Apparatus for tenderizing meat
AssigneeHollymatic Corporation
InventorRichard C. Wagner
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Abstract
Apparatus for tenderizing meat that contains fibers, tissues and similar toughening elements and including reciprocable spaced long slender knives with sharp meat penetrating and severing blade ends with means for reciprocating the knives into and from meat penetration. The apparatus particularly includes means for mounting these blades at an angle other than 0.degree. to the direction of movement of a meat conveyor and staggering the blades so that the assembly of blades spans substantially the entire meat carrying portion of the conveyor so that as the blades are reciprocated into and from meat penetration as the conveyor moves the meat in increments all of the toughening elements are severed.
Claims19
Apparatus for tenderizing meat, comprising:
- a conveyor for conveying meat in a longitudinal direction through said apparatus;
- a mounting member above the transverse to said conveyor;
- a plurality of knives comprising elongated blades on said mounting member having sharp meat penetrating and severing blade ends adjacent to said conveyor, each said blade end being transversely planar and arranged at an angle other than 0.degree. to said direction of movement of said conveyor;
- means for arranging said blades in a plurality of spaced first rows extending longitudinally of said direction of movement and a plurality of spaced second rows extending transversely to said direction of movement, the collective said blades in said plurality of second rows include some blade ends in some combinations of said second rows parallel to each other and other blade ends in other combinations of said second rows at an acute angle to each other;
- and means for reciprocating said mounting member toward and away from said meat and thereby said knives into and from meat penetration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.