Separator for a food-product grinding machine with ring adjustment
US11173497B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 29, 2017 |
| Grant date | Nov 16, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 23, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB02C2018/308
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A grinding machine for grinding food-products, such as meat or the like, includes an orifice plate at the outlet of a grinding head. The orifice plate has collection passages that discharge a mixture of soft material and hard material through the orifice plate. A separator assembly, including a separator screw and separation chamber, is located downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. A ring adjustment assembly includes a ring valve having an internal conical portion in communication with a nose portion of the separator screw, and a ring valve carrier configured to reciprocally displace the ring valve in an axial direction relative to the separator screw so as to vary a gap between the nose portion of the separator screw and the internal conical portion of the ring valve. Adjustment of the gap distance determines an amount of the hard material that is passed toward the discharge outlet.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.