System for forming moulded meat products
AssigneesMarel Further Processing B.V., Marel France
InventorsJean Noël Grill, Jacques Le Paih, Fabrice Le Pabic, Thomas Willem Dekker, Johannes Martinus Meulendijks
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Abstract
A system for forming moulded meat products from a meat mass comprising. The system comprises a mould with at least one mould cavity, a meat supply pump and an interface module for connecting the meat supply channel to the mould. The interface module comprises a tubular section, a meat supply opening, a meat delivery opening, and a rotatable drive shaft comprising a first end outside the tubular section, configured to engage with a drive means and a second end extending inside the tubular section. The system further comprises an additive supply for controllably supplying an additive via an additive supply channel.
Claims24
A system for forming moulded meat products from a meat mass comprising:
- a mould comprising at least one mould cavity for forming a moulded meat product;
- a meat supply pump for controllably supplying the meat mass via a meat supply channel;
- an interface module for connecting the meat supply channel to the mould, wherein the interface module comprises:
- a tubular section;
- a meat supply opening configured to engage with the meat supply channel;
- a meat delivery opening configured to deliver the meat mass from the interface module into the at least one mould cavity;
- a rotatable drive shaft comprising a first end outside the tubular section, configured to engage with a drive means and a second end extending inside the tubular section;
- wherein the system further comprises an additive supply for controllably supplying an additive via an additive supply channel, and
- wherein the interface module further comprises an additive supply opening configured to engage with the additive supply channel, such that the additive supply channel is fluidly connectable to an additive distribution means for distributing the additive into the meat mass inside of the tubular section,
- wherein the additive distribution means comprise a tube extending from the additive supply opening and bifurcating into a plurality of end points,
- wherein the plurality of end points are distributed over the cross-section of the tubular section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.