Patent ID: 6059648
Filing Date: 2000-05-09
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
An automatic deboning method for an upper half of a poultry carcass, comprising a series of the steps of: feeding and mounting a work which is an upper half of a poultry carcass; performing a preliminary process on the mounted work; severing a shoulder joint of the work which has been subjected to the preliminary process; then stripping breast meat; subsequently removing white meat; and then discharging a skelton, whereinin the step of feeding/mounting a work, the lower surfaces of scapula heads of shoulder joints of the work are set on a reference horizontal plane and the work is fixed so as to assume a right facing direction;in the preliminary process step, a measuring/storage step for measuring on specific portions of the work in a width direction thereof in order to automatically cope with individuality of the work is provided;in the step of severing a shoulder joint, a cutter insert position in cutting of outward positioned tendons, leftward/rightward movement positions of both end tips of a caput humeri press plates in cutting of inward positioned tendons, and a horizontal cutter insert position are computed and set based on the measured value;in the step of stripping breast meat, a step of severing breast is provided for separating the breast meat as a branched step of the breast meat stripping step, and whereinthe whole steps constitute a circulation system, in which process flow is automatically returned back to the work feeding/mounting step after the skelton discharging step is completed.