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US 10,843,364 B2Granted
Cutting machine as well as method for cutting elastic strings, in particular meat strings
AssigneeTvi Entwicklung & Produktion GmbH
InventorsThomas Völkl, Martin Mayr
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Abstract
A cutting machine for cutting up pre-compressed meat strands into slices and a method for slicing pre-compressed meat strands, wherein the blade is moved forward in the feed direction to a limited extent after the blade has completely cut off a slice, and is either subsequently or simultaneously moved backward in the transversal direction. In this way, the forward movement of the meat strand to cut off the next slice can be started earlier.
Claims7
A method for producing slices from a meat strand, the method including the steps of:
- arranging a meat strand in a form tube,
- compressing the meat strand in the form tube in at least a transversal direction and in a longitudinal pressing direction of the form tube,
- moving the strand forward in the longitudinal pressing direction beyond a forward cutting end of the form tube,
- cutting a slice off from each strand in front of the front cutting end of the form tube using a blade by moving the blade through the strand from a starting position into a transversal direction to the longitudinal compressing direction,
- axially moving the blade in the longitudinal pressing direction following each cut over a duration of movement, and during the duration of movement, moving the strand to beyond the front end of the form tube, and
- moving the blade backward to the starting position in the transversal direction as well as counter to the longitudinal compressing direction before cutting off the next slice.
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