Patent ID: 6736053
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: A23L

Abstract:
An apparatus for producing a paste food product resembling in appearance a crab's leg meat tissue, comprising:a sheet cutter assembly constructed of a plurality of parallel rotary cutters which are arranged side by side and disposed under a first feed means for feeding a paste sheet; a convergent roll assembly for forming said paste sheet into a folded sheet, said convergent roll assembly having an H-shaped cross section and being disposed under said first feed means; a conveyor for conveying said folded sheet, said conveyor being disposed under said convergent roll assembly; a second feed means for intermittently or continuously feeding said folded sheet, said second feed means being disposed in front of said conveyor; a slitting machine, which is disposed under said second feed means, for forming a plurality of rows of parallel oblique slits in said folded sheet so as to have said rows of said parallel oblique slits symmetrically arranged about a longitudinal axis of said folded sheet, said parallel oblique slits being spaced apart from each other at predetermined narrow intervals in each of said rows to assume a feathery-branched block shape; and a cutter for cutting said folded sheet provided with said parallel oblique slits into a plurality of blocks each having a predetermined length and each resembling in appearance a crab's leg meat tissue, said cutter being disposed over an end portion of said conveyor.