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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2014
Marel Meat Processing B.v., Boxmeer, NL;
Johannes Cornelis Antonius Maria Van Der Leest, Oss, NL;
Dennis Stoots, Oss, NL;
Jan Meerdink, Ravenstein, NL;
MAREL MEAT PROCESSING B.V., Boxmeer, NL;
Abstract
A skinning device for removing skin from an animal carcass has a housing, a manipulation arm extending from the housing, an cutting blade, a motor driven tooth roll mounted on the housing having plurality of tooth wheels arranged in axially spaced apart arrangement such that the space between adjacent tooth wheels has a pre-set distance. The tooth wheels have circumferentially arranged teeth projecting outwardly therefrom adapted to grab the skin with the circumferentially arranged teeth and pull it towards the cutting blade. The skinning device includes a support structure mounted on the housing arranged in proximity to the tooth roll, and is adapted to engage the skin while the skin is simultaneously being pulled off the carcass. Strippers are arranged in the space of pre-set distance and circumferentially surround at least a space portion where the arc-shaped contour essentially follows the tooth roll.