Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Automatic control or time means
Patent
1996-10-02
1997-09-09
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Automatic control or time means
99533, 99535, A22C 1700, A23L 131
Patent
active
056644884
ABSTRACT:
A meat injection machine has a fluid manifold with a plurality of fluid reservoirs, and a group of injection needles associated with each reservoir. Each needle is slidably mounted in a stripper tube which in turn is slidably mounted in the fluid manifold. A valve on the upper end of the stripper tube seats on a valve seat on the upper end of the needle. A stripper pad is mounted on the lower end of each stripper tube and slidably embraces the lower end of each needle. Each fluid reservoir has a fluid pressure regulator to adjust fluid pressure on each reservoir. The method of injecting fluid into meat entails weighing the meat product, injecting it with fluid, weighing the injected meat product, determining the ratio between these weights, comparing that ratio with a target ratio, and adjusting the time that the needles penetrate the meat product so that the next meat product will have its weight ratio adjusted towards the target ratio if a variance with the target ratio exists with respect to the first injected meat product.
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Simone Timothy F.
Townsend Engineering Company
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