Poultry Bone Framework for Red Meat Appearance
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge lies in producing poultry-based food products that resemble red meat products, such as ribs or steaks, due to difficulties in obtaining and processing poultry bones with a similar appearance to red meat bones, as poultry bones are often discarded or hard to harvest in sufficient quantities with the desired shape and structure.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves harvesting and processing poultry bones, like the ulna or radius bones from poultry wings, stripping them of meat and skin, and using them as a framework to create bone-in poultry food products that mimic red meat products by surrounding them with processed poultry meat, which is then coupled to the bones through further processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If poultry bones are harvested and used to create bone-in poultry products, then the product appearance and structure resemble red meat products, but the difficulty of obtaining sufficient quantities of suitable poultry bones increases
Solution Approach 1:
The poultry carcass is divided into segments, with specific focus on harvesting bones from wings and legs. The wing bones (ulna, radius, humerus) and leg bones (femur, tibia) are separated and used as individual components to reconstruct bone-in products, making the bone harvesting process more systematic and efficient
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of discarding poultry bones as waste after meat removal, the invention recovers and utilizes these bones by stripping remaining meat and skin, cleaning them, and assembling them into bone-in poultry products that resemble red meat products in appearance and structure
2Stability of the object's composition
If poultry bones are stripped of meat and skin to create a clean framework, then the bones can be properly assembled into structured products, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Meat and skin are stripped from the bones before the bones are assembled into the final product structure. This preliminary preparation ensures that the bone framework is clean and ready for assembly, simplifying the overall manufacturing process by preventing contamination during assembly
Solution Approach 2:
The meat and skin are extracted and removed from the bones to create a clean bone framework. This extraction process isolates the bone component, allowing it to be properly assembled and structured without interference from remaining tissue
3Productivity
If processed poultry meat is coupled to the bone framework, then a complete bone-in product is formed, but the additional processing steps increase production time
Solution Approach 1:
The bone framework assembly and meat attachment processes are merged into an integrated manufacturing workflow. Bones are assembled into the desired structure, and processed poultry meat is coupled to the framework in a continuous process, improving overall production efficiency
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AI summary
A poultry food product and a method of making a poultry food product. The poultry food product comprises one or more bare poultry bones separated from the remainder of a poultry wing. Where the poultry food product includes the one or more bare poultry bones with a quantity of processed poultry meat surrounding and coupled to the bare poultry bones.