Title:
【発明の名称】肉製品に流体を注射するための方法及び手段
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001522245
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
A machine for injecting fluid into a meat product has a frame and a meat injection station on the frame. An elongated conveyor is mounted on the frame for carrying a meat products towards and through the injection station. A motor is on the frame for operating the conveyor. A meat injection head on the frame is located at the injection station and includes a plurality of downwardly extending fluid injection needles. A fluid reservoir is mounted on the frame and is connected to a pump, with the pump also being connected to the needles. The motor is connected to a power train for moving the needles into and out of a meat product while it is being moved through the injection station by the conveyor. A bypass control circuit is on the frame and is connected to the pump and the reservoir for diverting fluid moving towards the needles from the pump in the reservoir when the needles are out of the meat product. A method of injecting fluid into a meat product comprising continuously longitudinally moving a meat product having an upward surface through a meat injection station, and injecting fluid at spaced points over the upper surface into the meat product while the meat product is moving through the meat injection station.
Inventors:
Townsend, Ray, Tee.
Application Number:
JP54626098A
Publication Date:
November 13, 2001
Filing Date:
April 22, 1998
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Townsend Engineering Company
International Classes:
A23B4/00; A22C17/00; A23B4/28; (IPC1-7): A23B4/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Nobuyuki Iida