Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Spit or impaling type
Patent
1999-06-25
2000-12-19
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Spit or impaling type
99421H, 99443C, A22C 1700, A22C 1702, A47J 3704
Patent
active
061614718
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Summary of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of the shaping and processing of food products.
For the industrial production of kebabs, the use of machines specially designed to achieve this result is very well known. Basically, most known machines employ a container of general a parallel-piped shape in which the different layers of meat and/or vegetables are laid on top of each other. The four vertical faces of the container are slotted to allow the passage of cutter blades. The lid and/or the base of the container are pierced to allow the insertion, by automatic or other means, of wooden sticks, usually by means of an appropriate skewering device.
The skewering and cutting devices, as such, may take different forms. For example, the skewering device may be of the type described in patent FR 2535169, which uses a system of the different layers of meat and/or vegetables, or of the type described in European patent 0278879, which uses a system of tubes into which the wooden sticks are inserted.
The cutting device may be of the type described in patent FR 9010227. The operations of skewering, on the one hand, and cutting, on the other, may be carried out at the same station or at different stations. The cutting of the different layers of ready-skewered meat and/or vegetables is of course done in two perpendicular planes, so as to make kebabs. For this purpose, either two cutting devices are set at an angle of 90.degree. to each other to make the two perpendicular cuts in succession, or the machine uses a single cutting station, in which case the container is pivoted through 90.degree. so that the two perpendicular cuts can be made.
From this basic concept for producing kebabs industrially, a number of different solutions have been proposed to automate the whole production process from loading the container to its unloading.
An example of this is the teaching of patent FR 2574252 which describes an installation for the automated manufacture of kebabs. In essence, this installation comprises a certain number of stations arranged in line at regular intervals, in combination with a horizontal conveying device. This horizontal conveying device brings the containers one after the other, in succession, to four workstations, specifically a piercing station, a stick inserting station, a stick driving station in which the sticks are driven into the different layers of meat and/or vegetables, and lastly a cutting station. The method of transfer of the containers past each of the workstations necessitates a large amount of floor space.
This type of machine, in which there is linear transfer of the containers past the various workstations is also found in patent FR 2668895, which also relates to a machine for the preparation of kebabs. This machine comprises, in succession, an entrance station, a skewering station, a cutting station, a station in which the contents of the containers are discharged or demolded, and an empty container unloading station. In this machine, skewering takes place in a horizontal plane by means of a system of prepiercing rods and tubes. The cutting station comprises a plurality of vertically arranged blades that fit into the different slots of the container arranged in a horizontal plane. In addition, at the cutting station, the container is fixed to means capable of pivoting it through 90.degree., in order that the two perpendicular cuts can be made.
As indicated, the transfer of the containers to the various workstations is done in a linear manner. In other words, once again, this technical solution does not provide a compact machine capable of automatic skewering of the kebabs.
The purpose of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems in a simple, reliable, efficient and logical manner.
The object of the present invention is to automatically produce kebabs of meat and/or vegetables threaded in particular on wooden sticks, the objective being to integrate within a small and compact space, as opposed to any linear transfer
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patent: 4837895 (1989-06-01), Emsens
patent: 4842181 (1989-06-01), Walser
patent: 5109757 (1992-05-01), Dolle
patent: 5127319 (1992-07-01), Dolle
patent: 5161447 (1992-11-01), Emsens
patent: 5740722 (1998-04-01), Emsens
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