CA1090066A - Apparatus for the skinning of fish fillets - Google Patents
Apparatus for the skinning of fish filletsInfo
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ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE:
An apparatus for skinning fish fillets, comprising a rotatable skinning roller, conveyor means for advancing the fillet to the skinning roller, and a skinning knife provided with a cutting edge at a fixed distance from and a presser face equi-spaced from the periphery of the skinning roller, wherein the periphery of the skinning roller is provided with recess means distributed over the circumference of said skinning roller and extending from one end face of the latter to the opposite end face and with lands enclosed between the recess means for transporting the fillet and supporting it at the skin side thereof, each of the lands, when measured in the direction of the circumference of the skinning roller, having a width which is a multiple of the width of each of the recess means.
An apparatus for skinning fish fillets, comprising a rotatable skinning roller, conveyor means for advancing the fillet to the skinning roller, and a skinning knife provided with a cutting edge at a fixed distance from and a presser face equi-spaced from the periphery of the skinning roller, wherein the periphery of the skinning roller is provided with recess means distributed over the circumference of said skinning roller and extending from one end face of the latter to the opposite end face and with lands enclosed between the recess means for transporting the fillet and supporting it at the skin side thereof, each of the lands, when measured in the direction of the circumference of the skinning roller, having a width which is a multiple of the width of each of the recess means.
Description
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1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to an apparatus for skinning fish fillets, comprising a rotatable skinning roller, conveyor means for advancing the fillet to the skinning roller and a skinning knife provided with a cutting edge at a fixed distance from and a presser face equi-spaced ' rom the periphery of the skinning roller. :
.. : 2. Description of Prior Art Known apparatus for skinning a fish fillet comprises skinning rollers which are provided on their periphery with ~ . .
a uniform arrangement of teeth in which the faces of the teeth lying in the circumference of the roller are very ~ narrow and the gaps between the teeth relatively large and .
.. 15 deep. To improve the running-in or entry of the skin of the .l leadlng fish fillet end under the cutting edge of the skinning ~. knife, according to DE-OS 25 23 752 the skinning knife is .i provided, at its cutting edge, with a surface directed away from and against the rotational direction of the periphery of the skinning roller.
:- Such apparatus has a number of advantages: ~hey have :-.
.` a simple construction, the drive for an oscillatlng skinning . knife can be dispensed with and they make the removal of the skin possible without loss of a tip of flesh at the ,;
leading end of the fish fillet. However, they also have disadvantages: The yield of fish flesh attainable with such ` apparatus ls not satisfactory because the largest part of the gain in f:Lsh flesh attained by the non-loss of the flesh .,.
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~ tip at the preceding end of the fi~h fillet gets lost due to the fact that a thicker layer of fish protein remains on ; the entire skin ~urface than is the case with skinning . apparatus wi~h a switchable skinning knife. This not onl~
- 5 reduces the yield in fish meat, but also impairs khe .. ~ appearance and the consistency of the skinned flsh fillets, .~ b~cause maintenance of the silver layer with the protective layer lying thereunder on the skin side of the fish fillet i~ only attainable with dlfficulty or ~s even not obtainable .:
at allO A further important defect of ~uch apparatus is that fillet~ of fish with thick andJor scaly skin cannot be ~ skinned at all or at least not reliably, while the running-in -~ of ~he skin below the cutting edge of the ~kinning knife i8 not properly attalned even wlth a skinning knife (according to DE-OS 25 23 752) provlded with a ~urface dlrected against the circulating dlrection of the skinning roller.
. 3. Object of Invention It is one of the main objects of the present invention ~: to avoid the disadvantages o~ said known ~kinning apparatus : .
:~ 20 and to arrange the apparatus such that it enable~ the skinning at high yleld of flsh flesh by leading the flllet to be skinned -;
: ~o closely to the skinning kni~e that it is upset in front of . the same and that even thick or scaly skin wi.ll run-in safely underneath the cutting edge of the skinnin~ kni~e.
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According to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for skinning fi~h fillets, comprlsing a rotatable . .
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The main advantages th~s achieved are that the skin is uniformly supported over the lands and that the yield in fish flesh is increased due to a uniform silver mirror being attainable on the fish fillet. Also the running-in of the skin of the pre-ceding fish fillet end takes p~ace securely and without delay with every kind of fish because it does not execute a vertically ;~ dancing motion which is caused by the teeth of the skinning roller of known apparatus, but lies flush on the lands of the skinning roller rotating under it so that thus the skin of the preceding end of the fish fillet is enabled to penetrate ~ into one of the grooves and come below the cutting edge of .,~
the skinning knife.
