Abstract:
The invention discloses a system for processing bone product comprising at least a mincer and a comminuter (10), a method to operate such a system and a comminuter (10) for use in such a system and method.
Abstract:
An automated saw for high speed splitting of suspended carcasses, such as hog carcasses, through the backbone as the carcasses continuously move along a carcass rail includes a splitting station and a back roller station located on opposite sides of the carcass rail. The splitting station includes a splitting saw that can be driven in three directions, including horizontally towards a carcass to begin cutting, vertically down to make the cut and horizontally parallel to the carcass rail to match the speed of the moving carcass as the cut is made. A guide roller carried by the splitting station positions the backbone in a known position relative to the saw. The back roller station includes a back roller for positioning the carcass relative to the saw as the cut is made. The back roller is also movable in three directions, including horizontally in to contact the carcass, vertically down, and horizontally parallel to the carcass rail to match the motion of the saw. The back roller and saw are structurally independent, but are accurately driven to maintain the relative position of the saw and the back roller as the cut is made.
Abstract:
A carcass leg shearing apparatus adapted for mounting near a carcass rail. The apparatus includes a carcass leg engager for engaging the carcass legs and positioning the legs within a shearing region such that the carcass legs are sheared at the hock portions thereof. The leg shearing apparatus further includes a control system connected to position the shearing apparatus at a desired location relative to the carcass, position the carcass legs within the shearing region so that the carcass legs are sheared at the hock portions thereof, move the shearing blade from an open shearing position to a closed shearing position to shear the legs from the carcass, and position the shearing apparatus at a desired location prior to shearing off the legs of the next carcass on the carcass rail.
Abstract:
The disclosed machine is adapted to separate meat and other soft components from bone and other relatively hard components of meat, fish and other food materials, pieces of which are dumped into a hopper containing a pair of overlapping, oppositely rotating left and right hand feed screws for feeding the pieces into overlapping pump bores in a pump casing. The pump bores are provided with oppositely rotating left and right hand pump screws for pumping the pieces along the bores to develop pumping pressure, whereby the pieces are forced into a hollow separator casing having a tubular tapering separator screen with a multiplicity of perforations therein. A tapered pressure auger is rotatable in the screen for pressing meat and other soft components through the perforations while transporting bone and other hard components past the screen to a discharge device for discharging the hard components while maintaining pressure in the separator casing. The discharge device may grind up the hard components and discharge through a restricted annular orifice. The machine may include a pair of oppositely rotating, closely spaced disjointer screws of the same hand, disposed ahead of the feed screws, for disjointing neck bones and the like, while supplying the disjointed bones to the feed screws. The pump screws may have tapered exit ends affording increased clearance to reduce the buildup of pump pressure.
Abstract:
A press for separating flesh from bones in which a charge of bones with flesh attached is received in a chamber and a plunger moveable axially in the chamber compresses the bones and flesh to liberate from the bones flesh in the form of a paste which flows through restricted size passages to exit the chamber. Bones retained in the chamber during compression are discharged thereafer through a passage in a cover on the chamber which passage is selectively opened and closed by a valve associated with a cover.
Abstract:
An animal underbelly bone splitter preferably includes a base member, a bottom leg, a top leg and a handle portion. The bottom leg extends from one end of the base member at a bottom thereof. The top leg extends from the one end of the base member at a top thereof, such that a bone slot is created between the bottom leg and the top leg. A curved connecting surface preferably connects the bottom leg with the top leg. A cutting edge is formed on a top edge of the bottom leg. The handle portion extends from an opposing end of the base member at an acute angle from the top edge of the top leg. A resilient grip is formed on the handle portion. A second embodiment of the animal underbelly bone splitter includes a bone pocket tab, which extends downward from an end of the top leg.
Abstract:
The pelvic bone splitter (10) has a shaft (12) with a slot (18) and a knurled surface (26) on its free end (24). A first end (34) of a blade (14) is pivotally retained in the slot (18) by a pivot pin (16). Cutting edges (40, 42 and 44) on the blade (14) are movable into the slot (18). During use, a free end (24) of the shaft (12) is passed under the pelvic girdle (64) and out through an aperture (66) in the hide (68). Pressure is applied to the hand grip (50) to move the cutting edge (42) toward the slot (18), compress the pelvic girdle (64) between the cutting edge (42) and the anvil surfaces (28 and 30) and split the pelvic girdle.
Abstract:
A screen for use in a separator device includes an inner portion opening onto the screen inner surface and an outer portion extending the remainder of the way through the screen material. The outer portion of the screen opening allows the desired material to pass therethrough, while blocking the entry of large pieces of hard material. The inner portion of the screen opening includes a deflecting surface forming an acute deflecting angle with the inner screen surface in the direction at which a cutting element passes over the screen opening. Large pieces of hard material that may partially enter the screen opening are pressed against the deflecting surface as the cutting element passes over the screen opening, the deflecting surface serving to deflect the hard material out of the screen opening without chipping off or cutting off any of the hard material, which could then pass through the screen opening along with the desired material.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a mechanical separation head intended particularly for the treatment of crushed carcases and machine which is equipped with it. In such a separation head (100), and thus in the machine equipped with it, the drive under pressure against the grille (4) forming a sieve of the product to be treated is obtained by means of a vane (16) pump (P) serving at the connection of the crusher (18) and the head and which cooperates with a member (2) of which the double function is on the one hand to mash the product, and on the other hand to scrape the interior of the grille. Such a member (2) has a plurality of teeth (a,b,c . . . n) having a scraping surface (101), these teeth being spaced so that the totality of the internal face of the grille (4) is scraped. The invention is applicable to the treatment of any type of product having recoverable residual flesh such as animal carcases, fishbones, and shellfishes' shells.
Abstract:
An improved machine for separating meat from meat feed material having a substantial content of sinews or sinew-like material and being essentially free of bone particles larger than bone slivers, and wherein such a meat feed material is fed into one end of a foraminous cylinder in which an auger rotates at relatively high speed and fluidized meat separated from sinews, sinew-like material and bone slivers extrudes through the foramina while sinews, sinew-like material and bone slivers when present exit through a restricted discharge orifice, the improvement residing in a strip of flexible non-abrasive material being mounted on the crest of the auger flite so as to engage the interior of the foraminous cylinder and cut, and thereby free sinews or the like that may be lodged or trapped in the foramina.