Abstract: A mounting ring installation system including a torque multiplier introduced to a grinder head to aid in the installation and removal of the mounting ring which holds the grinding plate system securely into the grinder head. The torque multiplying device can have multiple sources of input power including human power or a mechanical source and can be installed on a variety of grinder types and sizes.

Abstract: An extrusion dryer for a rubbery polymer includes a cylinder equipped with a hopper for injection of the rubbery polymer at one end and a die at the other end. A screw is rotatably arranged inside of the cylinder, the screw having a shaft and a spiral flight formed on an outer surface of the shaft. The shaft includes multiple zones, each including a conveyance section and a compression section. In the zone closest to the die, the outer diameter of the shaft at the conveyance section is smaller than the outer diameter at the compression section.

Abstract: Disclosed is a meat grinder. According to the technical solution of this disclosure, food is placed into a processing cavity through a material inlet, and after the food is fallen to a side of a propeller away from a cutter head, the propeller is configure to propel the food to a cutter. The food is pressed against the cutter head and the food on the cutter head is cut by the cutter, and the food in discharge holes is squeeze outed by the propeller. Because the propeller is rotatably connected to the cutter head through the wear part, it may prevent an end of the propeller facing the cutter head from rubbing directly against the cutter head and causing black powder, so as to avoid the risk of contamination of the meat and affect the user's experience.

Abstract: An installation for moulding of three dimensional products from a mass of pumpable foodstuff material includes a pump having at least one pump chamber, a pump drive, and a moulding device including a mould drum, a mould member drive for moving the mould drum along a path, and a mass feed member. The mass feed member has a chamber with an inlet, a discharge mouth facing the mould member at the fill position along the path of the mould drum, an orificed grinder body and multiple mobile grinder members each arranged at one of the distinct positions of the mold cavities and cooperating with the grinding face of the orificed grinder body. The installation is advantageously employed for the manufacture of meat products from a pumpable meat mass for the manufacture of meat patties.

Abstract: A meat grinding reclamation system is disclosed herein. The system uses a conical feed screw. The conical feed screw is provided with a shaft and two flights. The first flight changes from a constant diameter to an expanding diameter. The second flight is provided co-helically along the shaft with a portion of the first flight. As both flights expand in diameter, meat processed through the meat grinding reclamation system accelerates, dislodging undesirable material such as gristle from the meat, before the meat decreases in velocity to present the meat for further processing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an mass distribution device for supplying a mass of foodstuff starting material to one or more cavities of a mold drum for molding products from the mass, comprising a base member which extends partially around the outer cylindrical circumference of the drum and which has an introduction area through which the mass is the fed to the cavities. The invention further relates to a molding device and to a process for operating the inventive mass distribution device.

Abstract: A food mincer providing improved features. The suction base includes a control ring providing an improved visual indication of its position. The plunger to feed the food is formed as a hollow container having a sealing lid to provide a storage area for accessories. The feed screw is formed in a multi-step molding process to allow for closer tolerances, which in turn allows for a simple gasket seal to be used. The feed screw and fan blade include a mating configuration only when the fan blade is in the proper orientation, such that if the fan blade is assembled in the incorrect orientation the extrusion grids may not be assembled.

Abstract: A grinding machine for grinding foodstuffs, 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 is located downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. The separator assembly includes a tapered, perforated separator chamber that receives the mixture of soft material and hard material, in combination with a rotatable separator screw located within the separator chamber. Rotation of the separator screw functions to separate the soft material from the hard material and force the soft material through the perforations in the separator chamber. An adjustment arrangement enables the axial position of the separator screw to be adjusted within the separator chamber.

Abstract: A recycling machine includes a main frame, a sieve barrel, a pressing cylinder, an end disk, a propeller shaft, a cutting device and an output device. The sieve barrel has a receiving chamber and a plurality of sieving apertures. The pressing cylinder has a receiving space and a plurality of toothed pressing portions. The end disk has a plurality of extruding holes. The propeller shaft has a first helical blade, a buffering portion and a second helical blade. Thus, the reused materials are forced into and revolved in the sieve barrel by rotation of the first helical blade to proceed a first-stage dehydration process, and are compressed in the buffering space between the buffering portion and the receiving chamber to proceed a second-stage dehydration process so that the reused materials are dehydrated completely.

