Abstract: It comprises a bench (12) supporting a longitudinal propping floor (1) provided with means to make said meat pieces are intermittently moved forwards along it, at least a tenderizing group (6) provided with sabres (7) uprightly moveable to stab the meat pieces on the floor (1) and at least a hammering group (4) provided with a stamping member (5) uprightly moveable to hit the meat pieces on said floor (1), said intermittently moving forwards means, said hammering group (4) and said tenderizing group (6) being connected to independent driving means (19, 10a, 10b) controlled in a coordinated and independent way so that said sabres (7) and stamping member (5) operate when the meat pieces are stopped and are withdrawn when the same are moving forwards.

Abstract: The invention relates to a food cooking installation comprising numerous cooking tanks which are used to receive the food items to be cooked; means of loading/unloading the food items into/from said cooking tanks; and means of conveying, driving and storing liquids, which are used to connect a heated liquid container, a cooled liquid container and a piped water delivery point with the aforementioned cooking tanks. In this way, the tanks can be filled and emptied independently and the food items contained therein can be subjected to successive baths for different periods of time and at different temperatures, at least one of the baths being a cooking bath and the other a cooling bath. According to the Invention, each of the aforementioned cooking tanks comprises at least one lateral opening which is equipped with impervious sealing means and which is used to load/unload the food items using the above-mentioned loading/unloading means.

Abstract: It comprises an injection station (10); a maceration station (20), including a massaging rotating drum (22) and several drawn quiescent tanks (24); and a packaging station (30). Such stations are linked by an accumulation and loading unit (40) to the drum (22) located between the said injection station (10) and the maceration station (20); a reloading unit (50) located between the station (20) and the unit (40); and a transferring unit (60) to a feeding hopper (62) of the said packaging station (30) including an automatic cleaning unit (70) for the tanks (24). A control center coordinates the operations steps of the stations and units for keeping a non-stop operation, providing a time for cleaning each station, unit or part thereof during such cycle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stuffing/dosing machine comprising a tilting hopper. The machine comprises a hopper with a hermetic cover bearing a screw feeder and a narrowed base which communicates with an antechamber, said antechamber communicating in turn with at least one forming chamber which is connected to an outlet. Moreover, at least one actuated piston performs a stroke with one first section in the antechamber and a second section in the forming chamber. First and second structural units, which are formed respectively by the aforementioned hopper, cover, screw feeder and narrowed base and by said antechamber, forming chambers, pistons and actuation means, can be tilted independently between operating positions and cleaning and maintenance positions in relation to fixed frame comprising the valve and the outlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for portioning flowable food products, consisting of: a first group of cylinders (1) comprising pistons (3) which communicate with a chamber (5) having an inlet (5a) and an outlet (5b); a second group of cylinders (2) comprising pistons (4) which communicate with a chamber (6) having an inlet (6a) and an outlet (6b), and dispensing means. Said dispensing means are controlled by synchronisation and control means in order to: alternately communicate a food product inlet (9) with said chamber (5) whereby the cylinders (1) open the inlet (5a) and close the outlet (5b) thereof; and simultaneously communicate an outlet (10) with said chamber (8) whereby the cylinders (2) close the inlet (56a) and open the outlet (6b) thereof and vice versa. Fluid dynamic cylinders (26) actuate each piston (3, 4) consecutively or actuate on sub-groups of pistons (3, 4) consecutively in order to empty the cylinders (1, 2).

Abstract: The invention relates to a head having multiple retractable needles for injecting pieces of meat and the injecting needle for same, said head comprising a liquid supply chamber. Injecting needles (4) extend through the supply chamber. Said needles are provided with a penetration point (14), a passage (12), which communicates with the injection openings (15) located close to the point (14), and distal end (18), far from the point (14), which is provided with a limiting piece (17). The distal end (18) is disposed opposite elastic retaining means that can be used to draw the needle back if said needle comes into contact with a bone in the piece of meat to be injected. The supply chamber comprises numerous parallel, interconnected and elongated conduits (3) through which certain sections (4a) of the needles (4) can be guided to slide.

Abstract: Device for filtering fluid substances, used for a meat materials injecting machine which comprises a coarse filter (1) provided with means (2) for retaining and withdrawing from a fluid the largest particles, and at least a first and a second fine filters (3a) for retaining the smallest particles remaining in the said fluid prefiltered by the coarse filter. The said fine filters (3a) are mounted in respective supporting means (10a), independent from each other, fastened on selecting means (9a). Each of the said supporting means (10a) can independently adopt a working position in which the said selecting means (9a) allow that the fluid passes through related fine filter (3a) and a cleaning position in which the said selecting means (9a) block the passage of the fluid through related fine filter (3a), which can be dismounted for its cleaning.

Abstract: It comprises a chamber for distributing the fluid through which are extending injection needles (4) having a penetration point (14) and a passageway (12) which communicates with injection holes (15) close to the point (14) and a end (18) distal from the point (14) with a limiting stop (17) the end (18) of which remains facing elastic retaining means for the needle back motion in the event it finds a bone in the piece meat to be injected.

Abstract: It comprises a bench (12) supporting a longitudinal propping floor (1) provided with means to make said meat pieces are intermittently moved forwards along it, at least a tenderizing group (6) provided with sabres (7) uprightly moveable to stab the meat pieces on the floor (1) and at least a hammering group (4) provided with a stamping member (5) uprightly moveable to hit the meat pieces on said floor (1), said intermittently moving forwards means, said hammering group (4) and said tenderizing group (6) being connected to independent driving means (19, 10a, 10b) controlled in a coordinated and independent way so that said sabres (7) and stamping member (5) operate when the meat pieces are stopped and are withdrawn when the same are moving forwards.

Abstract: Device for filtering fluid substances, used for a meat materials injecting machine which comprises a coarse filter (1) provided with means (2) for retaining and withdrawing from a fluid the largest particles, and at least a first and a second fine filters (3a) for retaining the smallest particles remaining in the said fluid prefiltered by the coarse filter. The said fine filters (3a) are mounted in respective supporting means (10a), independent from each other, fastened on selecting means (9a). Each of the said supporting means (10a) can independently adopt a working position in which the said selecting means (9a) allow that the fluid passes through related fine filter (3a) and a cleaning position in which the said selecting means (9a) block the passage of the fluid through related fine filter (3a), which can be dismounted for its cleaning.

Abstract: A method and a machine for the treatment of meat pieces by hammering. The method consists in submitting the meat pieces during stopping stages in their progress along a deck (3) to one or more blows dealt by a succession of hammering members (12) whose surface provided to contact the meat piece has a plurality of pointed protrusions (15). The machine comprises a conveyor (1) providing a unitary feeding of meat pieces towards a stationary deck (3) with a plurality of pointed protrusions (4) distributed along its surface and the deck (3) having associated means providing a back-and-forth intermittent motion of the meat pieces.

Abstract: An automatic stripping machine for meat products such as hams or other meat products which have been previously baked in a mold and compressed by a lid inserted in the mold and provided with at least a crosspiece mounted in a floating arrangement on two or more columns integral with the lid, with interposition of a resilient device and arms having a toothed profile for locking the lid to the mold, being hinged on one end of the crosspiece and having one of their teeth locked under an external rim which surrounds the mold opening. The machine carries out in a sequential and automatic way the operations of sequential feeding of the molds filled with the meat product and closed with a lid; identifying the number of lid locking arms for the purpose of subsequently removing the lid; removing the lid from the mold; stripping the product from the mold; and separately discharging the product and the empty mold.