Patent ID: 7198564

Claim:
A deboning system for deboning a picnic shoulder part of a meat block of a dressed carcass halved along the backbone while the meat block is suspended, the system comprising: a charging station for loading the meat block; a plurality of deboning stations for deboning the meat block; a bone discharging station; and a group of transfer means comprising a plurality of transfer oaths including fixed transfer paths, movable transfer paths, and an intermittent feeding means for pushing the meat block through said stations, wherein the meat block is suspended at each of said stations, wherein the movable transfer paths are provided in the deboning stations, said movable paths being movable to move the suspended meat block at each of the deboning stations on each of the movable transfer oaths to a respective deboning section provided in each of the deboning stations to perform respective deboning operation, wherein said intermittent feeding means intermittently pushes the meat block suspended from a preceding station to a succeeding station, and wherein said intermittent feeding means includes pushers for pushing the meat block from the preceding station to the succeeding station and a reciprocating mechanism for pushing and moving back the pushers from the succeeding station to the preceding station.