Abstract: The invention concerns a pressing belt for separators which include a hollow drum having a perforated outer surface around which an endless flexible pressing belt is partially wrapped under pressure to form a pull-in or input zone with the drum. Separators of this kind serve to separate the flowable components from the less flowable components of material mixtures and are principally used in the food industry. In order to improve the wear and thus the durability of the belt, it is provided with a multi-layer structure with a high-tenacity intercalation and an upper layer, the material characteristics of the various layers being adaptable to the precise nature of the application and thereby allowing the durability to be optimised.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating mixed material of different flowability comprises a hollow drum driven to rotate and having a perforated outer drum surface, about a portion of which is wrapped an endless compression belt adapted to apply pressure onto the hollow drum. For stripping material which remains on the outer surface of the hollow drum after compression, a stripping blade is provided which is arranged to float essentially radially with respect to the drum.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for processing the bodies of slaughtered poultry and thereby removing meat from the skeleton, specifically in the region of the clavicle (clavicula). The apparatus has a conveyor with saddles for carrying and conveying the poultry body with the breastbone directed upwards and the clavicle leading. In order to remove the meat from the branches of the clavicle, a block having groove-shaped recesses is inserted between the clavicle branches such that the branches slip into the recesses and lie flush with the flank surfaces. Scraping knives are then guided over the flank surfaces to separate the meat from the clavicle. In order to avoid the scraping knives from catching broken or stretched clavicles and thus push bone splinters into the meat, pressing elements are provided which operate directly upstream of the scraping knives and ensure that any broken bone pieces are pushed together with the rest of the clavicle branches into the recesses.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and apparatus for preparing for detaching meat from the extremities of a slaughtered animal, particularly the legs of poultry. In this method, the meat is initially at least partially detached from the bone structure at the rear side of the extremity from its proximal end to its distal end to form a cavity and then the meat layer surrounding the bone structure is cut open with an incision made from the outside of the extremity towards the cavity. The partial detachment of meat is performed by a curved spike-shaped element, which is inserted between the muscle meat and bone in the region of the proximal end of the extremity and advanced through the extremity along the rear side of the bone structure up to the distal end. The spike-shaped element subsequently serves as a counter support for a knife, which is guided from outside to cut open the meat layer surrounding the bone structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a separating apparatus for separating a mixture of materials of different flowability for preparing foodstuffs. The apparatus includes a hollow drum having a perforated circumferential surface around a portion of which is wrapped an endless presser belt forming a compression zone for the material to be processed. The belt is pressed against the drum by a presser roller having a hub body around which a tubular cylindrical body forms the roller surface. The cylindrical body is supported in its middle portion by spherical supporting element mounted on the hub body. Thus when the belt is subjected to non-uniform stresses due to the uneven consistency of fed material which in turn causes the deformation and unparallel rotation of the drum and the presser roller, the cylindrical body automatically adjusts its position on said spherical supporting element to restore parallel motion.

Abstract: In a method for mechanically gaining flesh from poultry bodies and an apparatus for carrying out this method, a series of tools are employed that are arranged along a conveyor (1) which has supporting elements (4) for supporting poultry bodies (58). These tools are formed with the aim of achieving a high quality end product at a high yield that is appealing to the eye. The processing of the poultry bodies (58), which are conveyed and securely held by the supporting elements (4), is performed sequentially using controllable scraping elements, stop elements, scraping blades, knives and strippers which loosen the connection between the skeleton (69) and the fillet flesh in a specific order.

Abstract: A device is described relating to separating mixed substances of differing flowabilities, in particular for the purpose of processing foodstuffs. The processing takes place in a device by which an elastic presser belt is pressed onto the periphery of a hollow separating drum with a perforated wall, so that the substance to be processed consisting of the previously mentioned composition and located between the presser belt and the hollow separating drum is separated into a phase of easily and a phase of less easily flowable components. The present concept provides for the use of two presser belt systems, which are operative one in series with and downstream of the other and influence a hollow separating drum, thus offering the possibility of using presser belts of different softness as well as, in the case of offset arrangement of the presser belt systems, use of varying perforations in the respectively associated circumferential areas.

