Apparatus and method for automatically obtaining flesh from beheaded and gutted fish

摘要

The invention relates to an apparatus (10) for automatically obtaining flesh from beheaded and gutted fish (11), comprising a transport device (12) for transporting the fish (11) tail-first in the transport direction T along a transport path, and a separating device (14) the separating the flesh from the spine, wherein the separating device (14) has at least two circular knives (15, 16) that can be driven in rotation and controlled, which are arranged at a distance from each other on mutually opposite sides of the transport path in order to form a gap S; the method is distinguished in that the two circular knives (15, 16) are designed such that the circular knives can be swiveled about an axis I, II that differs from a horizontal orientation, wherein the axes I, II or oriented in such a way that, by swiveling the circular knives (15, 16) about the axis I and II, the point P of the smallest gap dimension between the circular knives (15, 16) can be positioned differently from the lowest knife point M of the two circular knives (15, 16). The invention further relates to a corresponding method.