Meat cutting apparatus
CA 1100020 A · Owner: Haverhill Meat Products Limited · Inventors: Chenery, Brian R.
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The invention comprises an apparatus and method for automatically removing fat from a meat carcass. A sensing station 10 (Figure 1) includes a row of needle probes 16 which can be inserted into the carcass 30 and which produce an electric signal at a fat/lean interface. The position of this interface relative to a support is recorded for each probe in a memory unit 18 and the, carcass is then passed to a cutting section 11 where it is drawn over a knife blade 24. The height of the knife blade is adjustable by a servo-motor 27 controlled from the memory unit and as the, carcass is pulled over the knife information from the memory unit, is progressively released to adjust the knife so that …
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- Granted April 28, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 28, 1998.
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