Abstract: A presser belt separator for separating a mixture of flowable and non-flowable constituents has a pressure belt that is driven downstream to engage part of a circumferential surface of a perforated drum. A belt pressing structure and a presser roller presses the belt against the surface of the drum to form a draw-in wedge for drawing in the material to be processed between the presser belt and the perforated drum. The belt presser has a surface contour that engages the belt to form a curvature in the central area of the presser belt. The surface contour decreases in curvature from an upstream region of the belt presser to a downstream region thereof. The presser structure is also resiliently urged against the perforated drum by force-adjustable pressure springs.

Abstract: A separating apparatus employs a foraminous drum with a resilient belt forming a nip therebetween. A take-up roller upstream of the nip is rotatably supported about a center of rotation that is parallel to, but offset from a central axis of the take-up roller. As the wobbling roller rotates, it constantly changes the point on the circumference of the foraminous drum at which contact is made with the resilient belt. This overcomes a tendency for entering items to bridge the nip.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for delivering pasty substances in portions of predetermined weight and/or volume. The problem is to provide an ergonomically optimized apparatus of the continuously functioning type, which is solved essentially in that the storage hopper and the conveyor are laterally associated with one another, the outlet port of the latter being higher than its inlet port and the hopper being mounted on a pivoting device, part of which forms a closure for a conveyor housing.

Abstract: The invention concerns the gilling area of needle bar drawing devices (gill boxes) for card slivers which gilling area comprises needle bars provided with needles, carried by flexible driving elements and rotatingly driven. In a gilling area whose needle bars are carried by belts, especially toothed belts, as driving elements, it is suggested to arrange support elements for the needle bars to be clamped positively to the driving element.

Abstract: In a needle bar drawing device (gill box) for the drawing of card slivers bars carrying needles are led without being connected to each other. In a device which, according to today's terminology, is to be identified as a push bar draw frame pairs of driven toothed discs engaging each other with their toothed peripheries are so arranged that they almost totally cover the whole orbit of the needle bars with their toothing engaging the shafts of the latter.

Abstract: The invention concerns a needle bar draw frame or gill box with a needle field or gilling area of needle bars carried by chains. With the aim of attaining the usual performances in respect of speed and drawing ratio at the same quality also in the case of voluminous short-staple slivers with draw frames operating with an upper and a lower needle field, control means engaging from above into the needle field are used in a draw frame provided merely with a lower needle field. These control means are constructed as bristle-like holding down devices which are arranged particularly immediately upstream of a pair of drawing rollers and possibly shortly downstream of a pair of entry rollers, while the central region is controlled in the usual manner by a bar roller or bar chain.

Abstract: A needle rod for use in needle bar drawing devices, also termed and known as gill boxes is proposed to comprise needle plate segments (7) which are releasably connectable to a carrier bar (2) and which have a profile of T, Z or Y shaped cross-section. The needles (12) are bent approximately at right angles in the region of their shafts (13) and are securely connected to the carrier plate (8) not only with the free ends (14) of the same but also with the parts of the shafts (13) directed towards the needle tip (15).

Abstract: Apparatus for depositing a sliver of wool into a sliver can with a coiler plate rotated with high circumferential speed. The coiler plate has a pair of calender cylinders excentrically arranged in it and a nozzle for the central inlet of the slivers. One single wire race ball bearing carries the coiler plate and is surrounded by a tooth belt pulley fixed to the latter, thus enabling the tooth belt to run in the plane of rotation of the wire race of the ball bearing. A guiding device for the sliver is arranged at the top of the coiler plate between the nozzle and the nip of the calender cylinders and comprises a pipe socket affixed to the coiler plate and a sliding pipe telescopically slidable along the free end of the pipe socket and being beveled at its lower end.