55results about "Meat pressing" patented technology

The present invention relates to a food-forming-apparatus with: a rotating drum (5) which comprises product cavities in which a food product is formed from a food mass and a food mass feed member (23), which comprises a housing with an infeed channel (24) and at least one upstream sealing area (25) and / or a downstream sealing area (26) and a flexible pressure plate (7) which is pressed against the outer surface of the drum and thereby provides a seal between the food mass member and the drum. The drum has at its outer surface a multitude of rows of cavities.

The invention discloses a processing device for meat ball food in the technical field of food processing. The processing device comprises a mixing box, a driving box, an extrusion plate, a fixed plateand a molding die plate. According to the invention, various raw materials for meat ball processing are put into the mixing box; the raw materials are fully mixed through a stirring shaft to enter amaterial guiding cavity and moving cavities; the mixed raw materials are completely pushed into extrusion grooves through moving assemblies to avoid waste caused by residual raw materials in moving grooves; a driving assembly and an extrusion block of an extrusion assembly move forwards, and cooperate with the molding die plate to fully extrude the raw materials; meanwhile, through cooperation oftwo semispherical grooves, the raw materials are extruded into balls; through a positioning motor, the molding die plate can move outwards under the action of the extrusion block, and gradually returns under the action of a spring and makes contact with the extrusion plate; and through rotation of the positioning motor, a positioning block is clamped again, and the molding die plate is tightly pressed on the extrusion plate.

A reconstructed bacon product includes meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies. The product includes a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments. A method of forming a reconstructed bacon product includes obtaining pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments and pork belly fat trimmings, macerating the pork belly lean trimmings, layering the pork belly lean trimmings and pork belly fat trimmings, compressing the layers, heat processing the layers in a mold to form a cohesive mass, and demolding the cohesive mass.

A method and apparatus for preparing a jerky food product. The method comprises: (a) preparing a raw meat to obtain a moldable meat dough; (b) contacting at least a portion of the meat dough with a jerky mold apparatus having a pre-determined geometric configuration, wherein a plurality of sectors are spatially separated and defined by supported partitions arranged in a pre-determined pattern; (c) causing at least one of the partitions of the jerky mold to impale the meat dough to dispose portions of the meat dough into at least one of the sectors, thus separating the meat dough into a plurality of meat segments having a size and shape corresponding to that of the sectors; (d) removing the meat segments from the jerky mold; and (e) treating the meat segments to produce a plurality of jerky pieces.

A method and apparatus for preparing a jerky food product. The method comprises: (a) preparing a raw meat to obtain a moldable meat dough; (b) contacting at least a portion of the meat dough with a jerky mold apparatus having a pre-determined geometric configuration, wherein a plurality of sectors are spatially separated and defined by supported partitions arranged in a pre-determined pattern; (c) causing at least one of the partitions of the jerky mold to impale the meat dough to dispose portions of the meat dough into at least one of the sectors, thus separating the meat dough into a plurality of meat segments having a size and shape corresponding to that of the sectors; (d) removing the meat segments from the jerky mold; and (e) treating the meat segments to produce a plurality of jerky pieces.

The present invention relates to a mold drum for molding products from a mass of food starting material. The mold drum comprises one or more cavities with a mold cavity wall having at least partially a porous structure, whereas each cavity is connected to a passage. The present invention further relates to a cleaning apparatus for the inventive mold drum with supporting means for supporting the axis of the drum. Additionally, the present invention relates to a process for cleaning the inventive drum.

The invention relates to a processing equipment of a meatball food. The processing equipment comprises a forming preformed hole and a fixing trapezoidal hole, wherein a stress dispersing baseplate is arranged at the bottom of the main body of the processing equipment; a buffer skidproof base is fixedly mounted at the bottom of the stress dispersing baseplate through a bolt; supporting fixing plates are respectively mounted at the front part and the rear part of the top of the stress dispersing baseplate through bolts; a bearing top plate is arranged at the top between the supporting fixing plates; a shaping water tank in a front-and-rear direction is fixedly mounted at the middle part of the top of the stress dispersing baseplate; and shaping water circulation interfaces with filter screens are respectively formed at the middle part of a front end surface and a rear end surface of the shaping water tank. According to the processing equipment disclosed by the invention, a fixed washing steel pipe and a washing rotating shaft are arranged, so that cleaning of residual raw materials adhered to a forming semi-spheroidal groove is facilitated; through the rotation of the washing rotating shaft, a washing banister brush is driven for rotary cleaning; besides, spraying is performed by three rows of washing spray heads on the fixed washing steel pipe; and the cleaning hydraulic cylinder moves up and down, and the washing rotating shaft canlift to the topmost through the cleaning hydraulic cylinder, so that the forming and making of the meatballs are not influenced.

