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Method and apparatus for cutting controlled-volume meat portions from a segment of fresh whole-muscle meat

  • US 4,356,205 A
  • Filed: 10/24/1980
  • Issued: 10/26/1982
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. The method of cutting successive controlled-volume meat portions from the face of a segment of fresh whole-muscle meat, comprising the following steps:

  • A. advancing a fresh whole-muscle meat segment along a given meat advancement path transverse to the face of the meat segment, into firm engagement with a stop plate, without appreciable constraint on the cross-sectional configuration of the meat segment;

    B. constraining only the face part of the meat segment, immediately adjacent the stop plate in a direction parallel to the face of the meat segment, in a shaping clamp of given thickness and of a given cross-sectional shape generally corresponding to the natural cross-sectional shape of the meat segment, thereby constraining a predetermined volume of the meat in the shaping clamp, without constraint of the remainder of the meat segment;

    C. cutting off the face part of the meat segment, immediately behind the shaping clamp, while still under constraint, to form a controlled-volume meat portion in the shaping clamp;

    D. removing the controlled-volume meat portion from the shaping clamp; and

    repeating steps A through D to form additional controlled-volume meat portions, cut from the same meat segment.

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