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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1987
C Richard Rudibaugh, Chicago, IL (US);
Cozzini Manufacturing Corp., , IL (US);
Abstract
A bone chip removal and ground meat separating unit for use with a meat grinding apparatus having at least one further meat processing unit downstream thereof and wherein the grinding apparatus includes a casing with a centrally apertured end cap secured thereto for holding a centrally hubbed, perforated die plate with at least one bone chip discharge channel extending through the hub, and including a ground meat discharge conduit having an entrance end adapted to be secured to the end cap for receiving ground meat extruded through the perforations, and a bone chip removal tube having one end adapted to be secured to the hub for receiving bone chips discharged through the channel and another end communicating with an exit opening in the conduit downstream of the entrance end for discharging bone chips out of the stream of ground meat being conveyed through the conduit with a valve in the tube for regulating the flow of bone chips therethrough.