A molding and cooking apparatus for pieces of stuffed product such as cooked hams, which includes one or more molding cavities long enough so that more than one piece of stuffed product can be introduced in the same molding cavity, inserting separators which help to shape the ends of the pieces of vacuum stuffed product, both ends of the cavities are open and are sealed during product cooking, which permits a quick discharge of the already cooked and cooled pieces when the cavities bottoms are unsealed, and permits the product to fall because of gravity onto a collecting tray, likewise a procedure is revealed on the efficient use of this apparatus herein disclosed.

The present invention relates to a mould drum for moulding products from a mass of food starting material. The mould drum comprises one or more cavities with a mould cavity wall having at least partially a porous structure, whereas each cavity is connected to a passage. The present invention further relates to a cleaning apparatus for the inventive mould drum with supporting means for supporting the axis of the drum. Additionally, the present invention relates to a process for cleaning the inventive drum.

The present invention relates to a system for picking up, conveying, and delivering a foodstuff product to a processing machine which preferably has an upright magazine tube, said system including: a handling device, a gripping device releasably attachable to the handling device, a transporting apparatus, and a control unit; wherein the transporting apparatus has a transporting portion on which the foodstuff product that is to be picked up by the gripping device may be positioned in a pick-up position allowing the foodstuff product to be picked up by the gripping device, and the control unit is connected at least to the handling device of the gripping device and to the transporting apparatus; wherein the control unit is configured for detecting when the foodstuff product to be picked up has reached the pick-up position.

The invention discloses a finished product forming integrated device for meat food processing and a forming method, and relates to the technical field of meat food processing. Pressing and demolding are convenient. The device specifically comprises a rotating motor, the output end of the rotating motor is rotationally connected with a rotating spindle, evenly-distributed supporting rods are fixed to the side wall of the top end of the rotating spindle, and a bearing seat is arranged at one ends of the supporting rods. The method comprises the following steps: mounting a corresponding die holder to the bottom of an extrusion plate according to requirements; and supplying meat food materials through a conveying pipe and then outputting the meat food materials into a molding cavity through an output head. By arranging the bearing seat, the bottom plate, a jacking spring and other structures, when meat food materials are placed on the bottom plate in the molding cavity, mutual attraction of a second magnetic attraction block and a first magnetic attraction block, working of a hydraulic cylinder and pressing forming can be utilized, after pressing is finished, the rotating motor drives the bearing seat to continue to rotate, and under the resilience force effect of the jacking spring, the food formed in the molding cavity is upwards ejected out.

The present invention relates to a mold drum for molding products from a mass of food starting material. The mold drum comprises one or more cavities with a mold cavity wall having at least partially a porous structure, whereas each cavity is connected to a passage. The present invention further relates to a cleaning apparatus for the inventive mold drum with supporting means for supporting the axis of the drum. Additionally, the present invention relates to a process for cleaning the inventive drum.

A mass-distributing device for supplying a mass of foodstuff starting materials suitable for consumption, in particular a meat mass, to one or more mould cavities of a moulding member for moulding three-dimensional products from the mass is provided. The device comprises a housing, which has an open side which can be turned towards the moulding member, in which a flexible abutment element for the housing to abut the moulding member is arranged. In the housing, a through-passage for the mass extends from an introduction opening in the housing to a discharge, which discharge opens at the open side of the housing. Pressure means are provided in order to position the flexible abutment element under pressure against the plane of the moulding member comprising one or more mould cavities, the pressure means being designed to set contact pressures in separate zones of the flexible abutment element.

A pressing device for pressing meat products, in particular frozen and / or partly frozen meat products, preferably fresh meat products and / or bacon, comprises a pressing chamber. The pressing chamber comprises a counter-element and a pressing member that is movable by a drive, wherein the pressing member can be moved from a starting position towards the counter-element into an end position in order to compress the product, and wherein the drive is configured to drive at least one eccentric cam, which is rotatable about an axis of rotation, in order to move the pressing member from the starting position into the end position, wherein the pressing member can be moved from the starting position into the end position by a rotation of the eccentric cam of more than 90 degrees.

The invention relates to meat product pressing equipment which comprises a meat pressing rack, a controller is arranged at the top of the meat pressing rack, a material receiving plate is further installed at the top of the meat pressing rack, a driving mechanism is arranged outside the controller, the bottom of the driving mechanism is connected with a pressing mechanism, and the pressing mechanism comprises a positioning cylinder, a pressing piece and a suction piece. The suction part comprises a suction pipe arranged in the pressing part, a partition plate is arranged in the suction pipe, a movable rod is slidably connected to the interior of the suction pipe, a piston plate is fixedly connected to the middle of the movable rod, a plug is fixedly connected to the bottom end of the movable rod, and the top end of the movable rod is fixedly connected to the inner top of the positioning cylinder. A damping ring enabling the movable rod to generate certain sliding resistance is arranged at the top of the suction pipe. The device achieves the beneficial effect of automatically sucking and discharging excessive moisture of meat products in the pressing process, effectively reduces the moisture content of the meat products, facilitates subsequent drying and processing, and prolongs the storage time of the meat products.

