Fish processing machines

US4056866A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Nordischer Maschinenbau Rud. Baader GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventor

• Werner Wenzel · Lübeck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 8, 1976
• Grant date: Nov 8, 1977
• Expiry date: Apr 8, 1996

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A22C25/16
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A machine for filleting fish of various species comprising belly filleting knives for making belly cuts, bone knives for separating the vertebral appendages from the vertebrae without separating the flank fillets from the fish, rib knives for cutting the already separated vertebral appendges from the fish, and back filleting knives for finally separating the flank fillets from the fish. Also guide means are provided in close relationship with the bone knives to limit the cutting depth of the latter.