Toothed rollers for cleaning feed roll teeth on food skinning machine - to squeeze residual scraps from the feed roll without excessive wear

摘要

A mechanism for cleaning the teeth of a roller used to feed carcasses past a skinning knife comprises a combination of a conventional comb for clearing the grooves between the annular sets of teeth and an ancillary roller with longitudinally continuous teeth meshed with the sets of teeth on the feed roller. The teeth of the ancillary roller squeeze any residual scraps of material from the roots of the feed roller into the adjacent cleaned channels from which the scraps may be removed next time past the comb. Used to maintain teeth for gripping fish, meat etc. in a clean state. Claims include ancillary rolls made of either stainless steel of polyamide material. Simpler than use of narrow reciprocating purge gears. Polyamide teeth can scrape the feed teeth without causing excessive wear.