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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 03, 1989
Georg Zinser, Winterstettenstadt, DE;
Albert Handtmann, Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Biberach an der Riss, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a machine for processing meat, particularly sausage meat, comprising a supply hopper disposed on top of the machine, a lift arm pivotably mounted on a horizontal axle fixedly connected to the machine, a horizontal tipping shaft rotatably mounted on said lift arm, and a carrier frame for a mobile sausage meat container secured to said tipping shaft. In order to improve a machine of the type defined above in a manner ensuring safe and reliable raising of the lift arm and tipping of the sausage meat container, the invention provides that between the lift arm axle fixedly connected to the machine and the tipping shaft there is provided a first chain transmission having a transmission ratio of 1:1 for guiding the sausage meat container parallel to itself during raising and lowering of the lift arm, and a second cross-connected chain transmission having a transmission ratio greater than 1 for tipping the sausage meat container, the driving sprockets of said chain transmissions being freely rotatable on the fixed lift arm axle and adapted to be alternately coupled thereto, whereas the driven sprockets of the two chain transmissions are non-rotatably secured to the tipping shaft.