Patent ID: 6248012
Filing Date: 2001-06-19
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
A method for mechanical releasing of the ribs and the meat positioned therebetween from the adjacent meat in a part carcass of a splitted carcass with spine, characterized in that the part of the spine (9) carrying the ribs is brought into engagement with a holder (3, 4, 5, 17), that the thus secured part carcass and a knife (21) with a substantially rectilinear cutting edge (27) ending in a point (22) is moved towards each other so that the point (22) of the knife (21) is inserted from behind at the exterior side of the rib head (13) of the rearmost rib (10a) and the cutting edge (27) is brought to abut on a rib surface, and that the secured part carcass (2) and the knife (21) is moved further towards each other in the direction of the spine while the knife (21) is kept, seen along the cutting edge in the direction of the point (22), in a predetermined angular position obliquely inwards and upwards relative to the carcass (2), its central plane and a second plane which is perpendicular to the central plane and in parallel with the spine (9) and the knife is moved along the ribs away from the spine.