摘要 |
A meat pickling machine of the type wherein the meat body is advanced either continuously or intermittently past a pickling stage where a pickling needle is driven up and down to pierce the body being pickled, such needle being provided with a longitudinally extending pickling liquid supply passage terminating in a tapered and pointed lower end, such passage being connected to a source of pickling fluid which is delivered out from such longitudinal needle passage through one or more lateral openings of the needle during the interval of pierce of the meat body by such needle, provision being made for return of the needle to its non-piercing position after each piercing and liquid delivering operation preparatory to the succeeding operation, the present improvements concerning structural and operational features of the piercing needle and the cylinder wherein it operates and the manner wherein such operations are produced.
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