Patent ID: 7077057

Claim:
Plant for nonstop treating and packing meat material which comprises: an injecting station ( 10 ) for injecting brine to the meat material; a macerating station ( 20 ) including a rotatory drum ( 22 ) for massaging injected meat material and having a plurality of resting tanks ( 24 ) for injected, massaged meat material associated with carrying means for travelling said resting tanks ( 24 ) step-by-step along a closed path ( 26 ) around said rotatory drum ( 22 ), said resting tanks ( 24 ) being adapted for receiving injected, massaged meat material from said rotatory drum ( 22 ) and keeping it resting up to the moment of emptying it so as to become treated meat material; and a packing station ( 30 ) for packing the treated meat material; said stations being coupled to each other for nonstop operation, linked by: an accumulating and loading unit ( 40 ) for accumulating and loading the rotatory drum ( 22 ), located between an outlet of said injecting station ( 10 ) and an inlet of said macerating station ( 20 ); and a transferring and feeding unit ( 60 ) for transferring and feeding treated meat material at said packing station ( 30 ), located between a given point of said path ( 26 ) of said macerating station ( 20 ) and said packing station ( 30 ), wherein steps of operation of the stations ( 10 , 20 , 30 ) and the units ( 40 , 60 ) are coordinated from at least one computer control center so that at any moment of an operation cycle of the plant, at least one of the stations is engaged in operating, idling for cleaning each station, unit or part thereof being provided during said cycle, keeping the plant in nonstop operation.