Abstract: A grinding machine has a shearing chamber that includes one or more edges that provide fulcrum points against which frozen block of material, such as frozen blocks of meat, can be held against during a reduction or shearing process. The edges may be arranged to limit the advancement of reduced blocks of material to provide more control on the size of the ground material that is ultimately output by the grinding machine. The grinding machine may also include an expansion zone into which reduced blocks can be temporarily held to accommodate volume increases during the reduction process. A feed screw advances the frozen blocks through the shearing chamber and includes pressure fighting to help shear material from the frozen blocks. The feed screw may include a knife holder that provides support for a knife held therein against the lateral forces experienced by the knife as the knife shears material adjacent the orifice plate.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for accelerating food product and decreasing pressure of the product in order to cause the product to be stretched aligning the fibers of the product.

Abstract: A grinding machine has a shearing chamber that includes one or more edges that provide fulcrum points against which frozen block of material, such as frozen blocks of meat, can be held against during a reduction or shearing process. The edges may be arranged to limit the advancement of reduced blocks of material to provide more control on the size of the ground material that is ultimately output by the grinding machine. The grinding machine may also include an expansion zone into which reduced blocks can be temporarily held to accommodate volume increases during the reduction process. A feed screw advances the frozen blocks through the shearing chamber and includes pressure fighting to help shear material from the frozen blocks. The feed screw may include a knife holder that provides support for a knife held therein against the lateral forces experienced by the knife as the knife shears material adjacent the orifice plate.

Abstract: A device for transporting and processing foodstuffs, in particular meat, includes a feeding device, a grinder with an input and an outlet, and a drive element to drive cutting elements situated in a housing of the grinder. The cutting elements are situated in the housing of the grinder in such a way that the cutting elements can be removed from the housing of the grinder through the outlet by means of a force applied to the side of the input.

Abstract: A grinding machine has a shearing chamber that includes one or more edges that provide fulcrum points against which frozen block of material, such as frozen blocks of meat, can be held against during a reduction or shearing process. The edges may be arranged to limit the advancement of reduced blocks of material to provide more control on the size of the ground material that is ultimately output by the grinding machine. The grinding machine may also include an expansion zone into which reduced blocks can be temporarily held to accommodate volume increases during the reduction process. A feed screw advances the frozen blocks through the shearing chamber and includes pressure fighting to help shear material from the frozen blocks. The feed screw may include a knife holder that provides support for a knife held therein against the lateral forces experienced by the knife as the knife shears material adjacent the orifice plate.

Abstract: A grinding machine has a shearing chamber that includes one or more edges that provide fulcrum points against which frozen block of material, such as frozen blocks of meat, can be held against during a reduction or shearing process. The edges may be arranged to limit the advancement of reduced blocks of material to provide more control on the size of the ground material that is ultimately output by the grinding machine. The grinding machine may also include an expansion zone into which reduced blocks can be temporarily held to accommodate volume increases during the reduction process. A feed screw advances the frozen blocks through the shearing chamber and includes pressure fighting to help shear material from the frozen blocks. The feed screw may include a knife holder that provides support for a knife held therein against the lateral forces experienced by the knife as the knife shears material adjacent the orifice plate.

Abstract: A grinding machine has a shearing chamber that includes one or more edges that provide fulcrum points against which frozen block of material, such as frozen blocks of meat, can be held against during a reduction or shearing process. The edges may be arranged to limit the advancement of reduced blocks of material to provide more control on the size of the ground material that is ultimately output by the grinding machine. The grinding machine may also include an expansion zone into which reduced blocks can be temporarily held to accommodate volume increases during the reduction process. A feed screw advances the frozen blocks through the shearing chamber and includes pressure flighting to help shear material from the frozen blocks. The feed screw may include a knife holder that provides support for a knife held therein against the lateral forces experienced by the knife as the knife shears material adjacent the orifice plate.

