Patents by Inventor Wilhelm H. Richert

Wilhelm H. Richert 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).

  • Patent number: 3965535
    Abstract: A machine for stripping the meat of precooked poultry legs from the connected leg and thigh bones. The legs are loaded on a horizontal auger conveyor and conveyed to a vertical chain conveyor which carries the legs longitudinally upwardly through a meat stripping mechanism. The stripping mechanism includes two horizontal discs rotating with their closely spaced peripheral stripping edges in opposition to engagingly strip the meat downwardly from the upwardly moving legs. A third horizontal disc rotating with its peripheral edge behind and sightly below the two opposed stripping edges assists in the stripping operation. The opposed stripping edges of the discs include cooperating recesses through which the knuckle joints and enlarged end joints of the legs freely pass. After being stripped, the bones are ejected from the chain conveyor by a rotating ejection rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Jo-Bi Farms, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Kaplan, Wilhelm H. Richert, John W. Trumblee