Patent ID: 7374478

Claim:
An apparatus for producing selected portions from a piece of poultry breast meat, the apparatus comprising; a) a rotatably mounted, substantially circular cylindrical product holder having a cylindrical outer surface with a plurality of circumferentially spaced cavities formed therein, each of said cavities being for receiving a first portion of a poultry breast for travel of the poultry breast along a substantially circular path of travel defined by the outer surface of said product holder; b) means for pressing said poultry breast into one of said cavities and urging and holding said first portion in said cavity when said poultry breast is along at least a part of the path of travel, said pressing means including an arcuate surface spaced a selected distance from the outer surface of the product holder; c) cutting means disposed in the path of travel between said arcuate surface of said pressing means and the outer surface of said product holder to engage said poultry breast and separate the first portion contained in said cavity from a remaining portion of said poultry breast outside said cavity; d) wherein each of said cavities has an arcuate bottom wall and boundary walls extending from said bottom wall and said walls are configured to inhibit movement of a rearward region of the first portion rearwardly relative to the path of travel upon engagement of the poultry breast with said pressing means.