US 7,410,414 B2Granted

Tenderising machine

AssigneeMetalquimia, S.A.

InventorNarcis Lagares Corominas

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Abstract

The invention relates to a tenderizing machine which is designed to tenderize deboned meat pieces. The inventive machine is equipped with two stacked tenderizing assemblies, each of the assemblies comprising an integrated pair of rotating rollers which are provided with cutting members that extend out from the periphery thereof and which are disposed close to one another, such as to define an adjustable-size opening. In addition, at least one of the rollers of each assembly is supported such that it can move away from the other roller against an opposer as the meat pieces move between said two rollers. Moreover, each of the tenderizing assemblies is equipped with respective controls for adjusting the distance between the cutting members of each pair of rollers and for selectively blocking the movement of at least one of the moving rollers of each of the assemblies.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A tenderising machine applicable to the processing of pieces of boned meat, containing or not fatty materials or other loads, comprising:

at least two superposed tenderiser assemblies A and B, each comprising a pair of rotatable axial-developed tenderising elements, with a number of cutting members, such as prongs or blades emerging from its surface, with the tenderising elements positioned close together, each pair of tenderising elements a defining a respective aperture with regulable amplitude and with at least one of the said tenderiser elements from each assembly A and B supported and adapted to move further away with respect to the other tenderiser element, said moveable tenderising elements adapted to be responsive to a load element during the passage of the pieces of meat which are pulled along by said pair of tenderising elements and pass from said first pair of tenderising elements to said second pair of tenderising elements by gravity;
means for each of the said tenderiser assemblies A and B to regulate the distance between the cutting members of each pair of tenderising elements and to selectively block the movement of said at least one movable tenderising element for each assembly A, B.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.