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Abstract

A deboning device for separating bone (8) and meat (9) of an animal part (7) has a support system (5) for supporting at least one deboning unit (1) and moving the at least one deboning unit (1) from a loading position (3) for loading the animal part (7) to a deboning position (4) for deboning the animal part (7), the deboning unit (1) being provided to receive the animal part (7) in the longitudinal direction thereof, the deboning unit (1) involving a meat stripper device (2) with a meat stripper disc (21) made of a flexible material, the meat stripper disc (21) involving an aperture (22) for receiving the bone (8) in the longitudinal direction there through, the deboning unit (1) also involving a bone pusher assembly (10), the bone pusher assembly (10) being aligned with the meat stripper disc (21) and being slidably movable in the longitudinal direction of the animal part (7) so as to co-operate with the meat stripper disc (21) to displace the bone (8) in the longitudinal direction of the meat (9), at least part of the bone pusher assembly (10) being displaceable throughout the aperture (22) in the meat stripper disc (21), characterized in that the deboning device also has (a) a clamping apparatus to allow for a clamping of the animal part (7) within the deboning unit (1) in the longitudinal direction of the bone (8), the clamping apparatus involving the meat stripper device (2), the meat stripper device being provided to support a lower part of the animal part in cross direction of the bone, and a head part (13, 14) of the bone pusher assembly (10) facing the meat stripper disc (21), so as to clamp the animal part between the head part (13, 14) and the meat stripper device (2), (b) space around the animal part being open to allow the meat to be compressed in the course of the deboning operation, and (c) apparatus for retaining the bone after it has been displaced through the aperture of the meat stripper disc.

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