Patent ID: 9033774
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: A22C,B25J

Abstract:
1. A device for conveying bone-in meat which raises the bone-in meat from an arm part or a thigh part of a livestock carcass from a horizontally placed state and moves the bone-in meat to a clamp capable of suspending the bone-in meat and going around an endless track, comprising: a guide member which defines a groove configured to convey the suspended bone-in meat; a robot arm; and a hooking unit which is attached to the robot arm, and cooperates with the robot arm to raise the bone-in meat from the horizontally placed state and carry the bone-in meat to the guide member, wherein the hooking unit includes: two hooking members each having a belt-like main body part, a blade-like pointed end provided at one end of the main body part, and a barb provided on a first side of the main body part to be continuous with the pointed end; a support mechanism which supports the hooking members such that the hooking members are in parallel with each other with an elastically changeable interval therebetween, and are rotatable about rotation axes along longitudinal axes of the main body parts; and a rotation drive mechanism which rotates the hooking members about the rotation axes, and the robot arm is configured to stick the pointed ends of the hooking members into a tip part of the bone-in meat in the horizontally placed state such that a bone in the tip part is pinched.