Meat cutting apparatus

Details Meat cutting apparatus Meat cutting apparatus

1978-06-19

1981-01-27

Hornsby, Harvey C.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Means to treat food

Automatic control or time means

99489, 99491, 99538, 99567, 17 1R, 83365, 83370, B23Q 1500, B23Q 1514, B23Q 1522

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042468370

ABSTRACT:
The invention comprises an apparatus for automatically removing fat from a meat carcass. A sensing station includes a row of needle probes which can be inserted into the carcass and which produce an electric signal at a fat/lean interface. The position of this interface relative to a support is recorded for each probe in a memory unit, and the carcass is then passed to a cutting section where it is drawn over a knife blade. The height of the knife blade is adjustable by a servo-motor controlled from the memory unit, and as the carcass is pulled over the knife, information from the memory unit is progressively released to adjust the knife so that the cut through the carcass follows the previously-sensed fat line.

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patent: 3237664 (1966-03-01), Macy et al.
patent: 3249139 (1966-05-01), Runnells, Jr. et al.
patent: 3373787 (1968-03-01), Tands
patent: 3735247 (1973-05-01), Harker
patent: 4114492 (1978-09-01), Skidmore

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