Patent ID: 8859027

Claim:
A method for conveyance of a plurality of meat products and the selective application of an additive onto one or more selected meat products, the method comprising: a. conveying a plurality of meat products with a first conveyor device having a first conveyor track and a plurality of meat product holders movable along said first conveyor track, each meat product being held by a meat product holder of the first conveyor device; b. selecting from said plurality of meat products conveyed by the first conveyor device at least one meat product that is to be subjected to an additive-adding treatment; c. transferring at a transfer point along the first conveyor track the at least one selected meat product from the first conveyor device to a second conveyor device while other of the plurality of meat products are conveyed by the first conveyor device past the transfer point, said second conveyor device having a second conveyor track and a plurality of meat product holders movable along said second conveyor track, wherein the at least one selected meat product is transferred from a meat product holder of the first conveyor device to a meat product holder of the second conveyor device; d. subjecting the at least one selected meat product to at least one additive-adding treatment by at least one additive-adding device positioned along the second conveyor track, said at least one additive-adding device treating the at least one selected meat product with an additive while the at least one selected meat product is held by the meat product holder of the second conveyor device; and e. conveying the at least one selected meat product back to the transfer point and transferring said at least one selected meat product back to a meat product holder of said first conveyor device.