Method of producing minced fish meat
AssigneesTaiyo Fishery Co., Ltd., Toyo Suisan Kikai Co., Ltd.
InventorsSumito Goto, Fumio Tsujii, Hideki Okada, Takeshi Suzuki
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Abstract
A method of effectively producing minced fish meat in a large quantity from fish bodies having hard meat comprising supplying a substantially fixed and large quantity of fish bodies having hard meat to a fish body cutting means for constantly cutting all the fish bodies into a plurality of cut pieces, feeding the cut pieces of the fish bodies to a washing means for removing impurities such as scales, dirts, blood and internal organs, etc. from said cut pieces, crushing said cut pieces by a crusher for softening the fish meat, and then collecting the fish meat by a fish meat collecting means for obtaining the minced fish meat.
Claims8
A method of producing minced fish meat comprising the steps of:
- cutting fish bodies into a plurality of cut, bone-containing, fish body pieces;
- washing said cut pieces to remove therefrom impurities adhered to said cut pieces to provide washed, bone-containing cut fish body pieces;
- crushing the washed, cut, bone-containing fish body pieces to break the skin of the cut pieces, to cut or break bones into small pieces, and to soften the fish meat;
- feeding the crushed, bone-containing fish meat to a fish meat collecting means comprising a fish meat collection member having a number of fish meat collecting holes in a wall thereof;
- pressing the crushed, bone-containing fish meat against the fish meat collecting member to cause fish meat to pass through said fish meat collecting holes;
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- recovering, as minced fish meat, the fish meat which passes through said fish meat collecting holes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.