Abstract: A pair of lugs in an opening of a grinding head of a grinding machine and a pair of corresponding openings in an orifice plate of a grinding machine are disclosed to properly orient the plate in the head during assembly. The lugs are preferably of two different sizes so that the orifice plate will only fit into the head in one orientation. The lugs may differ in size such that the person assembling the grinding machine will be able to visualize the correct orientation based on the size of the lugs and corresponding openings.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a drive structure on which are mounted both a first blade carrier and a second blade carrier. The first blade carrier has a first blade facing a cutting surface of a first screen portion, and is mounted on the drive structure so that the first blade is moveable along a first positioning axis with respect to the cutting surface of the first screen portion. The second blade carrier has a second blade facing a cutting surface of a second screen portion, and is mounted on the drive structure so that the second blade is moveable along a second positioning axis with respect to the cutting surface of the second screen portion. A first pressure is used to vary the force with which the first blade presses against the first screen portion and a second fluid pressure is used to vary the force with which the second blade presses against the second screen portion.

Abstract: A device for producing and processing food, in particular meat, includes at least one perforated plate (P) having holes through which the food can be pressed. The perforated plate, (P) is made of two parts, for example, a carrier and an insert, and a press element, for example, a blade which is guided along the insert, is associated with the insert. The insert deviates, in a minimal manner, with heat arising between the insert and the press element.

Abstract: A wear distributing arrangement for reduction of wear in parts of a grinding machine is disclosed. The arrangement includes the provision of multiple corresponding projections and recesses at evenly spaced radial locations around the circumference of any two parts in a rotating assembly designed to be disassembled and reassembled. Parts bearing projections are reassembled into parts bearing recesses in a random fashion, so that wear to one portion of a part does not prematurely wear it.

Abstract: A meat mincing machine and a method of producing minced foodstuffs, in particular minced meat, with an inlet, at least one blade on a following perforated disc, as well as with a separating device for separating and drawing off hard constituents wherein, to improve the weight accuracy, it has a device for the determination of the drawn-off amount of separated product.

Abstract: The invention relates to a meat processing machine which is used for mincing, filling, degassing and/or mixing fresh and/or frozen meat. Said machine also comprises a fat analysing device (7, 8) for determining the fat content in said meat.

Abstract: An assembly for providing constant force between a knife assembly and an orifice plate of a grinding machine is disclosed. The assembly comprises a stop in the grinding head of the machine past which the orifice plate cannot be inserted and a tensioning device for maintaining a constant tension of the knife assembly against the orifice plate.

Abstract: An orifice plate for a grinding machine is disclosed as having removal slots or relief areas for ease in removal of the plate from the grinding head. The slots may be aligned with recesses in the head that allow easy insertion of a removal tool. A number of embodiments are contemplated, some of which do not require a recess in the head to be present, and others which may require a recess but do not require alignment.

Abstract: The meat shredder includes a hopper made from stainless steel or other suitable stainless, food-safe, non-corrosive and easily to clean material. The hopper has a cover that can be releasably latched to the open top of the hopper. The hopper is rotatably mounted on a stand. A motor is attached to one side of the hopper and has a shaft that extends into the hopper. A spindle is mounted on the shaft and disposed inside the hopper. Rows of triangular-shaped extend radially from the spindle, with adjacent rows being canted in opposite directions. The motor rotates the spindle to shred the meat. A handle may be attached to the motor and used to manually rotate both the motor and the hopper on the stand to shake up or redistribute the meat within the hopper for thorough shredding.

Abstract: A helical discharge flute formed in the sides of a collection cone of a grinding machine is disclosed. The collection cone has a collection area and a discharge area, with a discharge tube at the most downstream end. The helical discharge flute cooperates with an auger located through the bore of the collection discharge area to create a restricted flow of material into the flute. In this manner, only hard particles are removed from the collection cavity of the collection cone and discharged to the discharge tube.

Abstract: In the case of a cutting assembly having at least one perforated or cutting plate which has through channels and having at least one cutting knife which is assigned to the perforated or cutting plate, the cutting knife being connected with a rotatable shaft in a rotationally fixed manner, it is provided that the perforated or cutting plate exhibits through channels at its centre and distributed over its entire extent. Meat products or other products which must have a constant consistency over their entire extent with regard to the product mass can be produced with a cutting assembly of this type.

