ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,852, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bettcher Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ohio).
"Poultry processing apparatus and method" was invented by David Bobby Ray (Gainesville, Ga.) and Thomas W. Reins Jr. (Dawsonville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A poultry processing apparatus for processing a poultry carcass with attached wings. The apparatus includes a shackle conveyor including a set of shackles. Adjacent shackles receive respective wings of a poultry carcass in a wing-receiving opening of the shackle to support the poultry carcass for movement along a shackle path of travel. A first cutting module is positioned adjacent a sec...