Method and apparatus for forming torn, random size pieces of sausage meat
US4112545A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 3, 1977 |
| Grant date | Sep 12, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 1997 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA22C7/00
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Chopped or ground sausage meat or like material is extruded as a continuous column into the path of action of a set of wipers which individually sweep across different fractional portions of the extrusion opening, thereby tearing respective random size chunks of material from the column being extruded. The chunks are primarily useful as pizza topping and may be frozen and stored for that purpose. The set of wipers is preferably provided as a plurality of radial arms rotatably mounted at intervals about a common axis and offset laterally from one another, so that free extremities of the arms act as tearing fingers as they sweep past respective fractional portions of the extrusion opening.
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