Patent ID: 6935942

Claim:
A device for removing fillets from eviscerated carcasses of poultry whose extremities have all been totally detached therefrom, comprising: at least one measuring device for measuring individual dimensions in three dimensions of an eviscerated poultry carcass, whose extremities have all been totally detached therefrom, from the outside of the carcass to find a starting position for loosening the fillets from the carcass, the measuring device comprising: a first element having means for detecting a length and height of a first body joint point, a second element having means for detecting a length and height of a second body joint point, wherein the first element and the second element are offset in a transport direction of the carcass, and a third element which is mounted behind the first and second elements and consists of two detecting parts having means for detecting a width of the first and second body joint points, respectively, at least one control unit, at least one scraping device, and means connecting the measuring device via the control unit to the at least one scraping device for the purpose of communicating poultry carcass measuring data to the scraping device, the at least one scraping device including a disc-like scraping element.