The recess means may be grooves.
The conveyor means may comprise an endless belt, and a rotatable transfer roller may be disposed between said belt and said skinning roller, each of these elements known per se.
The grooves may extend axially of the skinning roller.
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The groove means rnay extend helically around-the skinning . . .
roller. This enables, in the case of narrow grooves, the '' \
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The groove means may well comprise helical grooves ; which cross one another. Thereby the number of the engagement 'A~ locatlons of the skin may be incxeased.
The groove means be arranged in arrow shape. Thereby, the flush resting of the skln on the lands of the roller may be improved by the skin being outwardly stretched.
In order to make sure that for every fish fillet end arriving a groove is ready, the groove means may be so arxanged that for any angular posltion of the sklnning roller at least part of the groove means is dlsposed opposite the pres~er face.
Preferably the groove means may have a base which is narrower than the mouth and may have opposite side walls which lS taper toward~ each other from the mouth, the depth of the groove means preferably being less than the least width thereof. Thereby the space for the running-in of the skin lets it~elf be dimensioned adequately without side effects on the silver mirror taking place.
, 20 The lands of the skinning roller may be rough and the roughness may be produced mechanically, chemically or - el~ctrolyticàlly. The roughness provides a co-efflcient of adequate for the entrainment of the skin without endangering the yield of fish flesh.
The lands of the skinning roller may, however, also be provlded with a fine toothing. Thereby, the skin of fish ~illets with large ~kinning resistance can be conveyed securely.
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this may be provided wlth a fine toothing. Thereby further quietening of the leading end of the fish fillet before its running-in into the skinning knife i5 attainable.
A known par se presser rol:Ler may be disposed in proximity of the cutting edge of the sklnning knife. Therehy, automatic '~ checking or alignment of the preceding end of the fish fillet and consequently the secure running-in thereof may be attained.
Advantageously a guide face may be arranged above the skinning roller and at an acute angle with a tangent line drawn from the cutting edge of the skinning knife to the - clrcumference of the skinning roller, said guide face having an edge adjacent the skinning roller which passes slightly across the cutting edge of the skining knife~ l~es on the back of the skinnlng knife and is arranged to yield ln an lS upward direction. This enables the positive feeding and ; running-in of the leading fillet tips of the rather stiff ~ fillets even in case of rigor mortis into one of the ~rooves ., ` between the lands and the safe separation of the fibres between , ; ~kin and fillets at the end of the skinning process.
To increase thie run-in eff0ct of very stiff illets and to lmprove the skinning process even ~urther, the guide faco may be pivotable about an axi~ parallel to the axis of : ,. .
the i~kinning roller and perform an oscillating movement of 8mall amiplitucle in the conveying direction of the fish , 25 ~lllat~.
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1 of the skinning roller. Thereby the safe initial cutting is . ~
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An embodiment of the present invention will now be more parti~ularly described b~ way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawing, the single igure of which shows an axonometric ill~stration o two diEfering versions of an apparatus embodying the present invention, the one version to the right hand side of the feeding and conveying direc~ion showing a g~ide face~ and the other one to the left incorporating a pressure roller.
A deflecting roller 11, a transfer roller 3 and a skinning roller 2 are jornalled in a fr,ame (not shown) and driven counter-clockwise as shown by,the arrows on the periphery of the rollers.
An endless feed belt 1 is looped around the deflecting roller 11 and tensioned by a tensioning roller (not shown). ~he transfer roller 3 and the skinning roller 2 each run at a higher peri-pheral speed than the feed-be1t 1. A skinning knife 4 is arranged fast with the frame above the upper half of the skinning roller 2 and has a presser face 42 e~uidistantly from the peripheral surface 21 of the skinning roller 2. The gap between the cutting edge 41 or the presser face 42 and the peri-pheral surface 21 of the skinning roller 2 is a few tenths of a millimetre. Advantageously the skinning knife 4 is so arranged that it can deviate awa~v from the periphery of the skinning roller 2 against strong spring pressure. Arranged above the cutting edge 41 o the slcinning knife ~ there may be an intcgral or multi-part pre3ser roller 5, which is drivcn in thc direction shown by the arrow on the periphery of the presser roller and which is arranged to be deviatable against a spring force. ~lowever~ instead of this pressure roller 5 there may be provided a g~ide face 7 pivotable about an axis 71 parallel to ~ .
