Improved Meat Chopping Machine.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
COMPLETE MOITIVATION
Improved Meat Chopping Machine.
I, MAX BERNSTEIN, Solicitor of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German
Empire, Blumenstrasse 74, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention consits of a meat chopping machine according to which
meat be cut up is forced through a slot in the casing of the apparatus and then
finely cut off as it emerges, by a vertically reciprocating cutter.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views.
Fig. 1 is a vertical longitudinal section through the apparatus and
Fig. 2 a rear elevation of the same.
To the top of the casing a is attached a hopper 6 having a boot shaped lower
part, provided around three sides with a slot f. Below the slot is mounted in the
casing a guide frame a¹ on which a cutter h having three cutting edges and
extending around the lower part of the boot shaped part of the hopper is mounted,
said cutter corresponding to the length of the slot f. and being adapted to
reciprocate vertically past the said slot f. At the front part of the boot shaped
part of the casing are mounted transport blades g, said blades being formed to push
the meat placed in the hopper towards the tapered end of the casing top and out
through the slot f. These blades are mounted on a shaft c suitably mounted in the
casing and provided with a handle A. Said shaft also carries a gear k which
meshes with a gear kon a lower spindle d passing through the guide frame a¹.
The cutter is vertically guided on this frame and the cutter frame h is provided at
each end with orifices in which the eccentrics i. i of the spindle d lie, so that when
the spindle is rotated the eccentrices act to reciprocate the cutter vertically as will
be readily understood.
The operation of the device takes place in the following manner :-
When the meat is placed in the hopper it falls down into the boot shaped lower
part of the same, the blades then push it towards the slot fand the reciprocating
cutter cuts off the parts projecting through the slot.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of invention
and in what manner the same is performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a meat chopping machine, the combination of a hopper having a boot
shaped lower part provided with a horizontal slot at the tapered end as specified,
a reciprocating cutter to reciprocate round and past said slot, and means for
actuating the meat in the hopper towards the slot substantially as described.
2. The combination of a hopper having a tapered downwardly extending part,
a horizontal slot at the tapered end of said part, a cutter to reciprocate vertically
past said slot, and transporter blades within said part to force the meat towards
the slot substantially as described.
3. The combination of a hopper having lower boot shaped projection provided
with a horizontal slot as specified, a cutter to reciprocate past said slot, transporter
blades within said boot like part of the casing, a spindle to carry said blades,
means for actuating the cutter and means for gearing the blade rotating spindle
to the cutter actuating mechanism substantially as described.

page_text: 4. The combination of a casing having mounted therein a hopper with lower
hoot shaped part, having a slot as specified, a spindle mounted in said casing and
carrying transporter blades within the boot like part of the casing and enclosing
the slot when reciprocated a guide frame for said cutter a cutter frame having
end orifices, a spindle passing through said orifices and having eccentrics to
engage same means for rotating the transporter blade spindle, and gearing to
connect said spindle to the cutter actuating spindle substantially as described.
Dated this 12th day of October 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.