DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY AND MECHANICALLY PROCESSING PIECES OF MEAT CONVEYED IN A ROW AND METHOD CARRIED OUT BY MEANS OF THE DEVICE

摘要

The invention relates to a device (1) for automatically and mechanically processing pieces of meat (6) conveyed in a row, comprising a transporting apparatus (2), a cutting apparatus (3) having a cutting head (31), and a control apparatus (5). The cutting apparatus (3) has a retaining and guiding apparatus (4), on which the cutting head (31) is movably arranged in order to carry out separating cuts at an angle from the straight conveying direction (20) along a straight movement path (40) at a fixed guiding tilt angle (a). A conveyor belt (21), which forms a component of the transporting apparatus (2) and which transports the pieces of meat (6) while said pieces of meat lie on the conveyor belt, continuously passes by the retaining/guiding apparatus (4). The cutting element (32) is formed by a rotationally driven circular blade (321) that is limited in order to cut at the height position thereof over the conveyor belt (21). While the separating cuts are being made, the control apparatus (5) correlates a velocity component (VT) of the movement velocity of the cutting head (31) in the conveying direction (20) with the conveying velocity of the pieces of meat (6) in the conveying direction (20). The device (1) is used in particular to skin fish fillets (60), wherein a tail end piece (610) is removed from the fish fillet (60) by means of a chamfer cut, which produces a filet end chamfered at a slant as an insertion aid for drawing skin (64) to be removed into the draw-in gap of a skinning machine.