MEAT SKIN PEELING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENDING MEAT WITH SKIN THEREINTO

摘要

The skinning machine of the present invention comprises a skinning blade having a knife edge presented in a first direction. A gripping roll is rotatably mounted adjacent the knife edge for grasping the skin layer of the meat and pulling the meat into the blade for separating the skin from the meat. A feed device is provided above the gripping roll and the skinning blade for feeding the meat to be skinned towards the gripping roll. The feed means includes a chute having an upper end spaced above the gripping roll and a lower end in close proximity to the gripping roll. The meat is fed into the chute from behind the skinning blade. As the meat passes downwardly through the chute, its directional movement is reversed so that it is moving toward the operator when it exits from the chute and is grasped by the gripping roll. Safety is enhanced by virtue of the fact that the cutting blade faces away from the operator, and further by the fact that the meat is fed into the chute at a point spaced above the gripping roll and the skinning knife.