Patent ID: 8753179

Claim:
An apparatus for the automated mechanical processing of pieces of meat conveyed in a row, comprising a transporting device that conveys the pieces of meat in succession and in the conveying direction, a cutting device that has a cutting head bearing a cutting element and executes separating cuts that cut sections of meat from the pieces of meat, and a control device that controls the cutting device for executing the separating cuts, characterized in that the cutting device comprises a holding and guiding device on which the cutting head is movably arranged to execute the separating cuts at an angle to the straight conveying direction along a straight movement path at a fixed guiding tilt angle (α), that a transport belt forming a component of the transporting device and transporting the meat pieces in a lying manner continuously passes by the holding and guiding device, that the cutting element is formed by a rotationally driven circular blade which, for cutting, is limited at its height position over the transport belt, and that the control device correlates a velocity component (V T ) of the movement velocity of the cutting head, which velocity component of the movement is directed in the conveying direction with the conveying velocity of the meat pieces in the conveying direction when executing the separating cuts.