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Thigh Bone Unloader
Tendon Cutting Station
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Manual Meat Trimming and Knee-Cap Remover Station
no longer required
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Drum Meat Scraping Station
Tendon Cutting Station
Automated J-Cutting Station
NEW!
automated Knee-Cap Remover
can now be added process
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3
2
9
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Drum/Thigh Bone Separation Station
Whole Leg or Drum Stick Hanging
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Drum Bone Unloader
Thigh Hanging Area
Flexibility | This new system is comprised of two separate machines, maximizing
NEW! automated Knee-Cap Remover
system flexibility. One machine removes the drumstick bone from either a whole leg or
just a drumstick. While the other machine removes the thigh bone from either the whole
leg or just an individual thigh. If orders call for just deboned drumstick or thigh meat
then one of the two machines can be bypassed and turned off depending on which
Anatomic whole leg
product is needed. This significantly saves on wear and tear and reduces maintenance
New Automated Knee-Cap Trimmer | manual trimming labor no longer required
Until now, the Foodmate leg deboning process required the knee-cap to be hand trimmed after the
cost.
leg is deboned. The knee-cap/cartilage remover by Foodmate, is a stand-alone machine to address
The machine’s exclusive concept and design produces high quality deboned dark
meat with minimum trim and inspection required. It removes the meat with low bone
content left in the meat, and leaves the pin bone on the drumstick. The innovative scrap-
staffing and over-trimming (yield) issues.
Anatomic thigh
The Knee-cap Remover module is placed directly behind the deboner which requires 2-3 hangers
er design gives the meat a hand-cut appearance and produces extremely high yields.
to load the thigh and drum bone where the meat is situated so it can pass by a series of blades to
OPTI-LTD’s all-mechanical design helps to keep cost of ownership low. The system is
cut the te