MEAT TUMBLING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: meat industry. SUBSTANCE: apparatus has tumbler with radial stainless steel blades arranged in alternation with blades providing for leading rolling of product and made from rolled steel. The latter blades are inclined at an angle of 10-12 deg to direction opposite to direction of rotation of tumbler. Radial stainless steel blades are provided with longitudinal grooves of 0.004 m height. Groove pitch and height ratio is 1.5-2 and groove length and pitch ratio is 0.4-0.6. Method is used for producing salted meat foods. EFFECT: improved quality of salted meat foods by effective use of tumbling process at all the stages of mechanical processing of meat material. 2 cl, 2 dwg, 1 tbl