Patent ID: 9675089
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A22C,B26D

Claim:
1. A method of creating randomly sized slices of meat from a plurality of meat products, the method including: rotating a plurality of meat products using an impeller having a plurality of inwardly extending paddles, the plurality of meat products exceeding the plurality of paddles; directing one of the meat products toward a slicing blade during rotation of the impeller by lodging the one of the meat products against one of the paddles and against the impeller using centrifugal force from the rotation of the impeller; urging the one of the meat products against the slicing blade using the one of the paddles to cut a slice of meat from the one of the meat products; and dislodging the one of the meat products from against the one of the paddles using others of the plurality of meat products, so that the one of the meat products has a different orientation with a subsequent urging against the slicing blade for creating randomly sized slices of non-uniform meat product.