Patent ID: 7104879

Claim:
An automatic boning system for an upper half body of a slaughtered fowl, the system comprising: a transfer body; attachment cones mounted to the transfer body, each for receiving an upper half body of the slaughtered fowl; and at least first, second, and third stations adjacent to the transfer body, wherein the transfer body is advanceable intermittently stepwise position each of the attachment cones at each of the stations to allow the half body to be processed at each station, wherein the first station is for attaching the half body, with the breast skin and side skin thereof already removed, to one of the attachment cones, wherein the second station is for positioning the half body attached to the attachment cone to allow the half body to be rightly faced at each station to eliminate a need for a measuring station for measuring the inside size of the heads of left and right shoulder blades before cutting the tendon of the shoulder joint, and wherein the third station is for making an incision along the center of the back and shoulder, and cutting near the top of the shoulder.