Open top meat skinning device

• US 7,241,213 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2005
• Issued: 07/10/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Marel, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Stork Townsend Incorporated
• Inventors: Kanis, Bryan D, Myers, James L, Bergman, Matthew A, Sawhill, Matthew P, Lebsack, Kenneth L
• Primary Examiner(s): PRICE JR, RICHARD THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US11/094,047
• Publication Number:
  US 20060240755A1
• Time in Patent Office: 832 Days
• Field of Search: 452/125, 452127-130, 452/133, 452 82- 85, 452/94, 452/98, 452/99
• US Class Current: 452/125
• CPC Class Codes: A22B 5/166 Drum skinners

Abstract

A roller assembly for a meat skinning device having a frame, a drive shaft rotatably mounted to the frame and having a female groove, and an elongated roller having a male prong frictionally received within the female groove, a bearing housing secured to the drive shaft, and a seal mounted on the roller and separated from a food zone of the roller.

Claims

1. A roller assembly for a meat skinning device having a frame comprising:

a tooth roll having an elongated roller with a gripping portion having a plurality of teeth and having a male prong extending outwardly that is received within a female groove of a drive shaft.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the male prong is retained within the female groove by a bolt disposed through a centrally located bore that extends through and out of the drive shaft and is received by a bore disposed within the male prong of the tooth roll.

3. The device of claim 2 wherein a retention device on the bolt is positioned between a base of the female groove of the drive shaft and the male prong which allows reversal of the bolt to separate the male prong from the female groove.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the roller is a stripper roll.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein the roller is operatively connected to a gear box having a reduction gear assembly.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein a seal is mounted on the roller and separated from a food zone of the roller.