Method and an apparatus for processing a half pig carcass part hanging from a carrier

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PATENT NO 11388905
APP PUB NO 20220142184A1
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17605484

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A system and a method for separating a middle portion of a half pig carcass, hanging from an overhead conveyor in a carrier, by cutting between the hip bone and the chine bone (backbone) and optionally between the tail bone and the hip bone, the cut causing a middle portion of the half pig carcass part to be partly separated from the remaining half pig carcass part via gravity. Further cutting the connection between the middle part of the half pig carcass part along a curve along the muscle defining the ham cut to separate the middle portion from the rest of the half pig carcass part causing the ham part of the half pig carcass part to remain hanging in the carrier.

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MAREL MEAT B V3 HANDELSTRAAT 5831 AV BOXMEER NETHERLANDS

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Ebergen, Adriaan Lith, NL 4 1
Kranenbarg, Ronald 'S-Hertogenbosch, NL 4 1
Meerdink, Jan Johannes Ravenstein, NL 9 121
Van, Der Steen Franciscus Theodorus Henricus Johannes Megen, NL 18 104

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