Abstract: The invention relates to a method for dosing a pattern of food material onto an object e.g. a tray or other food material continuously moved. The apparatus for carrying out the method comprises a dosing assembly comprising a substantially cylindrical tube element having a plurality of circumferential openings defining the pattern and being mounted rotatably; and a hollow core element with at least one supply inlet and at least one discharge orifice, the core element being positioned substantially in the tube element with the discharge orifice facing downwardly, so that when the tube element is rotated about its longitudinal axis the openings are in turn aligned with and brought adjacent to the discharge orifice allowing food material introduced into the core element to be discharged through the opening created.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for dosing a pattern of food material onto an object e.g. a tray or other food material continuously moved. The apparatus comprises a dosing assembly comprising a substantially cylindrical tube element having a plurality of circumferential openings defining the pattern and being mounted rotatably; and a hollow core element with at least one supply inlet and at least one discharge orifice, the core element being positioned substantially in the tube element with the discharge orifice facing downwardly, so that when the tube element is rotated about its longitudinal axis the openings are in turn aligned with and brought adjacent to the discharge orifice allowing food material introduced into the core element to be discharged through the opening created.

Abstract: Articles of irregular shapes and sizes are stabilized and weighed by being transported by two upstream to downstream successive pairs of adjacent parallel conveyors which are suitable for transporting the articles and which are inclined to one another at their adjacent longitudinal edges so that their upper surfaces form an acute angle, the upstream pair of conveyors forming a stabilizing unit and the downstream pair of conveyors providing a load-bearing platform of a weighing machine to form a weighing unit.

Abstract: A gripping device, which is particularly useful for removing pin bones, particularly from salmonoid fish, has a pair of matable gripping jaws wherein one of the jaws is held in a fixed position relative to a cylinder and the other jaw is pivotally connected to the cylinder such that it is urged to open and close the pair of jaws. The device provides for retracting and extending the gripping jaws.