Abstract: A comminuting machine for comminuting meat and the like and especially for material which has been previously cut into small pieces. The comminuting machine includes at least one cutting unit. A feed pump is arranged in front of the inlet of the comminuting machine and a vacuum suction device is connected to the interior of the feed pump. A separating device for solid objects, especially a separating device for ferromagnetic objects including at least one electromagnet, is mounted between the feed pump and the comminuting machine.

Abstract: A cutting unit for a comminuting machine, particularly for meat. The cutting unit includes a perforated disk and a drivable cutting knife body with cutting edges which interact with the perforated disk. The cutting knife body has additional cutting edges which extend approximately in radial direction. The additional cutting edges interact with approximately radially extending counter-cutting edges of the machine housing. The additional cutting edges may be provided in the form of grooves on the free ends of arms of a star-shaped cutting knife body. The counter-cutting edges may be provided on a housing ring which can be easily replaced and repaired. The additional cutting edges and the counter-cutting edges do not contact each other. The cutting edges preferably extend parallel to each other and are located on an imaginary outer truncated cone-shaped generated surface of the cutting knife body and an inner truncated cone-shaped surface of the machine housing.

Abstract: A machine for filling pasteous media, particularly sausage stuffing, into a hose-shaped sleeve, comprises a filling pump having a pressure side, a filling pipe for receiving a sausage sleeve and connected with the pressure side of the filling pump and having a free end, a braking ring arranged so that a medium is pulled through the sleeve between the braking ring and the free end of the filling pipe, an electrically controlled motor which intermittently drives at least the pump, and a microcomputer which controls the motor.

Abstract: A pump, particularly, for pasteous masses, includes a rotatable outer wheel provided with a plurality of inner teeth, a pinion rotatable inside the outer wheel eccentrically thereto and having a plurality of outer teeth, the outer wheel and the pinion forming an intermediate space therebetween, a pressure seqment located in the intermediate space between the outer wheel and the pinion, an inlet and an outlet which are offset relative one another in direction of rotation, and a filling device connected with the inlet, the filling device including a filling container and a feeding element arranged in the filling container and having a feeding direction so as to feed a mass toward the inlet.

Abstract: A meat comminuting machine has a cutting unit which includes at least one stationary perforated plate and a mobile associated cutter head arranged on a driving shaft, which is driven by a driving motor, and a device for an axial displacement of the driving shaft which supports the cutter head in dependence of the loading of the driving motor.

Abstract: To achieve automatic removal of a sausage link string 6 from a feeding device 3, 4 and to attain a delivery to curing rods 11, hooks 7 are supported at a revolving moving chain 8 to be rotatable in their longitudinal axis and to be pivotable transversely to the chain longitudinal direction. By means of appropriate control devices in the form of a rotary lever 18 which coacts with a control edge 20 and a disk 23, and a block-shaped guide link 19, which rests upon a guide rail 21, the hook 7 is moved into its different positions. Herein the hook 7 is in its lowermost pivoting position during reception of the individual loops of the sausage link string 6, and the bent-over hook end 16 is oriented towards the front in conveyance direction and grips a loop from beneath.

Abstract: An apportioning apparatus, particularly for dispensing discrete metered quantities of comestible material, such as sausage meat, wherein a cutter is first moved parallel to a surface surrounding a nozzle outlet from which the comestible material is dispensed and wherein after cleanly cutting through the dispensed material emerging from the nozzle outlet, the cutter is advanced in a direction away from the nozzle outlet surface in order to effect a clean cutting process with the cutter then being returned to its initial position to commence a further cutting operation. The cutter is mounted to be driven and guided by an articulation mechanism which includes a power cylinder device and metering gear pumps operate to dispense the comestible material through one or a plurality of outlet nozzles at which the material is cut.

