| 摘要 |
<p>In a meat slicing apparatus for removing slices from the face of a body of meat ready for incorporation into sliced packs of predetermined weight, the surface area of the face of the body of meat is determined by the operation of scanning means, the thickness of a portion required to produce the predetermined weight is computed, the mean slice thickness required to produce a given number of slices of equal thickness from said portion is calculated, and the apparatus is operated to cut said number of slices of calculated mean thickness from the face of the body. The body 2 of meat is moved incrementally to a rotating cutter 3 and the cut slices (or the face of the meat) are scanned at 4 to determine the surface area, the thickness of a portion required to produce the predetermined weight is computed from the surface area and the density, and required number of slices of equal thickness are cut and check-weighed at 32 to produce an error signal. The cutter 3 is a spiral or hypocycloidal knife. The scanner may be incorporated into the knife. <IMAGE></p> |
