Abstract: Prepared parts of edible fowl, such as thighs of slaughtered chickens, are deboned by loading the parts in a plurality of pans (23) of a pan conveyor (22) with the lengths of the bones approximately parallel to one another extending across the direction of movement of the conveyor and moving the parts in series to a deboning station. Pusher (26) engages one end of the bone and urges each part along the length of the bone off its pan so that the other end of the bone engages centering cup (35) and is located in a predetermined position. Clamps (11 and 12) engage the other end of the bone and blades (19 and 20) also engage the other end of the bone, and the clamps pull the bone through the blades so that the blades remove the meat from the bone. The blades (19 and 20) and clamps (11 and 12) are mechanically connected to one driving means (15).

Abstract: Previously eviscerated poultry carcasses with wings and saddle removed are moved on a series of carcass carriers (20) along a processing path with protrusions (32, 33) extending into the wing sockets of the carcass to hold the carcass on the carrier. A series of meat removing implements (46, 47, 60, 61, 62, 96, 116, 118 and 119) separate the meat from the skeletal structures of the carcass as the carcasses are moved along the processing path.

Abstract: A worker hangs birds on a series of movable modules M by placing the hocks of previously slaughtered and eviscerated birds in the pair of forks 30 affixed to the support plate 29 of each module. The thighs are received in the pair of tiltable forks 31. As the modules are conveyed about the machine a mandrel 28/70 carried by each module moves down into the cavity of the bird to stabilize the bird, and the bird is moved with the module through several cutting discs 1-7 which cut the carcasses into sections. The modules are rotated to orient the bird with respect to the cutting discs, and the legs of the bird are stretched by the tiltable forks 31 as the leg joint is cut. The mandrel 28/70 has a slot 77 through which a blade 5 passes in bisecting the backbone and the breast with the bird backbone lodged in the slot.

Abstract: A worker hangs birds on a series of movable modules M by placing the hocks of previously slaughtered and eviscerated birds in the pair of forks 30 affixed to the support plate 29 of each module. The thighs are received in the pair of tiltable forks 31. As the modules are conveyed about the machine a mandrel 28 carried by each module moves down into the cavity of the bird to stabilize the bird, and the bird is moved with the module through several cutting discs 1-7 which cut the carcasses into sections. The modules are rotated to orient the bird with respect to the cutting discs, and the legs of the bird are stretched by the tiltable forks 31 as the leg joint is cut.

Abstract: A device for cutting slaughtered poultry in separate pieces. A bird is held by at least one radial processing device which is movable on a frame by a driving device which is provided with a processing arm, at the side facing the frame being provided with an adjustment mechanism which can reorient the processing device during the movement of the arm in a number of various positions of rotation with respect to the arm and a blocking mechanism which can fix the processing device in said positions of rotation, with a deblocking mechanism for unlocking the processing device, and said processing arm at the side facing away from the frame being provided with a stretching mechanism for holding the bird.