of the breastbone of the animal, and an incision is made between the vent opening and said position. In order to support the skin during the skin processing operation, a supporting element is fitted subcutaneously through an opening in the skin. In a method and device for processing a slaughtered animal, prior to or during the evisceration of the carcass of the animal, tissue connections are broken between the belly skin and the viscera, in particular between the belly fat situated on the inside of the belly skin and the stomach.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Stork PMT B.V.
    Inventors: Adrianus J. van den Nieuwelaar, Cornelis D. van Harskamp, Bastiaan W.J.E.J. Drabbels
  • Method and device for processing slaughtered poultry, as well as conveyor member for use in such a method and device
    Patent number: 6152816
    Abstract: In a device and method for processing slaughtered poultry, the following steps are carried out: drawing the viscera package out of the carcass of the poultry; separating the viscera package from the carcass; conveying the viscera package in a viscera package conveyor member; conveying the carcass in a carcass conveyor member; and inspecting the viscera package and the carcass. The viscera package conveyor member and the carcass conveyor member are coupled together at least during the inspection. The viscera package conveyor member and the carcass conveyor member may form part of one combined conveyor member. Prior to the inspection, at least the intestines, and in particular the intestines and the gall bladder, are removed from the viscera package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2000
    Assignee: Stork PMT B.V.
    Inventors: Andrianus J. van den Nieuwelaar, Engelbert J. J. Teurlinx, Bastiaan W. J. E. J. Drabbels, Cornelis D. van Harskamp
  • Method and device for processing a cluster of organs from a slaughtered animal
    Patent number: 5549521
    Abstract: Method and device for separating one or more organs or a part thereof from a cluster of interconnected internal organs from a slaughtered animal, making use of a fixing device which is moved through an evisceration opening into the body of the slaughtered animal, in which method a part of the cluster is fixed with the aid of and relative to the fixing device, the connection between the organs and the body is broken, and the organs are taken out of the body. The fixing is maintained after the organs have been taken out of the body and until a separating operation has been carried out on one or more organs or a part thereof in a spatial orientation determined by the fixing. The fixing is achieved by clamping a part of the cluster. During the fixing, organs can be separated from the cluster of organs with the aid of guide elements, stripping elements, separating rollers, and cutting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Stork PMT B.V.
    Inventors: Adrianus J. van den Nieuwelaar, Petrus C. M. Janssen, Engelbert J. J. Teurlinx, Cornelius D. van Harskamp, Bastiaan W. J. E. J. Drabbels