Patent ID: 8172653
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for automated cutting of the wings from poultry bodies, the poultry bodies including a breast, a neck attachment, a rear side, the wings including an end piece attached directly to the poultry body by a joint, a tip opposite the end piece, and a central piece between the end piece and the tip, comprising: a conveying means having at least one transport saddle for receiving and holding the poultry bodies and transporting them, with the breast facing upwards and with the neck attachment facing forwards in the direction of transport, through the apparatus along a separating device, wherein the separating device comprises several pairs of separating elements each arranged symmetrically on both sides of the conveying means, wherein the several pairs of separating elements comprise: wherein on each side of the conveying means is arranged a transport unit which is composed of a guide rail and a conveying chain and which extends from a region in front of the separating device in the direction of transport to a point behind the separating device and is constructed and designed for gripping and guiding the wings along the separating device, wherein the two transport units arranged symmetrically to the conveying means diverge in the direction of transport in such a way that the two wings of a poultry body are moved increasingly away from the poultry body during transport along the separating device, characterised in that the cutting blades of the third pair form a cutting station without a counter-support and each have a cutting edge which is constructed and designed to perform partial cuts leaving the end pieces of the wings on the poultry body, and in that the guide rails behind the separating device in the direction of transport have one recess, each, to increase the vertical distance between the guide rails and the conveying chain.