Device for pickling pieces of meat
US4388859A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 5, 1981 |
| Grant date | Jun 21, 1983 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 5, 2001 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02A40/90
- WIPO fieldFood chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Device for pickling (curing) pieces of meat in a continuous operation with a feeder which leads into the space of two injection needle cylinders which are driven about horizontal axes to pass on the material and stab with their injection needles into the passing-through pieces of meat and in the process inject pickling brine from a piping system provided in the interior of the injection needle cylinders. This device is improved in the respect that the required pickling brine can be injected quickly, and uniformly distributed as far as possible without losses. This is achieved by a special construction for controlling the inflow of the pickling brine from a hollow space between the hollow bodies of the needle cylinders and a stationary tube for feeding the pickling brine to the holes of the needles. The control is constructed so that only those needles which happen to penetrate into a piece of meat are connected to the hollow body which is filled with pickling brine under pressure.
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