FIELD: food industry.
SUBSTANCE: device (10) includes the transport means (11) which transport the fish along the transport path, and the cutting device (12) for separating meat from the flank bones (13, 13a) of the fish skeleton (14) after cutting off the ventral and dorsal radial bones (15, 16). The cutting device (12) comprises a pair of circular knives (19, 20) which can be actuated with a rotation providing around the point of rotation D and which are arranged on opposite sides of the transport path and made with the possibility of adjustment with respect to the position of the fish and, consequently, the skeleton (14). Each circular knife (19, 20) is connected with the means (21, 22), which is designed and made for retaining at least some of the flank bones (13a) below during the process of separating meat from the skeleton (14). The process provides separating the meat from the flank bones (13, 13a) of the skeleton (14) of a fish with a cutting device (12) by introducing one rotatable circular knife (19, 20) of the cutting device (12) into a fish on each side between the flank bones (13, 13a) and the meat to be discharged, in each case above the flank bones (13, 13a) to the spine (18) of the skeleton (14). In the process of separating the meat from the skeleton (14) at least some of the flank bones (13a) are pressed down with the means (21, 22) for retaining the flank bones (13a) below, that provides separating fillets from the bones.
EFFECT: improved process of separating the fillet from the bones.
14 cl, 9 dwg