The invention provides a material distributing device for a meat strip extruder. The material distributing device comprises a support, a protective cover, a material distributing mechanism, a cutting mechanism and a controller; the support serves as an installation and supporting foundation of the protective cover, the material distributing mechanism and the cutting mechanism; one side of the protective cover is hinged to the support, and the protective cover protects the material distributing mechanism and the cutting mechanism; the material distributing mechanism comprises a material cavity, a material distributing cavity and a forming die; the outlet end of the material cavity communicates with the inlet end of the material distributing cavity; a material distributor assembly is fixed in the material distributing cavity; after meat paste enters the material cavity through the inlet end of the material cavity, the material cavity is filled with the meat paste; after the material cavity is filled with the meat paste, the meat paste enters the material distributor assembly of the material distributing cavity from the material cavity under the pressure of a feeding screw of the extruder, and the material distributor assembly continuously brings the meat paste to the forming die; and the cutting mechanism is fixedly connected with the material distributing cavity and used for cutting meat strips formed through the forming die. The material distributing device for the meat strip extruder can meet the forming requirements of one or more meat strips in different shapes and different sizes, and the situation of material breakage is avoided.

The present invention relates to a food-forming-apparatus with: a rotating drum which comprises product cavities in which a food product is formed from a food mass and a food mass feed member, which comprises a housing with an infeed channel and at least one upstream sealing area and / or a downstream sealing area and a flexible pressure plate which is pressed against the outer surface of the drum and thereby provides a seal between the food mass member and the drum. The drum has at its outer surface a multitude of rows of cavities.

A reconstructed bacon product includes meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies. The product includes a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments. A method of forming a reconstructed bacon product includes obtaining pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments and pork belly fat trimmings, macerating the pork belly lean trimmings, layering the pork belly lean trimmings and pork belly fat trimmings, compressing the layers, heat processing the layers in a mold to form a cohesive mass, and demolding the cohesive mass.

A device for producing shaped meat portions, the device including a sorting device for sorting meat into a first set of pieces having a weight which is below a desired weight, a second set of pieces having a weight which corresponds to a desired weight, and a third set of pieces having a weight which is above a desired weight. The device further includes a cutting device which cuts each of the third set of pieces to a desired weight so that the cut pieces having a desired weight define a set of selected meat pieces. A transport device transports the set of selected meat pieces and a freezing facility through which the transport device conveys the set of selected meat pieces and which freezes the set of selected meat pieces. The device further including a shaping device which presses or presses and punches the frozen set of selected meat pieces in a mold and thus transforms the frozen set of selected meat pieces into a final shape or a plurality of final shapes, wherein the shaping device produces in a controlled manner meat portions having a predefined weight and a predefined three-dimensional shape.

A device for making sausage spirals including a sausage blank attached with an end portion above a face of a vertically standing hub and wound into a sausage spiral by rotating it about the hub axis. The hub moves along a circumference of the rotating table wherein the following components are arranged behind one another along the circumference: an insertion station for the blank, a skewering station for skewering the finished sausage spiral and an ejection station for ejecting the sausage spiral from the machine.

A system (10) for analyzing and trimming irregularly shaped food products which are to be subsequently pressed into a three-dimensional shape (volume) and optionally thereafter sliced or otherwise portioned so as to achieve an optimum harvest, includes a conveyor (12) for carrying the workpieces (WP) to be trimmed past a scanning system (14) for scanning the workpiece (WP) to ascertain the physical characteristics of the workpiece (WP), including, for example, its three-dimensional shape, as well as its position on the conveyor (12), and then past a cutting station (26) for trimming the workpiece (WP) into a desired two-dimensional shape which represents an optimum shape for the workpiece for pressing the workpiece into a desired three-dimensional shape having at least one fixed or specified dimension or other physical specification. Thereafter, the workpiece can be transferred to a slicing station utilizing high speed cutters or sheers for portioning / slicing the workpiece.

The invention provides an automatic production equipment for meatball products, which comprises a meat grinder, a reamer component, a driving component, a front component and a forming component. The reamer assembly includes the auger shaft, the cutter plate and the stuffing orifice plate. The meat-grinding cylinder is rotatably connected with the cutting board, and the cutting board is connected with the stuffing orifice board. The driving assembly includes a first driving motor and a second driving motor, the first driving motor is drivingly connected with the auger shaft, and the second driving motor is drivingly connected with the cutting board. The front assembly includes a stirring box, a baffle plate, a rotating rod, a rotating driving part, a reciprocating driving part, several cutting units and several stirring units. The rotating rod is rotated and slidably connected with the mixing box. The rotating drive member is drivingly connected with the rotating rod. The reciprocating drive is drivingly connected to the rotary drive. Each cutting unit and each stirring unit are arranged alternately, the cutting unit includes several cutting knives, and the stirring unit includes several stirring sticks. The above production equipment improves the production efficiency of meatball products.