FARCE LINE Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: meat industry. SUBSTANCE: line has two overhead tracks for beef and pork, each provided with suspension ladles having jaw-type gates, monorail weighers with optical converters and automatic system for weighing and moving suspension ladles along overhead tracks, with different sorts of beef and pork being taken into consideration. Overhead tracks are provided with electromagnetic stops. Suspension ladle weighing stations use beef and pork weighing system with microcontrollers and weigher's panel. Input of each microcontroller is connected with related optical converter of monorail-type weigher. Line is further provided with two crushers having chutes for discharging beef and pork onto conveyor mounted in front of farce mixer for successive feeding of beef and then pork into farce mixer. Farce mixer is mounted on four strain supports. Vacuum grinder may be adjusted to regulate farce grinding extent. Crusher, conveyor, water dosing pump, farce mixer and grinder are provided with farce composition control panel having individual microprocessor for controlled operation of mentioned equipment in accordance with process cyclogram. EFFECT: increased efficiency and improved quality of product. 10 dwg, 2 tbl