Improved Device for Drawing the Sinews from the Legs of Poultry, Game, and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 23rd Apr., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Drawing the Sinews from the Legs of Poultry,
Game, and the like.
We ROBERT CHARLES RINGER, of Bridge Street Bishops Stortford in the
County of Hertfordshire Naturalist and ALFRED JOHN BARNES of 5, Clerkenwell
Road in the County of Middlesex, Managing Director of a Public Company, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The object of our invention is to provide an improved device for drawing the
sinews from the legs of poultry, game, and the like, and in carrying it into practice
we provide a base preferably of longitudinal form having formed therein in the
direction of its length a slot or slots. We now mount in suitable bearings at each
end of the base before described a spiral screw one half of which is formed with a
right handed thread and one half with a left handed thread.
To one end of this screw is fixed a crank or handle for the purpose of turning
same. We provide two blocks of metal or other suitable material having formed
or fixed on each of them a bifurcated piece adapted to receive the claw or knee of
the bird or the like.
These two pieces are adapted to slide in the slot formed in the base before
described. and they are so connected to the right and left handed screw as to travel
away from one another when the crank is turned in one direction and towards one.
another when it is turned in the opposite direction.
Referring to the accompanying drawing which shows a side elevation of our
improved apparatus A represents the base B the slot therein shown in dotted lines.
Cthe screw, of which e is the right handed portion and d the left handed portion ;.
D and D' are the two blocks sliding in the groove or slot Band E and E are the
two bifurcated pieces before described. F is the crank or handle.
The action of the apparatus is as follows. The leg of the bird or the like from
which the sinews are to be drawn being previously broken somewhere midway
between the claw and the knee the claw placed between the bifurcated piece E
and the knee between the piece E the crank is then turned with the result that the
two blocks D, D' are forced away from each other in the direction of the arrows
thus drawing out the sinews from the leg.
We may find it desirable to make one of the bifurcated pieces stationary and
the other one to travel to and from it instead of both being moveable and it will be
seen that we may vary the details without departing from the spirit of our invention..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
First In apparatus for drawing the sinews from the legs of poultry game and
the like. One use of a base such as A and a screw such as C adapted to move.
one, two, or more bifurcated pieces such as shown substantially as herein described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Second-The combination of parts constituting our improved apparatus for-
drawing the sinews from the legs of poultry game and the like substantially as.
herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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R. C. RINGER.
ALFRED J. BARNES..