| US 7,344,436 B2 | ||
| Apparatus for separating thigh meat and oyster meat | ||
| Hiroyuki Hayakawa, deceased, late of Koto-ku (Japan), by Katsuhiro Hayakawa, legal representative, ; and Koji Kido, Koto-ku (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Mayekawa Mfg. Co., Ltd., (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 15, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/611,418. | ||
| Application 11/611418 is a division of application No. 11/312829, filed on Dec. 20, 2005, granted, now 7,195,554. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0082596 A1, Apr. 12, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. A22C 17/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 452—135 | 7 Claims |
| 1. An apparatus for separating thigh meat from oyster meat, which is a small lump of meat connected to the thigh meat with
a membrane and to a white cap with a sinew, the white cap being an end of a thighbone of a work, which is a thigh portion
of an edible beast or fowl, the apparatus comprising:
a clamper for clamping the work to allow the thighbone to be swung during conveyance thereof; and
a guide-with-a-cutter device, which has a Y-shaped guide, a narrow slot extending along a conveying direction at a base part
thereof, downstream relative to the conveying direction from the Y-shaped guide, and a cutter,
wherein an open end side of the Y-shaped guide is directed toward upstream of the conveying direction, and
wherein the Y-shaped guide contacts the thighbone and swings the thighbone toward upstream of the conveying direction, the
white cap rides on the base part of the guide-with-a-cutter device while the sinew connecting the oyster meat to the white
cap is introduced into the narrow slot as the thighbone with the attached oyster meat hanging from the white cap under the
Y-shaped guide is conveyed, and the sinew is cut with the cutter to separate the oyster meat from the white cap.
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