Patent ID: 8070567

Claim:
A method of de-boning a bone laden meat hanging with an end part of unconcealed part of the bone clamped with a clamping device by lifting up the bone laden meat in a state in which the bone laden meat is pinched under the end part by a meat separator having a set of meat scraper plates which are biased to elastically pinch the bone of the bone laden meat below an ankle part following change of size of the bone as the bone laden meat is lifted up in order to scrape off the meat part of the bone laden meat, the method comprising: lifting up and rotating the bone laden meat so that a part of the meat including tendons are cut and scraped by spiral incision with a cutter located between a clamping part of the meat clamped with the clamping device and the meat separator caused by the rotation of the bone laden meat, and scraping off the remaining meat by the meat separator while allowing the meat separator to rotate in synchronism with the bone laden meat as the bone laden meat is further lifted up.