公开(公告)号：US11479419B2

公开(公告)日：2022-10-25

申请号：US16782358

申请日：2020-02-05

申请人： F.R. Drake Company

发明人： Andre G. Richards

IPC分类号： B65G47/00 ,  B65G47/71 ,  A22C21/00 ,  B25J11/00 ,  B25J15/00 ,  B65G47/90 ,  A22C21/06

摘要： An automated unloading machine for unloading cut and trimmed raw poultry meat pieces from an upstream poultry meat cutting machine. The automated unloading machine is operably associated with a feed conveyer configured to support the cut and trimmed poultry meat pieces provided by the meat cutting machine. The automated unloading machine comprises one of an exit conveyor movable in a second direction and a packaging machine, an electronic controller configured to receive and process position and orientation data of the poultry meat pieces located on the feed conveyer, and a robotic picking device operatively associated with the electronic controller and configured to pick the poultry meat pieces from the feed conveyer and place them onto one of the exit conveyor and the packaging machine so that the cut and trimmed poultry meat pieces are arranged on one of the exit conveyor and the packaging machine in a desired orientation.

公开(公告)号：US20230166921A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-01

申请号：US17990909

申请日：2022-11-21

申请人： F.R. Drake Company

发明人： Andre G. Richards ,  Benjamin Oslund ,  Maksim Kirichun

IPC分类号： B65G47/14 ,  B65G47/82 ,  B65G43/08

CPC分类号： B65G47/1407 ,  B65G47/82 ,  B65G43/08 ,  B65G2203/0208 ,  B65G2811/095 ,  B65G2203/0283 ,  B65G2201/0202

摘要： The present disclosure is directed to devices for manipulating meat pieces and methods therefore. In one form, a device comprises a chute, a conveyor, a backstop, and a paddle wheel. The chute is configured to hold pieces of a food product, and the conveyor is configured to receive pieces of the food product released from the chute. The first backstop is positioned above the conveyor and comprises a plate that is configured to align pieces of food product received at the conveyor into a single row. The paddle wheel is positioned above the conveyor downstream from the first backstop and is configured to manipulate the single row of pieces of food product traveling along the conveyor and cause only a single layer of pieces of food product to discharge from the conveyor.