Patent ID: 9295265
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: A22C

Claim Text:
1. Device for removing wing tips from carcass parts of slaughtered poultry, in which a carcass part comprises at least part of a rib cage and at least one wing, the wing comprising: an upper wing member with the humerus bone, extending between the shoulder and the elbow joint; a lower wing member with the radius and ulna bones, extending between the elbow joint and the wing tip joint, a wing tip segment comprising wing tip bones, which is connected via the wing tip joint to the lower wing member, which device comprises: a conveyor comprising a conveyor path and at least one carrier which is adapted to carry a carcass part, along which conveyor path the at least one carrier is movable in a conveying direction, a wing tip processing station which is disposed along the conveyor path and to which a carcass part is fed by the conveyor, in which wing tip processing station the carcass part is processed while the carcass part is being carried by the carrier, wherein the wing tip processing station comprises a wing tip cutter adapted to remove the wing tip segment from the lower wing member, a set of multiple wing guides for guiding and positioning one wing so as to define the position of the lower wing member, the wing tip joint and the wing tip of said one wing at the wing tip cutter, the set of wing guides comprising: characterized in that the lower wing member guide comprises two guide members defining a slit between them in which the lower wing member is received, wherein at least one of the guide members is biased towards the other guide member, allowing for variations of the width of the slit, such that—at the wing tip cutter—the guide members clampingly engage the lower wing member with the radius and ulna bones being positioned one behind the other, seen in the conveying direction, thereby defining the orientation of the lower wing member and of the wing tip segment at the wing tip cutter.