Abstract: There is described a rotary knife for use in a cutting apparatus, comprising a central hub adapted to be mounted with respect to a rotational driveshaft to define an axis of rotation; and a plurality of blades extending outwards from the hub; each blade having respective channels extending across a surface of the blade in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation. There is also described a cutting apparatus having a rotary knife comprising a central hub adapted to be mounted with respect to a rotational driveshaft to define an axis of rotation; and a plurality of blades extending outwards from the hub; each blade having respective channels extending across a surface of the blade in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of rotation.

Abstract: Flutes or channels are provided at the ramped entryways of an orifice plate of a grinding machine head. Ramped entryways lead from the grinding surface of the orifice plate to one or more hard material collection passages located toward the center of the plate. Providing flutes at the ramped entryway, rather than a smooth surface, helps control the flow of hard material into the hard material collection passages by creating friction to maintain hard materials in the entryway area once collected there, and by encouraging flow of hard materials toward the collection passage.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for separating and transporting away raw materials once they have been ground, from cutting tools embodied as separating/cutting units and pertaining to machines for meat mincing, especially mincers. The inventive device is embodied as an adaptable tool and can be associated with separating and cutting units (1) of mincers. Said device is characterized by a transporting tube (4) and a discharge screw (3) arranged inside said tube and driven by external means. Furthermore, the adaptable tool and the discharge screw can be positioned and arranged in different positions for each separating and cutting unit (1).

Abstract: Devices, assemblies, and compression members for regulating the pressure or dwell time within separating machines that separate hard material from soft material are disclosed. The device utilizes a compression assembly comprising a compression member, a base member, a primary key, a primary key receptor, a secondary key, and a secondary key receptor for controlling the amount of material that is forced through a conduit. The primary key, the primary key receptor, the secondary key, and the secondary key receptor secure the compression member to the base member. The devices, assemblies, and compression members of the present invention regulate the pressure exerted on the separating machine by the compressed hard and soft materials and also regulate the dwell time of the hard and soft materials within the separating machine in a manner that reduces the difficulty, expense, and associated time of replacing worn compression members.

Abstract: A device for separating the hard components for a grinder used in the field of the food industry, and more particularly of the mincing of meat, downstream of one or several cutting assemblies, includes a grid for stopping hard components which is associated with a separating cutter of for draining hard components towards the center, in order to cause them to pass into a collecting tube which is screwed into a supporting grid or spider according to an adjustable depth. The collecting tube includes, an axial recess capable of receiving the end of a driving shaft of the cutters of the grinder, so that the latter can be held transversely and rotate in it and, peripherally with respect to the axial recess, at least one channel allowing the transit of hard components.

Abstract: The invention discloses a screw conveyor for the transport of flowable substances and/or lumps of material, comprising a rotatable first screw (1) provided with helical windings (2) arranged in a housing (3) with an inlet opening and an outlet opening, said housing (3) comprising an inlet chamber (4) and a pumping chamber (5) between said inlet and outlet openings and at least in the pumping chamber (5) comprising a second screw (6) provided with helical windings (7) and arranged for rotation in the opposite direction of the first screw (1), said screws (1, 6) in said pumping chamber (5) providing a positive displacement pumping function by mutual engagement between the two screws (1, 6) when said rotatable first screw (1) is rotated in a first sense of rotation, and furthermore provided with a cutting device (10, 11) downstream of the pumping chamber and housed within a knife house (13) comprising an internal channel (21), where said knife house (13) is connected to said outlet opening of the screw conveyor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for comminuting a good to be comminuted, in particular in the meat processing industry. The device is provided with cutting assemblies (A, C), each comprising an apertured plate and a rotating cutting head which rotates in front of said plate and which has cutting blades. The cutting assemblies have an adjustable gap between the apertured plate and the cutting blades of the cutting head, respectively. The apertured plates are held against a stop located in a common regulating body. The regulating body is mounted in such a way as to be axially displaceable in relation to the non-displaceable cutting heads, hereby enabling the distance between the apertured plates and the corresponding cutting head to be adjusted simultaneously. At least one other apertured plate is located between the two apertured plates and is supported relative to the adjacent apertured plates by distance rings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for separating the hard components for a grinder used in the field of the food industry, and more particularly of the mincing of meat, it comprises, downstream of one or several cutting assemblies, a grid (1) for stopping said hard components which is associated with a separating cutter (2) designed capable of draining said hard components towards the center, in order to cause them to pass into a collecting tube (4) which is screwed into a supporting grid or spider (5) according to an adjustable depth.

