Patent ID: 7090881

Claim:
Method for producing and converting ground meat, wherein the following seven stages are employed to continuously obtain ground, cured and dried meat in the form of thin strips comprising: the first stage consists of fine chopping-up of noble meat, in a chopper; the second stage consists, at the output of the chopper, of conveying the ground meat into a meat pump, to form a continuous tube or a continuous flattened strip; the third stage consists of unwinding an upper film and a optional lower film from a corresponding upper device and lower device on which each film has been wound as a reel, wherein the unwound upper film and lower film form a sealing sheath around the continuous tube or strip of ground meat producing a sheathed ground-meat tube or strip; the fourth stage consists of passing said sheathed ground-meat tube or strip into a rolling device for spreading the ground meat into a drawn ground-meat strip, in a thin layer, in a compacting and texturing configuration that does not reveal the meat parts themselves; the fifth stage consists of continuously unwinding the drawn ground-meat strip from the rolling device into a dehydrating-/curing-solution bath; the sixth stage consists, at the output of the solution bath, of removing the sheath-forming film from the drawn around-meat strip to form a thin, dried and rolled, ground-meat strip; and the seventh stage consists of conveying the thin, dried and rolled, ground-meat strip to a cutting and packaging station.