Abstract: In a sausage stuffing machine if the stuffed portion of a sausage casing bursts, for example in an area which is squeezed for forming a sausage end, the meat filling continues being discharged through a filling tube but is no longer capable of pulling off the gathered-up casing from the filling tube. With the further run of the pump, the sausage meat is spilled. By keeping the gathered-up casing, by means of an advance mechanism, compressed into a "block" and displacing it toward the mouth of the filling tube or toward a braking ring, proportionally to the stuffing of the casing, this advance can be transmitted through a motion transformer, to a pulse generator by which, with a constant advance, pulses are delivered at constant intervals. The pulses are received by a counter which is connectd to at least the drive of a feed pump for the sausage meat. If the casing bursts, the pulse generator stops and no pulses reach the counter.

Abstract: A rotary switch selects individual incoming transmissions which characterize the actual operation of amplifiers and like components within a data-transmission network.A memory is programmed with data characteristic of incoming transmissions which indicate proper operation of the components actually supervised. As the rotary switch selects an individual transmission, the transmission is interpreted and compared with the data stored in the memory. In the event that a defective component is detected, an alarm sounds and repairs can be quickly made since the individually defective component can be identified automatically.

Abstract: A mincing machine comprises a housing having an inlet for the material to be minced and a discharge for the minced material includes a mincing passage between the inlet and the discharge with a rotatable shaft therein having at least one rotatable mincing tool affixed thereto for rotation therewith in the mincing passage and including a centrifugal disc affixed to the shaft for rotation therewith at the entrance to the mincing passage which has a peripheral portion with a respective groove for collecting hard objects before they move into the mincing passage. The groove advantageously comprises an annular trough-shaped formation of the disc which includes an outer radial rim portion at the front end of the passage and a wall facing toward the mincing tools having a plurality of apertures therein through which the material passes for mincing.

Abstract: A lifting device, particularly for feeding a processing machine in the food industry, comprises a telescopic post which includes a plurality of telescopically extensible and retractable parts and a container support which is pivoted to the post. The container support includes a supporting arm which is shifted between a support position in which the arm extends substantially horizontally to support the material and a discharge position at which it is tilted by the movement of the telescopic parts relative to each other.

Abstract: The device is intended more particularly for closing sausage casings to separate individual sausages of a sausage strand, using clamps or clamping ties of strip material or wire. The closing device is connected to a manufacturing device for making clamps from a substantially continuous length of clamping material. The manufacturing device includes a cutting device, a feeder for feeding the length of clamp material intermittently to the cutting device for severing into individual clamping ties, a bending device operable to bend each clamping tie to provide a pair of substantially parallel legs, a clamping tie closing device operable to wrap each clamping tie around the tubular casing, and a guide operable to supply the bent clamps from the bending device to the closing device.

Abstract: Both large and small meat pieces and small meat pieces are processed by treating the pieces having relatively large bones to a coarse crushing operation to crush the bones and the meat to smaller sizes and discharging these smaller sizes into a preliminary fine crusher along with small meat pieces and smaller boned meat pieces of from 5 to 10 mm in size. Meat which is treated in the preliminary fine crusher is reduced to bone and meat sizes of from 0.5 to 1 mm. In addition, salt and ice is supplied to the preliminary fine crusher in order to dissipate part of the heat, preserve the meat and to add seasoning thereto. The sizes which are reduced are then directed with the salt, ice and water to a final fine crusher, where the products are reduced to an emulsified paste. The paste is then transmitted to a decanter in which the bone and fiber parts are separated from the meat, water and salt emulsion. The meat, water and salt emulsion may be fed directly to a machine for making sausages, for example.

Abstract: A plate for crushing machines comprises a circular perforated plate having a marginal annular area adjacent its periphery which includes a narrow strip which is not perforated and which is located at unequal radii from the center of the plate around its circumference. The non perforated zone comprises at least one narrow annular strip sector and one or more arched or loop like areas which extend outwardly at greater radii from the center of the axis than the sectors. The plate advantageously includes a central bore for facilitating its mounting in the crushing machine.