Abstract: An apparatus for cutting foodstuffs, such as meat, and particularly bacon and sausage, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a carrying body from which holding flanges extend forwardly. Front and rear guide frames are supported in the holding flanges. Lattice knives move perpendicularly to one another and to the feed direction of the material to be cut. The guide frames are secured by a clamping mechanism which is supported on the carrying body and each have complimentary oblique side surfaces. The complimentary oblique side surfaces of the guide frames may be tightly clamped together so as to seal the spaces between the guide frames and the carrying body and thereby prevent the escape of the meat being cut.

Abstract: Apparatus for treating meat, in particular for the purpose of improving its ability to absorb a curing liquid prior to cooking, comprises a frame mounting at least two spaced-apart side-by-side rollers which are rotated in opposite senses as meat to be treated is passed therebetween. To improve the effectiveness of treatment, the rollers are formed as pressure rollers arranged such that the spacing therebetween automatically varies to accommodate different thicknesses of meat. Preferably, each pressure roller is removably mounted in the frame by connecting one end of the roller to a drive shaft by a quick-release coupling and by mounting the other end in a bearing assembly releasably connected to the frame.

Abstract: An apparatus for pressure-treating meat, in particular uncooked ham before pickling brine is introduced, is provided with two opposed, rotating pressure rollers supported in a housing, which are provided on their jacket face with protrusions, teeth or studs or ribs extending along or obliquely with respect to the jacket lines. The grooves located between the studs are embodied in gabled fashion, as seen in cross section, on at least one of the pressure rollers. The circumferential circle through the tips of the gables of the grooves may be smaller by 0.5-5 mm, and preferably 1-2 mm, than the circumferential circle around the studs.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting foodstuffs and the like. The apparatus comprises an open-end cutting compartment of rectangular cross-sectional configuration provided with a fixed lateral wall and an oppositely positioned movable lateral press wall. Positioned above and communicating with the cutting compartment is a foodstuff holding compartment from which foodstuff is fed to the cutting compartment. A plate for covering the opening between the holding and cutting compartments is associated with a compacting piston which retracts and repositions the press wall for pre-pressing foodstuff in the cutting compartment. One end of the cutting compartment is provided with means for cutting the foodstuff while the other end is provided with a piston for forcing the foodstuff through the cutting compartment and against the cutting means. A compacting wall for contacting the foodstuff during lateral pre-pressing of the foodstuff is positioned in front of and is adapted to be contacted by the press wall.

Abstract: Apparatus for slicing and/or dicing bacon has an elongated U-shaped trough of stainless steel which receives pieces of bacon and wherein a pusher advances the material to be comminuted forwardly into the range of one or more knives. The trough is removably installed in the chamber of a frame which consists of cast aluminum.