Poultry Breast Deboning Apparatus with V-Guides
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing poultry processing machines lack consistency in removing wings from the breast, resulting in varying amounts of muscle left on each wing due to simultaneous cutting under different conditions of weight and angle.
Innovation Solution
A poultry processing apparatus featuring elongated guides with moveable positioning bars and carts that guide and sever the wings from the breast, ensuring consistent orientation and cutting, utilizing a transport assembly with endless loop chains and moveable cutters to efficiently separate the wings from the breast.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If simultaneous cutting of both wings is used, then processing speed is improved, but cutting consistency deteriorates due to varying weight and angle conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the simultaneous cutting operation into separate sequential cutting steps for each wing. The breast is positioned between V-shaped guides that stabilize it, allowing each wing to be cut individually by separate cutting devices. This segmentation eliminates the variability caused by simultaneous cutting of both wings, ensuring consistent muscle removal while maintaining efficient processing through automated sequential operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual shoulder cutting is used, then adaptability to different carcasses is improved, but labor requirements and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs automated positioning systems with V-shaped guides and adjustable mechanisms that allow the machine to self-adjust to different carcass sizes and shapes. The guides automatically orient the breast and wings, and the cutting devices are positioned by the system itself without manual intervention. This self-service capability maintains adaptability to various carcasses while eliminating the time-consuming manual cutting process.
3Ease of operation
If conventional inclined guides with chains are used, then wing transport is simplified, but muscle consistency deteriorates due to varying cutting conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces V-shaped guides as intermediary structures between the transport chains and the cutting devices. These guides stabilize the breast and wings during transport, maintaining consistent orientation and positioning. The V-shaped configuration acts as a mediator that translates the simple chain transport motion into precise, consistent positioning for uniform cutting, thereby maintaining both ease of operation and muscle consistency.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus ensures consistent and efficient separation of wings from the breast, reducing muscle left on the wings and improving processing efficiency by guiding and cutting the wings in a controlled manner, resulting in improved product consistency and reduced manual intervention.
Implementation Method 1
The chains are driven by one or more prime movers, such as electric motors. As the chains propel the wings and connected portions up the inclined guides
Implementation Method 2
inclined, low-friction guides that the chains are mounted against
Data Source
AI summary
A poultry breast deboning apparatus and method for guiding a plurality of poultry combinations that have a breast and attached wings, the apparatus including a transport assembly with carts mounted to a drive system. Each of the carts has an opening to receive one of the wings of each combination. Moveable cutters are disposed adjacent the transport assembly for seating against the carts for severing tissue connecting the wings and the breast. Moveable bars are biased to urge the wings into the cart openings.