Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means
Patent
1994-06-24
1995-07-11
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
425135, 425149, 425150, 425350, 426513, 452174, A22C 700, A23P 100
Patent
active
054319358
ABSTRACT:
A method and machine for compressing a bacon slab are disclosed. The machine comprises a frame with a support surface having front, rear and opposite side edges. Separate hydraulic actuated pressure elements are mounted on the frame adjacent at least the rear and opposite side edges of the supporting surface. A second hydraulic fluid pressure element is mounted on the frame over the support surface. Fluid pressure sensing elements and displacement and measuring means are on each of the first and second pressure elements. A computer circuit is operatively connected to the first and second pressure elements, the fluid pressure sensing elements, and the linear displacement and measuring elements. The computer circuit includes a control to move the first and second pressure means to measure the length, width and height of the bacon slab by moving those components into contact with the bacon slab. The control has imposed thereon the dimensions of a slab having a predetermined package size, a maximum pressure to which the bacon slab can be compressed, and a calculation circuit to compute the amount of compression required to compress the bacon slab to that package size.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3114644 (1963-12-01), Peterson
patent: 5364302 (1994-11-01), Shibata et al.
Townsend Engineering Company
Yeung George
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