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- The cylindrical peripheral surface 2J o the skinning roller 2 is divided b~ axial grooves 25 into lands 22 which possess roughenings of small radial depth. The rough surface may be provided by for example crossed knurls 23 OL fine - toothing 24 which serve to entrain the skin along the presser face 42 o~ the skinning knife 4, The grooves 25 have the shape of non-unlfo~m trapeziums, the depth 27 of which amounts to ~- only a fraction of their width 26, and the trailing flanks of which may be inclined oppositel~ to the direction of the skinning roller 2. Each o the lands 22, when measured in the direction of the circumference of the skinning roller 2, has a width which is a multiple of the width o each of the recess means. The width o the grooves may be about 5 millimetres and their depth about 1.5 millimetres. The surface oE the transfer roller 3 is provided with a fine toothing and also - the surface of the presser roller 5 is advantageously provided ` with a profiling ~not shown) of small depth.
The apparatus operates as follows:
A fish fillet laid with its skin side on the feed belt 1 ' is fed b~ the feed belt 1 with its tail end forward to the !
deflecting location above the deflecting roller 11, where the transfer roller 3 guides the tail tip onto the peripheral surface 21 of the skinning roller 2. The Eine toothing 31 of the transer roller 3 is thus in a position to raise the fillet end from the feed belt 1 but prevents excitation of the ~- fish Eillet end into a vertical flapping motion. The skinniny roller 2 rotates more rapidly than the fed tail end of the fish fillet and rotates with its lands 22 and grooves 25 below the skin side of the fish fillet until the leading end thereof has reached the cutting edge 41 o the skinning knife , .~, .
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4. The merel~ low roughness oi the lands 22 of the skinning roller 2 causes the skin ta rest 1ush on the peripheral sur-.
face 21. In consequence thereof, the skin o the tail end drops briefly into the grooves 25 respectively passing through below it, When the tail end of the fish fillet again pene-trates with its skin into a groove 2S on reaching the cutting edge 41 of the skinning knife 4 wedging of the skin takes place instantaneously through the presser ace 42 lying below the cutting edge 41 and enables the cutting edge 41 to penetrate ~ 10 between the skin and silver layer of the fish fillet and thereby - to sever the fish ~illet from the skin. This process is per-formed with great certainty when the fish fillet is conveyed forward spread out from the feed belt 1. The presser roller 5 disposed above the cutting edge 41 comes into effect particularly when irregularities are present in the position of the fish , fillet.
The arrangement o a guide face 7 instead of the pressure roller 5 is advantageous when very stiff and rigid fillets are to be skinned. The skinning process may then be further improved by providing for an oscillation of the guide face in the conveying or feeding direction.
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1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to an apparatus for skinning fish fillets, comprising a rotatable skinning roller, conveyor means for advancing the fillet to the skinning roller and a skinning knife provided with a cutting edge at a fixed distance from and a presser face equi-spaced ' rom the periphery of the skinning roller. :
.. : 2. Description of Prior Art Known apparatus for skinning a fish fillet comprises skinning rollers which are provided on their periphery with ~ . .
a uniform arrangement of teeth in which the faces of the teeth lying in the circumference of the roller are very ~ narrow and the gaps between the teeth relatively large and .
.. 15 deep. To improve the running-in or entry of the skin of the .l leadlng fish fillet end under the cutting edge of the skinning ~. knife, according to DE-OS 25 23 752 the skinning knife is .i provided, at its cutting edge, with a surface directed away from and against the rotational direction of the periphery of the skinning roller.
:- Such apparatus has a number of advantages: ~hey have :-.
.` a simple construction, the drive for an oscillatlng skinning . knife can be dispensed with and they make the removal of the skin possible without loss of a tip of flesh at the ,;
leading end of the fish fillet. However, they also have disadvantages: The yield of fish flesh attainable with such ` apparatus ls not satisfactory because the largest part of the gain in f:Lsh flesh attained by the non-loss of the flesh .,.
