Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – By stuffing or applying particulate material
Patent
1996-08-13
1998-06-23
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
By stuffing or applying particulate material
99486, 118 16, 118 24, A23L 100
Patent
active
057689849
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of The Invention
The object of this invention is a precision machine used to season fish, and which incorporates a control system that enables determining the proper amount of granulated material, with a high salt content, required along the body of the fish as a function of its profile and weight and which actuates the relevant regulation mechanisms applying the proper quantity of the product to each one the sections making up the body of the fish.
The machine is furthermore fitted with a product distribution system acting in such a way that the quantity of product applied upon the various fish sections is determined by the speed of a rotating horizontal roller that has lengthwise slots into which the salt mixture is introduced and from which said mixture is deposited onto the fish being displaced under the roller, and by the curved shapes of the roller slots, which match the profile of the fish.
2. Prior Art
It is already well known in the food preparation industry the salting process applied to foodstuffs in order to preserve the properties of the food items during the period of time between the moment they are processed until they are consumed. The method used is based on the uniform distribution of common salt upon the food item to be treated, being its food preserving character defined by the antiseptic properties of sodium chloride.
This salting procedure is a common practice in the fishing industry, where the fish caught is salted in order to maintain freshness.
The method currently used to season fish consists on the manual application of a coat of a granulated product with a high salt content upon the body of the fish, operation that is performed after the fish has been duly boned and cut in half. The operator then spreads upon the fish, using his/her hands, the product quantity that he/she considers appropriate as a function of the shape and size of the fish to be seasoned.
The proper performance of this operation requires an expert to apply the precise product quantity upon each one of the sections of the body of the fish, being the product quantity to be applied on its upper body different from that to be applied on its tail, as greater product quantities are to be applied on the thicker fish areas.
It is fairly complex to perform this operation manually with the precision required to guarantee optimum fish conservation conditions throughout its body, as the proper performance of this operation depends upon the skills of the operator.
The time employed for the seasoning of each fish varies depending upon the skills and experience of the person carrying out this type of work, being it impossible to guarantee the seasoning of every fish to the precisely required extent as a consequence of the different level of precision with which this operation is performed.
There is no knowledge of the current existence of any type of machine guaranteeing the control of the quantity of salted product required to be applied upon the body of the fish as a function of its body shape and volume.
The optimization of this fish seasoning procedure, by adopting a system that controls the parameters of influence and acts upon the means correspondingly used to regulate the quantity of product to be distributed, makes fully feasible the object of the invention herein proposed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This invention tries to solve the previously described problems using a precision fish seasoning machine fundamentally incorporating a displacement track on which slide the trays upon which the fish is placed, a salt distribution system, a tray weighing system and a system used to regulate and control the amount of high salt content product to be applied.
It is a continuous process machine on which the tray is displaced upon the frame using a pull chain, there being several trays placed at different positions along the assembly upon which different operations are performed as a function of the position of the tray along the tray guidance track at any given time.
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C.L.G. Inversiones, S.L.
Schwartz Robert M.
Simone Timothy F.
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