Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – By applying fluid
Patent
1989-05-19
1990-09-04
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
By applying fluid
17 25, 17 51, 99535, A23B 402, A22C 900
Patent
active
049534564
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention refers to a tool holder for a pickling machine in which on a pricking frame at least one row of take-up means is provided which are equal among each another end each of which is provided with a brine supply line, to which take-up means tools can be fixed at choice which are different among each other and are formed by kinds of pickling needles provided with brine channels, each tool having a connection head which can be tightly connected to the take-up means, which connection head fits for all tools into the take up means, the connection heads being provided with connection channels for the brine supply to each pickling needle, which channels can be connected to the brine supply line.
Such tool holders in modern pickling machines have the advantage that the pickling operation can be adapted to different kinds of meat and different sizes of the meat pieces. Some kinds of meat need a comparatively great amount of pickling brine so that strong pickling needles are used having a comparatively wide inner brine channel. Other kinds of meat, however, require a more tender pickling operation so that thinner needles are used which serve for the injection of less amounts of brine per time unit. At choice-connection by screwing of the connection heads of the several kinds of needles enables one to change from one kind of needles to another kind of needles and therefor from one kind of pickling operation to another kind of pickling operation, always with the same machine. Therefore, the machine can be used with only less alterations for a broad field of application. These installations are on the market.
It is also known to screw a plurality of needles to a common cross piece of a pickling machine, which cross piece serves for supplying the brine (FR-A No. 1,395,301).
On the other hand, machines are known in which knives are fixed to a frame member which is moved up and down, which knives stab into the meat. With such knives the meat can be tenderized by making cuts, what, for example, is desired for such kinds of meat which later on shall be used as steak meat, why such machines sometimes are also called "steakers". It is also know (FR-A-No. 1 2,032,012) to fixly provide needles and knives on a common carrier member which can be actuated by hand or automatically. Finally it is know within a hand-actuated apparatus (U.S. Pat. No. 3,581,651), to provide a plurality of knives on a screw cap which is screwed onto the end of a container for a treatment liquid which flows out through openings of the bottom of the screw cap.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention has at an object to still increase the said versatility of a pickling machine and to make the pickling machine with less effort also applicable to such kinds of meat for which--if desired in addition to a pickling operation--a tenderizing operation is required. With this, the alterations necessary therefor shell be practicable in an easy manner, quickly and reliably with less effort in operation. The invention solves this task by providing further connection heads for at choice-fixing to these take-up means, which connection heads carry on their bottom knives and/or combinations of needles and/or combinations of knives and needles, each connecting head being adapted to be plugged to the take-up means and having openings for the passage f brine only for the needles carried by this connection head, however is tight with respect to the brine supply line for the knives, a pull-of safety measure for the connecting head being provided, for example a serration plate engaging the connecting head from below and being provided with slots into which the needles or knives, respectively, enter. In this manner a pickling machine can be changed by few manipulations to a machine with which also or only a tenderizing of the meat should be done. Therefore, with on single machine following operations are possible: pickling alone, tenderizing or steaking, respectively, alone, pickling combined with tenderizing (steaking). Each one of these
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