Multi-directional cut tenderizing assembly
OwnerPhil Bifulcoinventor
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Abstract
An assembly structured to tenderize food during a single pass along a path of travel including one or more processing sections each including two rotatable cutting rollers. Each cutting roller comprises a plurality of blades rotatable therewith and having a cutting edge disposed to penetrate the food cutting during rotation of the cutting rollers, wherein the plurality of cutting blades and corresponding ones of the cutting edges are cooperatively oriented to perform at least a bi-directional cut on the food product during the single pass thereof along the path of travel.
Claims32
An assembly structured to tenderize food comprising:
- at least one processing section disposed along a path of travel of the food being tenderized,
- said one processing section including at least two elongated, rotatable cutting rollers extending transverse to a length of said path of travel,
- each of said two cutting rollers comprising a plurality of blades rotatable therewith and collectively extending along at least a portion of the length of thereof in spaced relation to one another,
- each of said plurality of blades comprising a plurality of elongated blade segments;
- each of said plurality of blade segments including at least one cutting edge disposed on an outer free end thereof and disposable in penetrating relation to the food passing along the length of said path of travel,
- said plurality of cutting edges on each of said two cutting rollers cooperatively oriented to perform at least a bi-directional cut, during a single pass of the food along said path of travel, and
- said plurality of cutting edges on a first of said two cutting rollers disposed in substantially transverse relation to said plurality of cutting edges on a second of said two cutting rollers.
An assembly for tenderizing a food product comprising:
- a plurality of processing sections each including elongated first and second cutting rollers disposed in cooperative, interactive relation to one another and in transverse relation to a length of a path of travel of the food product being tenderized,
- each of said first and second cutting rollers comprising a plurality of cutting blades rotatable therewith and collectively extending along the length thereof in spaced relation to one another,
- each of said plurality of cutting blades comprising a plurality of blade segments;
- each of said blade segments including at least one cutting edge disposable in penetrating relation to the food product passing along the length of said path of travel,
- said plurality of said cutting edges on said first cutting roller disposed in substantially transverse relation to said plurality of cutting edges on said second cutting roller,
- a stripper assembly including at least one stripper member including a first stripper segment and a second stripper segment respectively oriented in substantially aligned and transverse relation to the length of said path of travel;
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- each of said first and second stripper segments including a slotted construction structured to interact with and remove food from at least one adjacent, correspondingly disposed roller of said path of travel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.