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Abstract

To provide a deboning apparatus which can treat a ' '-shaped boned dark meat composed of upper leg dark meat portion and lower leg dark meat portion, so as to decompose the dark meat into meat and bone. The apparatus has a straightening device for straightening a ' '-shaped boned dark meat, a first conveyor device for conveying the straightened boned dark meat along a predetermined path; a plurality of bone spaced bone pressing members arranged along the path of convey by the first conveyor device; a scoring device disposed at an intermediate portion of the path of convey by said first conveyor device and having jetting nozzles for jetting pressurized water so as to score the dark meat along the bone, a separation device disposed adjacent to but spaced from the terminal end of the first conveyor device and capable of decomposing the boned dark meat into meat and bone by jets of pressurized water, a second conveyor device for conveying bone separated by the boned dark meat by the separation device, and a plurality of spaced second bone pressing members arranged along the path of convey by the second conveyor device.

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First Claim