Fuente: WIPO "meat" A system and a method for separating a middle portion of a half pig carcass, hangingfrom an overhead conveyor in a carrier, by cutting between the hip bone and the chine bone(backbone) and optionally between the tail bone and the hip bone, the cut causing a middleportion of the half pig carcass part to be partly separated from the remaining half pig carcass partVia graVity. Further cutting the connection between the middle part of the half pig carcass partalong a curve along the muscle defining the ham cut to separate the middle portion from the restof the half pig carcass part causing the ham part of the half pig carcass part to remain hanging inthe carrier.