Cutting assembly for trimming pieces of meat, processing system including such a cutting assembly, and corresponding methods of operating and use associated thereto
AssigneeEquipements Frontmatec Inc.
InventorsAntoine Wells Campagna, Kevin Bergeron, Alexandre Lemieux
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Abstract
A cutting assembly and corresponding workpiece processing for cutting a workpiece, the cutting assembly including a first cutting tool adapted to cut the workpiece along a first cutting plane, and a second cutting tool adapted to cut the workpiece along a second cutting plane, the first and second cutting planes defining an inner angle therebetween, the cutting assembly being adapted to cut the workpiece along the first and second cutting planes in a single operation.
Claims19
A cutting assembly for cutting a workpiece, the cutting assembly comprising:
- a manipulator system;
- a support frame rotatably connected to the manipulator system;
- a first cutting tool operatively connected to the support frame and adapted to cut the workpiece along a first cutting plane;
- a second cutting tool operatively connected to the support frame and adapted to cut the workpiece along a second cutting plane different than the first cutting plane, the second cutting plane intersecting the first cutting plane;
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- the first and second cutting planes defining an inner angle therebetween, the cutting assembly being adapted to cut the workpiece along the first and second cutting planes in a single operation.
A workpiece processing system for processing a given workpiece, the system comprising:
- a conveying assembly adapted to convey the workpiece along a predetermined path;
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- a cutting assembly provided about the conveying assembly, the cutting assembly comprising:
- a manipulator system;
- a support frame rotatably connected to the manipulator system;
- a first cutting tool coupled to the support frame and adapted to cut the workpiece along a first cutting plane;
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- a second cutting tool coupled to the support frame and adapted to cut the workpiece along a second cutting plane different than the first cutting plane, the first and second cutting planes defining an inner angle therebetween,
- the cutting assembly being adapted to cut the workpiece along the first and second cutting planes in a single operation.
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