Abstract: The invention relates to a meat processing machine which is used for mincing, filling, degassing and/or mixing fresh and/or frozen meat. Said machine also comprises a fat analysing device (7,8) for determining the fat content in said meat.

Abstract: A mincing disc used in a meat mincing machine having partial areas in a field of perforations of the mincing disc which are arrange in an imagined corridor at both sides of the central through opening which extends over the surface of the mincing disc, encloses the central through opening of the disc, and touches the ventral through opening with both linear boundary lines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for chopping organic cut products, especially a meat grinder, comprising an inlet and an outlet for the cut products, at least one perforated disc (1) having a corresponding cutting head (2) and a drive shaft driving the cutting head (2), the cutting head (2) having at least one blade holder (3) with at least one blade (4) that cooperates with the perforated disc (1).

Abstract: A grinder, which is designed to cut frozen or fresh or fresh meat, has a set of blades, comprising a carving blade (2) and a perforated disc (4), in-between which a blade (3) is arranged in a defined fixed intermediate space. The blade (3) is spring-loaded and is pressed against the perforated disc with a preset force, so that wear can remain constant throughout the service life of the blade, and the service life of the blade can be enhanced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a grinder having a worm conveyor and a set of blades consisting of a first carving blade arranged after the worm conveyor, an additional, second carving blade arranged after the first carving blade, a perforated disc arranged at a fixed distance after the second carving blade, and a driven blade arranged between the second carving blade and the perforated disc, the set of blades being clamped with a cap nut in the worm housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for comminuting a good to be comminuted, in particular in the meat processing industry. The device is provided with cutting assemblies (A, C), each comprising an apertured plate and a rotating cutting head which rotates in front of said plate and which has cutting blades. The cutting assemblies have an adjustable gap between the apertured plate and the cutting blades of the cutting head, respectively. The apertured plates are held against a stop located in a common regulating body. The regulating body is mounted in such a way as to be axially displaceable in relation to the non-displaceable cutting heads, hereby enabling the distance between the apertured plates and the corresponding cutting head to be adjusted simultaneously. At least one other apertured plate is located between the two apertured plates and is supported relative to the adjacent apertured plates by distance rings.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mincing disc used in a meat mincing machine.

Abstract: The present invention relates to grinding machines, particularly for grinding frozen and fresh meat, with a set of cutters displaying at least one blade.

Abstract: In a comminution machine, which is particularly used in industry, with an emulsifier (3), a particularly simple structure with a single driving device for conveying, cutting and emulsifying the material to be chopped is guaranteed when, between a support body (32a) on a stator (32) of the emulsifier (3) and a fulling body (33a) on the corresponding rotor (33), there is a successively narrowing gap (36a) area in which the material to be chopped is exposed to a further constant fulling comminution under pressure. The rotor (33) is rotationally connected with the shaft (4) of the cutting and conveying device of the comminution device. On the rotor (33) a co-axial hub (33c) connected to the fulling body, is provided, with which hub the rotor (33) is fitted on the shaft (4).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a grinder having a worm conveyor and a set of blades consisting of a first carving blade arranged after the worm conveyor, an additional, second carving blade arranged after the first carving blade, a perforated disc arranged at a fixed distance after the second carving blade, and a driven blade arranged between the second carving blade and the perforated disc, the set of blades being clamped with a cap nut in the worm housing.

Abstract: A worm for a chopper is formed of an elongated stainless steel member having at least one convolution extending thereabout for contacting and moving meat when the elongated stainless steel member is rotated. A meat contacting outer surface portion of the elongated stainless steel member is coated in tin for reducing build up of fat on the meat contacting outer surface portion during operation.