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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ray T Townsend, Des Moines, IA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22B / ; A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
452127 ; 83105 ; 99589 ;
Abstract
A meat skinning machine has a supporting surface with a discharge edge adjacent the surface of a toothed gripper roll, with an elongated skinning blade spaced from and opposite to the discharge edge. A curved deflector plate is located downstream from the blade and curves upwardly and rearwardly to cause a chunk of meat departing the blade to move upwardly and rearwardly for redeposit on the supporting surface. A method of skinning a meat product with a gripper roll and a blade by moving a skinned chunk of meat upwardly and rearwardly with respect to the blade after departing the blade for purposes of skinning another surface of the meat chunk.