Meat inspection system
AssigneeMarel Iceland Ehf
InventorsÁrni Sigurdsson, Hrafnkell Eiríksson
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Abstract
A meat inspection and sorting line comprising supply means, a radiation inspection facility, a cutting facility and a reject facility. Meat parts are brought together and fed into the radiation inspection facility by means of a conveyor in a layer of meat parts. An undesired object is detected by the radiation inspection facility by means of e.g. an X-ray technique and a part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is identified and separated from the layer of meat parts by the cutting facility. The identified and separated part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is rejected by the reject facility from the layer of meat parts.
Claims22
A meat inspection and sorting line comprising
- supply means;
- a radiation inspection facility;
- a cutting facility;
- and
- a reject facility,
- wherein meat parts are brought together in a layer of meat parts and fed into the radiation inspection facility using a conveyor,
- wherein an undesired object is detected by the radiation inspection facility by a radiation device, such that a part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is identified and separated from the layer of meat parts by the cutting facility, and the identified and separated part of the layer containing the undesired object is rejected from the layer of meat parts by the reject facility.
A method of performing a meat inspection and sorting, comprising the steps of:
- bringing meat parts together in a layer of meat parts for feeding into a radiation inspection facility using a conveyor, wherein an undesired object is detected by the radiation inspection facility by means of a radiation technique;
- identifying a part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object for separation from the layer of meat parts at a cutting facility;
- and
- rejecting the separated part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object at a reject facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.