US 4,048,689 A · Meat cleaning machine

Abstract

A meat cleaning machine having an improved meat driving cylinder which includes a series of concentrically arranged, axially spaced, meat driving rings having outwardly projecting teeth which define the outer surface of the cylinder, and a supporting framework which consists of a pair of ring-shaped end frames positioned axially outwardly of the meat driving rings and interconnected by a pair of cross members disposed outwardly of the periphery of the cylinder. Each end frame has a pair of spaced, outwardly opening slots and a single inwardly opening slot. The slots in each end frame are aligned and form seats to journal the ends of grooved rollers which receive the meat driving rings in their grooves to support them, space them axially of the cylinder and maintain them in concentric relationship to each other. Because of the inherent rigidity of the supporting framework as opposed to prior art structures of cantilevered design, the framework can be made of lighter construction while still providing increased rigidity with respect to the cantilevered design and improved ease of assembly and disassembly as well as freedom from interior cross members.

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Dependent claims

In a meat handling machine having a centrally open meat driving cylinder including a plurality of axially aligned and spaced meat driving rings each having outwardly projecting teeth, means for driving said cylinder about the axis thereof and meat cleaning means positioned within said cylinder to clean the surface of a piece of meat engaged by said teeth, the improvement comprising:

a. a ring supporting framework consisting of:
i. a pair of opposed, one piece, centrally open end frames positioned axially outwardly of said rings, and
ii. means interconnecting said end frames, extending axially of said cylinder and positioned solely outside the periphery thereof,
b. each of said end frames including at least three seats angularly spaced about said axis of said cylinder with the seats on one end frame aligned with those on the other end frame to form at least three sets of aligned seats,
c. at least one of said sets of seats being positioned on an opposite side of said axis of said cylinder from the others of said sets of seats, and
d. at least three ring support members, each having the ends thereof received and mounted in said end frames with said ring support members having portions engaging inwardly disposed surfaces of said meat driving rings in supporting relationship thereto.

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