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~ tip at the preceding end of the fi~h fillet gets lost due to the fact that a thicker layer of fish protein remains on ; the entire skin ~urface than is the case with skinning . apparatus wi~h a switchable skinning knife. This not onl~
- 5 reduces the yield in fish meat, but also impairs khe .. ~ appearance and the consistency of the skinned flsh fillets, .~ b~cause maintenance of the silver layer with the protective layer lying thereunder on the skin side of the fish fillet i~ only attainable with dlfficulty or ~s even not obtainable .:
at allO A further important defect of ~uch apparatus is that fillet~ of fish with thick andJor scaly skin cannot be ~ skinned at all or at least not reliably, while the running-in -~ of ~he skin below the cutting edge of the ~kinning knife i8 not properly attalned even wlth a skinning knife (according to DE-OS 25 23 752) provlded with a ~urface dlrected against the circulating dlrection of the skinning roller.
. 3. Object of Invention It is one of the main objects of the present invention ~: to avoid the disadvantages o~ said known ~kinning apparatus : .
:~ 20 and to arrange the apparatus such that it enable~ the skinning at high yleld of flsh flesh by leading the flllet to be skinned -;
: ~o closely to the skinning kni~e that it is upset in front of . the same and that even thick or scaly skin wi.ll run-in safely underneath the cutting edge of the skinnin~ kni~e.
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According to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for skinning fi~h fillets, comprlsing a rotatable . .
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The main advantages th~s achieved are that the skin is uniformly supported over the lands and that the yield in fish flesh is increased due to a uniform silver mirror being attainable on the fish fillet. Also the running-in of the skin of the pre-ceding fish fillet end takes p~ace securely and without delay with every kind of fish because it does not execute a vertically ;~ dancing motion which is caused by the teeth of the skinning roller of known apparatus, but lies flush on the lands of the skinning roller rotating under it so that thus the skin of the preceding end of the fish fillet is enabled to penetrate ~ into one of the grooves and come below the cutting edge of .,~
the skinning knife.
The recess means may be grooves.
The conveyor means may comprise an endless belt, and a rotatable transfer roller may be disposed between said belt and said skinning roller, each of these elements known per se.
The grooves may extend axially of the skinning roller.
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The groove means rnay extend helically around-the skinning . . .
roller. This enables, in the case of narrow grooves, the '' \
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The groove means may well comprise helical grooves ; which cross one another. Thereby the number of the engagement 'A~ locatlons of the skin may be incxeased.
The groove means be arranged in arrow shape. Thereby, the flush resting of the skln on the lands of the roller may be improved by the skin being outwardly stretched.
In order to make sure that for every fish fillet end arriving a groove is ready, the groove means may be so arxanged that for any angular posltion of the sklnning roller at least part of the groove means is dlsposed opposite the pres~er face.
Preferably the groove means may have a base which is narrower than the mouth and may have opposite side walls which lS taper toward~ each other from the mouth, the depth of the groove means preferably being less than the least width thereof. Thereby the space for the running-in of the skin lets it~elf be dimensioned adequately without side effects on the silver mirror taking place.
, 20 The lands of the skinning roller may be rough and the roughness may be produced mechanically, chemically or - el~ctrolyticàlly. The roughness provides a co-efflcient of adequate for the entrainment of the skin without endangering the yield of fish flesh.
The lands of the skinning roller may, however, also be provlded with a fine toothing. Thereby, the skin of fish ~illets with large ~kinning resistance can be conveyed securely.
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this may be provided wlth a fine toothing. Thereby further quietening of the leading end of the fish fillet before its running-in into the skinning knife i5 attainable.
A known par se presser rol:Ler may be disposed in proximity of the cutting edge of the sklnning knife. Therehy, automatic '~ checking or alignment of the preceding end of the fish fillet and consequently the secure running-in thereof may be attained.
Advantageously a guide face may be arranged above the skinning roller and at an acute angle with a tangent line drawn from the cutting edge of the skinning knife to the - clrcumference of the skinning roller, said guide face having an edge adjacent the skinning roller which passes slightly across the cutting edge of the skining knife~ l~es on the back of the skinnlng knife and is arranged to yield ln an lS upward direction. This enables the positive feeding and ; running-in of the leading fillet tips of the rather stiff ~ fillets even in case of rigor mortis into one of the ~rooves ., ` between the lands and the safe separation of the fibres between , ; ~kin and fillets at the end of the skinning process.
