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US 5,860,348 AGranted
Apparatus for dividing frozen fish slabs
AssigneePearce Processing Systems, Inc.
InventorsCharles H. Morse, Robert R. Harrison
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AssigneePearce Processing Systems, Inc.
InventorsCharles H. Morse, Robert R. Harrison
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A method of dividing deep-frozen food blocks comprising forming a succession of spaced parallel blade rows each row having a plurality of spaced parallel coaxial freely rotatable discoid blades and advancing successive food blocks past the successive blade rows so that the blades in the successive blade rows rotate with a peripheral speed which more or less matches the speed of the block advance so that there is minimal relative linear motion of the blade edges and the blocks whereby the blades groove the blocks by displacing block material to the sides of the grooves and selecting a number of blade rows such that while the grooves made by any blade row are quite shallow, the grooves made by all of the blade rows divide each of the blocks into a plurality of parts. Apparatus for practicing the method is also disclosed.
In an apparatus for dividing deep-frozen food blocks which apparatus includes a surface for supporting the blocks, a succession of spaced, parallel blade rows, each row including a plurality of spaced, parallel discoid blades having a common axis, wherein the blades in each row are closer to said surface than the blades in the previous blade row, and wherein each of the blades in each row is generally aligned with a respective one of the blades in the previous row, and moving means for advancing successive blocks past the succession of blade rows so that the blades in the succession of blade rows form progressively deeper grooves in the blocks, the improvement wherein
In an apparatus for dividing deep-frozen food blocks which apparatus includes a surface for supporting the blocks, a succession of spaced, parallel blade rows, each row including a plurality of spaced, parallel discoid blades having a common axis, wherein the blades in each row are closer to said surface than the blades in the previous blade row, and wherein each of the blades in each row is generally aligned with a respective one of the blades in the previous row, and moving means for advancing successive blocks past the succession of blade rows so that the blades in the succession of blade rows form progressively deeper grooves in the blocks, the improvement wherein
Apparatus for dividing deep-frozen food blocks comprising:
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