Patent ID: 7261629
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
1. A method of partially deboning a poultry wing separated from a poultry carcass, the wing having a primary segment with a bone extending longitudinally therethrough that was separated from a poultry carcass, a mid-wing segment having a pair of bones extending longitudinally therethrough that are joined at an elbow joint to the bone of the primary segment, and a tip segment joined at a tip joint to the bones of the mid-wing segment and extending away from the tip joint, and an inside surface that faced the carcass and an outside surface that faced away from the carcass, comprising: suspending the poultry wing from its tip segment at a position away from the tip joint at a protrusion in the tip segment, advancing the suspended wing along a processing path with the outside surface of the poultry wing facing one side of the processing path, as the wing is advanced: mid-wing segment of the wing laterally about an elbow guide positioned on the outside surface of the poultry wing until the elbow joint is opened,