Machine for splitting skins, having an adjustable calibrating roller

In a machine for splitting skins through their thickness, with an annular endless band blade, an upper bridge carrying a power-driven calibrating roller and a lower bridge having a feed and pressure roller, said rollers in turn being in contact respectively with a flower side and a flesh side of a skin, said upper bridge being swingable on upper hinges supporting the upper bridge on a machine support, the improvement wherein said calibrating roller is vertically adjustable and can be warped by flexure and a plurality of compensating rollers are provided to act against said calibrating roller, said compensating rollers being supported by a plurality of bearing means displaceable by hydraulic actuators, said bearing means including two bearing means supporting said calibrating roller at its ends and at least one bearing means between said ends, means being provided for the regulation of the positions of said actuators individually and jointly when the machine is stopped and during the splitting processing of each skin.