Patent ID: 8764525

Claim:
Poultry neck meat harvester for mechanized harvesting of neck meat from a slaughtered, deheaded, and eviscerated poultry body comprising a carcass part having at least part of the rib cage and part of the meat which is naturally present thereon and comprising a neck portion with neck vertebrae and at least part of the meat which is naturally present thereon, wherein the neck meat harvester is adapted to be arranged along the path of a poultry body conveyor having at least one product carrier embodied to support a poultry body and to convey said poultry body in a direction of conveyance, wherein the poultry neck meat harvester comprises: one or more neck positioning devices, each adapted to receive and position the poultry neck portion of a poultry body that is supported by a product carrier of the poultry body conveyor, a neck conveyor comprising the one or more neck positioning device, said neck conveyor being adapted to convey each neck positioning device in a manner that is synchronized with a product carrier so as to allow to receive—at a receiving position—the poultry neck portion whilst the poultry body is supported by the product carrier of the poultry body conveyor, a neck meat cutting member adapted to cut loose the neck meat from the neck vertebrae whilst the neck portion is received and positioned by the neck positioning device.