Patent ID: 7435167

Claim:
A carcass transfer unloader station comprising: an unloader assembly having a roller chain assembly including and endless roller chain supported by a frame where the endless roller chain has a top run having an upstream top run portion and a downstream top run portion and said top run is disposed proximate an overhead shackle conveyor having a substantially level hock line along a path of conveyance; and an unloader member attached to the roller chain and extending toward the hock line to a distal end of the unloader member having an unloader shackle attached thereto, where said downstream top run portion is elevated above the upstream top run portion, whereby said unloader shackle rises above the hock line from below the hock line as the unloader shackle transverses along the downstream top run portion thereby operable to engage, retain and lift a hock of a leg quarter out of the shackle.