Meat cutting assembly
OwnerPhil Bifulcoinventor
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Abstract
An assembly for cutting a meat or food product passing along a path of travel comprising a cutting roller having a plurality of cutting blades radially mounted thereon. A mating assembly interacts with the cutting blades to accomplish a multipoint cutting procedure facilitated by the concurrent rotation of the cutting roller and cutting blades as well as a linear reciprocal travel thereof transverse to the path of travel. A stabilizing assembly restricts the dimensional variance of the spacing between the cutting roller and mating assembly, through which the meat product travels and an ejecting assembly removes cut portions from the cutting blades, back onto the path of travel. The assembly includes a modular construction disposal within and removal from a processing line associated with the path of travel.
Claims30
An assembly for cutting meat passing along a path of travel, said assembly comprising:
- a blade assembly including a cutting roller rotatable relative to the path of travel,
- a primary drive assembly connected in rotationally driving relation to said cutting roller,
- a secondary drive assembly connected in reciprocally driving relation to said cutting roller,
- said primary drive assembly comprising a drive shaft disposed in driving relation to said cutting roller;
- an attachment assembly disposed in interconnecting relation between said drive shaft and said cutting roller, said attachment assembly cooperatively structured to move with and relative to said drive shaft,
- said secondary drive assembly including a movable portion connected to and rotatable with said cutting roller and a fixed portion fixedly disposed relative to said cutting roller,
- said movable portion and said fixed portion moveably interconnected to one another and comprising a driving interconnection of said cutting roller by said fixed portion, and
- said primary and secondary drive assemblies cooperatively structured to reciprocally drive said cutting roller in transverse relation to the path of travel concurrent to rotation of said cutting roller.
An assembly for cutting meat passing along a path of travel, said assembly comprising:
- a blade assembly including a cutting roller rotatable relative to the path of travel,
- a primary drive assembly connected in driven relation to a power take off and further connected in rotationally driving relation to said cutting roller,
- a secondary drive assembly connected in linearly and reciprocally driving relation to said cutting roller in a direction transverse to the path of travel,
- said primary drive assembly including a drive shaft and an attachment assembly;
- said attachment assembly concurrently connected in driving relation to said cutting roller and in driven relation to said drive shaft,
- said attachment assembly further disposed in interconnecting relation between said drive shaft and said cutting roller,
- said attachment assembly rotatable with said drive shaft and said cutting roller and reciprocally movable with said cutting roller relative to and along a length of said drive shaft, and
- said attachment assembly further cooperatively structured to move with and relative to said drive shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.