Machine for cutting tongues, cheeks and belly flaps from fish he

Details Machine for cutting tongues, cheeks and belly flaps from fish he Machine for cutting tongues, cheeks and belly flaps from fish he

1992-04-28

1993-07-13

Little, Willis

Butchering

Carcass subdivision

While internally supported on a mandrel

452160, 452108, 452118, 452170, A22C 2514

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052268489

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for cutting tongues, cheeks and belly flaps from fish heads and for cutting apart jaws of fish heads. The fish head is mounted on a reinforced beam beneath a spiked chain which moves the head along the beam, first towards horizontal knives which cut the tongue from the head, and then to vertical knives which cut the cheeks and the belly flaps from the head. Over the tongue knives are jaw rods which hold the jaw up to the beam adjacent the tongue knives. Inside the beam is a stick which can be driven down from the beam to locate the tongue in a cutting position below the tongue knives. The head hits a sensor which activates a power source for the stick. The belly flaps are held up by belly flap rods, which lie beneath the collar bones and keep the belly flaps from the tongue knives. The cheeks and belly flaps are cut off with two vertical cheek knives. Behind the cheek knives, there is a vertical step on the belly flap rods which support the belly flaps while the knives cut the cheeks and belly flaps. The jaw is then cut apart with a jaw knife located on the beam. One of the jaws then falls down a sliding chute which moves the head up and off the beam and then falls into a vat for bones.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4442569 (1984-04-01), Brower et al.
patent: 4583265 (1986-04-01), Kristinsson
patent: 5098334 (1992-03-01), Molaug
patent: 5106334 (1992-04-01), Kristinsson

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