Beef carcass head-separating tool
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1. A carcass head-separating tool comprising:
- first and second blades, said first and second blades being movable with respect to each other from an open position to a closed position;
an actuator connected to said first and second blades to move said blades from said open position to said closed position;
each of said blades having a shear portion and a separating portion, said shear portions of said first and second blades being separated in said open position and being overlapped in said closed position so that shearing action takes place therebetween as said blades move from said open position to said closed position, said separating portions of said blades being in a facing, substantially in contact, unoverlapped relationship when said blades are in the closed position so that the portion of the carcass between said shear portions is sheared and the portion of the carcass between said separating portions is separated when said blades move to said closed position.
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Abstract
The head-separating tool is a pair of pivoted blades, each having two sections. The section closest to the pivot comprises a wedge on each blade positioned so that the wedges come together in nearly point-to-point contact to engage in the beef neck'"'"'s Atlas joint to separate the joint. The portions of the blade farther from the pivot are shears which overlap when closing to cut the soft neck tissue below the Atlas bone. The blades are power-actuated to disjoint at the Atlas joint with substantially no bone chipping.
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1. A carcass head-separating tool comprising:
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first and second blades, said first and second blades being movable with respect to each other from an open position to a closed position; an actuator connected to said first and second blades to move said blades from said open position to said closed position; each of said blades having a shear portion and a separating portion, said shear portions of said first and second blades being separated in said open position and being overlapped in said closed position so that shearing action takes place therebetween as said blades move from said open position to said closed position, said separating portions of said blades being in a facing, substantially in contact, unoverlapped relationship when said blades are in the closed position so that the portion of the carcass between said shear portions is sheared and the portion of the carcass between said separating portions is separated when said blades move to said closed position. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A carcass head-separating tool comprising:
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first and second blades, each of said blades having a pivot pin opening therethrough, a pivot pin engaged in said pivot pin opening so that said blades can be pivoted from an open position to a closed position; an actuator connected to said blades to rotate said blades about said pivot pin with respect to each other from the open position to the closed position; said blades each having a shearing portion and a separating portion, said shearing portion of said blades moving from a separated position in the blade-open position to an overlapped position in the blade-closed position so as to cause shearing of material therebetween when said blades move from the open position to the closed position; said blades each having a separating portion, said separating portion being located closer to said pivot pin than said shearing portion, the blade edges of said separating portions being straight and lying substantially parallel to each other and closely spaced from each other in the blade-closed position so that, when moving from the blade-open position to the blade-closed position, said shear portion of said blades causes shearing of material therebetween and said separating portion of said blades causes separation of material therebetween. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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