Patent ID: 7198565

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 the upper half body of the slaughtered fowl; stations adjacent the transfer body for processing the half body; and a pre-processing station adjacent to one of the stations for processing the half body, wherein the transfer body is advanceable intermittently stepwise to position each of the attachment cones at each of the stations to allow the half body to be processed at each station, wherein the one station is for attaching the half body to one of the attachment cones, and wherein the pre-processing station is located adjacent to the one station and includes a section for making incisions to the back of the half body, a section for scraping the skin of the half body, and a section for transferring the half body stripped of skin to the attachment cone at the one station.