Patent ID: 6595846
Filing Date: 2003-07-22
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
Machine for processing meat pieces, the machine comprisinga drum having a side wall, a closed rear end and an open front end for feeding and unloading the meat pieces, said open front end being provided with a cover, said drum resting at a front end portion on rollers mounted on a supporting structure and leaning against a circumferential band of said wall, and being coupled at a rear portion of the drum to a driving and guiding means linked to said structure for rotating the drum in opposite directions about a revolution axis, the structure being joint hinged with respect to a bench and associated with fluid dynamic cylinders for tilting the structure so that said rotating motion of the drum is carried out in different positions of inclination of said revolution axis, the drum being provided on an internal face with a plurality of blades for dragging and tumbling the meat, said bench being formed by a substantially horizontal low frame supported on the floor, said supporting structure being hinged at a front portion to the bench by hinged joints aligned according to a first horizontal axis close to the floor and perpendicular to a vertical plane containing said revolution axis, said rollers being placed substantially vertically above the hinged joints when the revolution axis is in a horizontal position, the structure being joined at a rear portion to a plate bearing said driving and guiding means for the rotatory motion of the drum, a junction between the structure and the plate being achieved by intercalating elastic elements aligned according to a second horizontal axis parallel to said first horizontal axis and in proximity to said revolution axis behind the closed end of the drum, at each side of said drum one of said fluid dynamic cylinders is linked by a hinged joint to the rear portion of said bench and by a hinged joint to the rear portion of the structure, the hinged joints being aligned according to a third horizontal axis located close to the floor and orthogonal to said revolution axis and said hinged joints being placed at points close to said horizontal, a distance between the first horizontal axis and the second horizontal axis being significantly larger than a distance between the first horizontal axis and the third horizontal axis so that the fluid cylinders adopt an upwards and rearwards inclined position.