Patent ID: 7918719

Claim:
A feeder for a canning machine for canning tuna and similar food products, comprising a feeding device with two overlapping conveyor belts, said feeding device being suitable to feed tuna loins towards a conveyor belt of said canning machine and to shape said tuna loins into tuna loins having a set thickness, an outlet mouth located at an end of said feeding device and through which said tuna loins having a set thickness are fed, cutting means located adjacent to said outlet mouth and suitable to separate a portion of loin projecting through the outlet mouth so as to obtain a tuna pat having set thickness and width, a longitudinally mobile wall located opposite the outlet mouth and having a width at least equal thereto, a distance from the outlet mouth to said mobile wall corresponding to a maximum width of the tuna pat to be formed, the mobile wall being also able to be placed in contact with said cutting means, and moving means suitable to move the tuna pat perpendicularly in a direction of motion of the conveyor belt of the canning machine.