Patent ID: 9572355
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: A22B,A22C

Claim:
1. Method of deboning animal thighs for separating and collecting meat therefrom, including automated individual processing steps of: grasping a thigh bone of an animal thigh at a hip knuckle in a receiving slot of a bone holder; blocking the receiving slot of the bone holder to prevent the thigh bone from escaping from the receiving slot; cutting tissue of the animal thigh near the hip knuckle; pushing a portion of the meat near the hip knuckle partially away from the hip knuckle in a direction of the knee knuckle; engaging the thigh bone adjacent the bone holder with a meat stripper; moving the bone holder and meat stripper away from one another in a direction substantially coextensive with the longitudinal extent of the thigh bone; allowing the meat stripper to pass at least partially over the knee knuckle; cutting tissue adjacent the knee knuckle of the thigh bone to release the meat from the thigh bone; and collecting the meat released from the thigh bone.