摘要 |
Food products, such as fish fillets, chicken fillets and many others, are cut to predetermined portion sizes of equal weight and volume, or to predetermined profile shapes, by moving the food products on a conveyor, (12, 22, 34, 46, 60) scanning them as they move through a shadow line (86) with a camera (72) capable of providing a programmed computer(96) with dimensional data, and utilizing the computer to control the operation of a plurality of high pressure water jet cutters (98, 130, 152, 152', 160, 160' 188, 188' 190, 190' 192, 192') to cut the food products to reduced sizes as dictated by the computer program. |