Automatic meat cutting apparatus
AssigneecJet B.V.
InventorsSander Martijn Havik, Ruud Jacobus Wilhelmus Schatorjé
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Abstract
An automatic meat cutting apparatus includes: a skewer holding system to hold a skewer with meat in a vertical position and to rotate the skewer about a vertical axis of rotation, a grill unit to grill meat on the skewer, a meat cutting device to cut meat from the skewer, and an actuator system to move the cutting device with respect to the skewer. The automatic meat cutting apparatus further includes: a sensor device arranged to provide a sensor signal representative for a location of the meat on the skewer, and a processing unit to control the actuator system to move the cutting device to a desired cutting position on the basis of the sensor signal.
Claims21
An automatic meat cutting apparatus, comprising:
- a skewer holding system to hold a skewer with meat in a vertical position and to rotate the skewer about a vertical axis of rotation,
- a grill unit to grill meat on the skewer,
- a meat cutting device to cut meat from the skewer,
- an actuator system to move the cutting device with respect to the skewer,
- a sensor device arranged to provide a sensor signal representative for a location of the meat on the skewer, and
- a processing unit to control the actuator system to move the cutting device to a desired cutting position on the basis of the sensor signal,
- wherein the processing unit is configured to determine multiple vertical meat surface profiles of meat on the skewer on the basis of the sensor signal,
- wherein the processing unit is configured to determine a circumferential meat surface profile from the multiple meat surface profiles,
- wherein the processing unit is configured to determine cutting profiles on the basis of the circumferential meat surface profile, and wherein the processing unit is configured to control the actuator system to move the cutting device along the cutting profiles, wherein the cutting profiles are determined to cut the meat surface in one or more vertical cuts to a desired circumferential meat surface profile.
A method to automatically cut meat from a skewer rotatable about a vertical axis of rotation using a cutting device, comprising the steps:
- measuring with a sensor device a distance between the sensor device and a meat surface of meat on the skewer,
- determining with a processing unit a vertical meat surface profile of meat on the skewer on the basis of the measured distance,
- determining a cutting profile on the basis of the vertical meat surface profile, and
- moving the cutting device along the cutting profile.
Automatic meat cutting apparatus, comprising:
- a skewer holding system to hold a skewer with meat in a vertical position and to rotate the skewer about a vertical axis of rotation,
- a grill unit to grill meat on the skewer,
- a meat cutting device to cut meat from the skewer, and
- an actuator system to move the cutting device with respect to the skewer,
- a sensor device arranged to provide a sensor signal representative for a location of the meat on the skewer, and
- a processing unit to control the actuator system to move the cutting device to a desired cutting position on the basis of the sensor signal,
- wherein the meat cutting apparatus comprises a cutting unit comprising the sensor device and the cutting device,
- wherein the processing unit is configured to control the actuator system to move the cutting unit in an upwards movement along the meat surface to measure the distance between the sensor device and the meat surface, and wherein the processing unit is configured to control the actuator system to move the cutting unit in a downwards movement along the meat surface to cut meat from the skewer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.