Patent ID: 11968987
Assignee: NORDISCHER MASCHINENBAU RUD. BAADER GMBH + CO. KG
Field: Other special machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A cutting apparatus, configured and adapted for the final separation of fish fillets from fish which are transported, tail-first, in a transport direction along a transport path and which have already undergone a belly cut and a flank cut, comprising:
a frame structure;
a transport apparatus which is rotatively driven by means of a drive element, the transport apparatus having at least one receiving element for a fish to be processed; and
a cutting blade assembly having two knife heads each with a driven circular blade, the two knife heads being located on opposite sides of the transport path in such a manner that the fish which are to be processed are transported along the transport path between the spaced apart circular blades;
the knife heads being mounted in a movable manner on the frame structure for the purpose of altering a distance between the circular blades;
at least one sensing element fixed to one of the movable knife heads, each of the at least one sensing element being arranged on the one of the knife heads downstream of the cutting edges of the circular blades, as viewed in the transport direction, the cutting edges being directed counter to the transport direction, the at least one sensing element protruding beyond the respective cutting edge, as viewed in a direction transverse to the transport direction, towards a central axis of the transport apparatus and thus of the fish to be processed.