TENDERER Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A22C9/00 

FIELD: food-processing industry.

SUBSTANCE: tenderer has charging hopper, guides, cutter units with disk-type toothed knives, regulating linkage mechanism, drive engine, bearing supports with stepped shafts, and chain transmission. Guides are made in the form of curved plates facing each other with their discharge sides and equipped with windows for disk-type knives secured by means of nuts on hexagonal shaft. In each of cutter units connected through chain transmission to drive engine, adjustable cutter unit is connected with lever of adjusting mechanism spring-loaded by means of set of plate-like springs arranged along stem equipped with thread on which nut of regulating linkage mechanism is disposed. Nuts of cutter units are inserted into apertures of stepped shafts.

EFFECT: simplified construction, enhanced reliability in operation, wider operational capabilities and improved quality of processed product.

6 cl, 9 dwg