Method and system for harvesting knee meat together with thigh meat from a poultry leg

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9808019
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15319783

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A method and a corresponding system for harvesting knee meat and thigh meat from a whole leg poultry product are disclosed. The method includes providing a leg product having a thigh, a drumstick, a knee and a transverse cut at the knee. The thigh and the drumstick are connected to each other and the knee cap is intact, creating a drumstick side cut plane and a thigh side cut plane, with the leg product suspended from a poultry product carrier, arranging it adjacent to a counter element, with the drumstick side cut plane facing the counter element, bringing a knee cap scraper in engagement with the leg product adjacent to the knee cap and the counter element with the leg product at the rear of the knee cap, moving the knee cap past the knee cap scraper while the counter element engages the leg product at the rear of the knee cap, therewith scraping knee meat from the knee cap while leaving the knee meat connected to the thigh, after the scraping step the knee meat and thigh meat being present on a first side of the knee cap scraper and the knee cap on a second side.

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  • MAREL STORK POULTRY PROCESSING B.V.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Annema, Heinze Gemert, NL 4 2
Claessens, Roger Pierre Hubertus Maria Nijmegen, NL 19 14
Drabbels, Richard Gerard Johan Venray, NL 4 8
Van, Den Heuvel Stefan Christianus Wilhelmus Martinus Oeffelt, NL 3 2

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