Patent ID: 8307762

Claim:
An assembly for cutting meat passing along a path of travel, said assembly comprising: a blade assembly comprising a rotatable cutting roller extending transversely across the path of travel; a plurality of elongated cutting blades mounted on and rotatable with said cutting roller, each of said cutting blades having an outer elongated cutting edge, each of said plurality of blades and corresponding ones of said cutting edges extending along at least a majority of the length of said cutting roller in spaced relation to one another, an in-feed assembly comprising at least one rotatable in-feed roller disposed in receiving relation to correspondingly positioned meat; said in-feed roller and said plurality of cutting blades concurrently engaging the meat and being relatively positioned to establish a concurrent driving engagement with the meat, a mating assembly comprising a rotatable elongated mate roller extending transversely across the path of travel in engaging relation to the meat, a plurality of elongated mate slots each formed in an outer surface of said mate roller and extending along at least a majority of the length of said mate roller, said plurality of mate slots and said plurality of cutting blades concurrently rotatable in interactive relation to one another, said interactive relation comprising each of said cutting edges disposed within a correspondingly positioned one of said mate slots and through correspondingly disposed meat passing between said mate roller and said cutting roller, and each of said mate slots cooperatively configured and dimensioned with each of said cutting edges to define a multi-point cutting procedure of the meat by correspondingly disposed cutting edges and mate slots, when disposed in said interactive relation with one another.