Patent ID: 8776653

Claim:
An assembly for cutting meat passing along a path of travel, said assembly comprising: a blade assembly including a cutting roller rotatable relative to the path of travel, a primary drive assembly connected in rotationally driving relation to said cutting roller, a secondary drive assembly connected in reciprocally driving relation to said cutting roller, said primary drive assembly comprising a drive shaft disposed in driving relation to said cutting roller; an attachment assembly disposed in interconnecting relation between said drive shaft and said cutting roller, said attachment assembly cooperatively structured to move with and relative to said drive shaft, said secondary drive assembly including a movable portion connected to and rotatable with said cutting roller and a fixed portion fixedly disposed relative to said cutting roller, said movable portion and said fixed portion moveably interconnected to one another and comprising a driving interconnection of said cutting roller by said fixed portion, and said primary and secondary drive assemblies cooperatively structured to reciprocally drive said cutting roller in transverse relation to the path of travel concurrent to rotation of said cutting roller.