Separator for a food-product grinding machine with metering auger
US11203022B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 30, 2017 |
| Grant date | Dec 21, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 25, 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, separation chamber, metering auger, and metering cone, is located downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. The metering auger is fixedly coupled to a distal end of the separator screw and has a reduced diameter relative to the separator screw. The metering auger advances in a downstream direction the hard material of the mixture of soft material and hard material. The metering cone includes an internal conical portion and a metering passageway formed therein, where the metering auger is in communication with the metering passageway, and where a selected diameter of the metering auger defines an amount of the hard material that is advanced in the downstream direction through the metering passageway toward a discharge end.
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