Patent ID: 8834238
Filing Date: 2014-09-16
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
1. A fish processing system, comprising: a structural frame; a conveyor device coupled to the structural frame to convey fish received on the conveyor device across a cutting location; a conveyor drive motor coupled to the structural frame and having a drive shaft coupled to the conveyor device to cause the conveyor device to move via continuous rotation of the drive shaft; a blade movably coupled to the structural frame to move across a transport path of the fish conveyed by the conveyor device; and an intermittent drive mechanism coupled to the drive shaft of the conveyor drive motor and drivingly coupled to the blade to convert continuous rotation of the drive shaft to intermittent movement of the blade between a standby position and a cutting position to sequentially sever a portion from each of a series of the fish conveyed across the cutting location during a fish processing operation.