Apparatus for dividing a piece of meat containing a bone structure
AssigneeStork R.M.S. B.V.
InventorsThomas Gerardus Maria Jacobs, Sander Antonie van Ochten
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Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus for dividing a piece of meat containing at least one elongate bone structure, for example a spinal column, such that this elongate bone structure is also divided. The apparatus includes for this purpose a positioning assembly for positioning the piece of meat and a continuously movable knife for dividing a positioned piece of meat. The invention also relates to an apparatus for removing marrow from at least one piece of bone.
Claims36
An apparatus for dividing a piece of meat containing at least one elongate bone structure such that this bone structure is also divided, which apparatus comprises:
- guiding means;
- positioning means for positioning the piece of meat;
- dividing means for dividing a positioned piece of meat, wherein the dividing means comprise a knife having a principal plane and having a blade with a leading cutting edge;
- and
- displacement means for displacing said knife only in a continuous forwardly directed movement substantially in the principal plane of the blade during cutting, such that a plane of displacement defined by the cutting edge extends in a longitudinal direction through the bone structure, and
- wherein the knife is guided relative to the positioning means by the guiding means, and
- wherein the displacement means are adapted to displace the knife only in a continuously forward directed movement during cutting.
An apparatus for dividing a piece of meat containing at least one elongate bone structure, such that this elongate bone structure is also divided, which apparatus comprises:
- displacement means;
- positioning means for positioning the piece of meat;
- and
- dividing means for dividing a positioned piece of meat;
- wherein the dividing means are displaceable by means of the displacement means, wherein said elongate bone structure comprises the spinal column of a slaughtered animal for dividing, and
- wherein the dividing means includes suction means for extracting spinal marrow from the spinal column.
An apparatus for dividing a piece of meat containing at least one elongate bone structure such that this elongate bone structure is also divided, which apparatus comprises:
- positioning means for positioning the piece of meat;
- and
- dividing means for dividing a positioned piece of meat;
- wherein the dividing means are displaceable,
- wherein the dividing means comprise a mechanical dividing member, which dividing member is removably carried by an operational holder, and the apparatus is provided with at least one storage holder for holding in storage at least one dividing member, in addition to transporting means for removing a dividing member from the operational holder and transporting the dividing member to the storage holder and for removing a dividing member from the storage holder and transporting the dividing member to the operational holder.
An apparatus for dividing a piece of meat containing at least one elongate bone structure such that this elongate bone structure is also divided, which apparatus comprises:
- positioning means for positioning the piece of meat;
- and
- dividing means for dividing a positioned piece of meat;
- wherein the dividing means are displaceable and comprise a knife, which knife comprises a flexible strip having a finite length which is transportable via an active zone from a stock roll to a winding roll and which strip is non-movably clamped in the dividing means during cutting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.