US 11,998,019 B2
Cutting system for cutting carcass parts while the carcass parts are carried by carriers connected to and moved by an overhang transport system
Jan Meerdink, Boxmeer (NL); Franciscus Theodorus Henricus Johannes Van Der Steen, Boxmeer (NL); Cornelis Joannes Janssen, Boxmeer (NL); Bastiaan Martinus Cornelis Albers, Boxmeer (NL); Heinz Madsen, Lichtenvoorde (NL); Leonardus Jozephus Antonius Tiggeloven, Lichtenvoorde (NL); and Niels Antonio William Koster, Lichtenvoorde (NL)
Assigned to MAREL MEAT B.V., Boxmeer (NL)
Appl. No. 17/928,909
Filed by MAREL MEAT B.V., Boxmeer (NL)
PCT Filed Jun. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/065334
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 30, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/250023, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20178888 (EP), filed on Jun. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0225338 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A22B 5/00 (2006.01); A22C 15/00 (2006.01); A22C 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC A22B 5/0029 (2013.01) [A22B 5/0041 (2013.01); A22C 15/001 (2013.01); A22C 15/003 (2013.01); A22C 17/02 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cutting system for cutting carcass parts while the carcass parts are carried by carriers connected to and moved by an overhang transport system, the system comprising:
a detection device for determining at least one cutting position of an incoming carcass part,
at least one cutting device having an upwardly and downwardly facing surface structures and an upstream cutting edge and a downstream edge,
a moving mechanism mechanically connected to the at least one cutting device for controlling the position of the at least one cutting device on the basis of the determined cutting position, and
a carcass displacement device arranged to initiate displacement of the carcass part away from the at least one cutting position while the carcass part or a resulting sub-part carried by a carrier is located between the upstream cutting edge and the downstream edge.