A - Human Necessities – 22 – C
Patent
A - Human Necessities
22
C
17/27
A22C 17/12 (2006.01) A22B 5/16 (2006.01) A22C 25/17 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1285355
ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION A meat skinning machine is disclosed including a frame, a meat supporting surface on the frame, and a powered cylindrical gripping roll with a plurality of teeth on the outer surface rotatably mounted on the frame. A blade holding device is mounted adjacent the gripping roll and maintains a cutting blade closely adjacent the teeth of the gripping roll. A shelf device is mounted on the machine between the meat supporting surface and the cutting edge of the blade just- beyond the periphery of the teeth of the gripping roll. The shelf device of a first embodiment comprises a skin stripping element having a base portion and an arcuate open hook portion having a peripheral edge with the hook portion being received into an annular groove cut in the gripping roll. A meat supporting edge extends radially beyond the outer surface of the hook portion. The shelf device is created when a plurality of the stripper elements are placed in a plurality of annular grooves in the gripper roll. Adjustment means interconnect the frame and the stripper elements to adjust the distance between the blade and the meat supporting edges. A first alternate form of the shelf means comprises an elongated member dwelling in the space between the meat support ing surface and the cutting blade. A plurality of fingers extend from the elongated member, with the lower portions thereof dwelling in annular grooves in the gripping roll and the upper portions extending beyond the periphery of the gripping roll to create a meat supporting surface. A second alternate form of the invention involves a similar elongated member with either protruding fingers or of solid construction but which completely extends over the periphery of the gripping roll to permit the gripping roll to be of continuous construction. A method of skinning meat is disclosed comprising the supporting of the meat product immediately adjacent the cutting edge of the blade at a position radially beyond the periphery of the gripping roll to support the meat product until just prior to the time that the meat product moves into contact with the cutting edge to permit the meat product to move in an angular direction towards the gripping roll and into contact with the cutting edge to permit the blade to separate the membrane from the meat product. The separated membrane will then engage the teeth and be pulled away from the cutting edge by the teeth in a path between the cutting blade and the teeth.
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Townsend Ray T.
Townsend Ray T.
Townsend Engineering Company
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