To increase thie run-in eff0ct of very stiff illets and to lmprove the skinning process even ~urther, the guide faco may be pivotable about an axi~ parallel to the axis of : ,. .
the i~kinning roller and perform an oscillating movement of 8mall amiplitucle in the conveying direction of the fish , 25 ~lllat~.
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An embodiment of the present invention will now be more parti~ularly described b~ way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawing, the single igure of which shows an axonometric ill~stration o two diEfering versions of an apparatus embodying the present invention, the one version to the right hand side of the feeding and conveying direc~ion showing a g~ide face~ and the other one to the left incorporating a pressure roller.
A deflecting roller 11, a transfer roller 3 and a skinning roller 2 are jornalled in a fr,ame (not shown) and driven counter-clockwise as shown by,the arrows on the periphery of the rollers.
An endless feed belt 1 is looped around the deflecting roller 11 and tensioned by a tensioning roller (not shown). ~he transfer roller 3 and the skinning roller 2 each run at a higher peri-pheral speed than the feed-be1t 1. A skinning knife 4 is arranged fast with the frame above the upper half of the skinning roller 2 and has a presser face 42 e~uidistantly from the peripheral surface 21 of the skinning roller 2. The gap between the cutting edge 41 or the presser face 42 and the peri-pheral surface 21 of the skinning roller 2 is a few tenths of a millimetre. Advantageously the skinning knife 4 is so arranged that it can deviate awa~v from the periphery of the skinning roller 2 against strong spring pressure. Arranged above the cutting edge 41 o the slcinning knife ~ there may be an intcgral or multi-part pre3ser roller 5, which is drivcn in thc direction shown by the arrow on the periphery of the presser roller and which is arranged to be deviatable against a spring force. ~lowever~ instead of this pressure roller 5 there may be provided a g~ide face 7 pivotable about an axis 71 parallel to ~ .
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- The cylindrical peripheral surface 2J o the skinning roller 2 is divided b~ axial grooves 25 into lands 22 which possess roughenings of small radial depth. The rough surface may be provided by for example crossed knurls 23 OL fine - toothing 24 which serve to entrain the skin along the presser face 42 o~ the skinning knife 4, The grooves 25 have the shape of non-unlfo~m trapeziums, the depth 27 of which amounts to ~- only a fraction of their width 26, and the trailing flanks of which may be inclined oppositel~ to the direction of the skinning roller 2. Each o the lands 22, when measured in the direction of the circumference of the skinning roller 2, has a width which is a multiple of the width o each of the recess means. The width o the grooves may be about 5 millimetres and their depth about 1.5 millimetres. The surface oE the transfer roller 3 is provided with a fine toothing and also - the surface of the presser roller 5 is advantageously provided ` with a profiling ~not shown) of small depth.
The apparatus operates as follows:
A fish fillet laid with its skin side on the feed belt 1 ' is fed b~ the feed belt 1 with its tail end forward to the !
deflecting location above the deflecting roller 11, where the transfer roller 3 guides the tail tip onto the peripheral surface 21 of the skinning roller 2. The Eine toothing 31 of the transer roller 3 is thus in a position to raise the fillet end from the feed belt 1 but prevents excitation of the ~- fish Eillet end into a vertical flapping motion. The skinniny roller 2 rotates more rapidly than the fed tail end of the fish fillet and rotates with its lands 22 and grooves 25 below the skin side of the fish fillet until the leading end thereof has reached the cutting edge 41 o the skinning knife , .~, .
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4. The merel~ low roughness oi the lands 22 of the skinning roller 2 causes the skin ta rest 1ush on the peripheral sur-.
face 21. In consequence thereof, the skin o the tail end drops briefly into the grooves 25 respectively passing through below it, When the tail end of the fish fillet again pene-trates with its skin into a groove 2S on reaching the cutting edge 41 of the skinning knife 4 wedging of the skin takes place instantaneously through the presser ace 42 lying below the cutting edge 41 and enables the cutting edge 41 to penetrate ~ 10 between the skin and silver layer of the fish fillet and thereby - to sever the fish ~illet from the skin. This process is per-formed with great certainty when the fish fillet is conveyed forward spread out from the feed belt 1. The presser roller 5 disposed above the cutting edge 41 comes into effect particularly when irregularities are present in the position of the fish , fillet.
The arrangement o a guide face 7 instead of the pressure roller 5 is advantageous when very stiff and rigid fillets are to be skinned. The skinning process may then be further improved by providing for an oscillation of the guide face in the conveying or feeding direction.
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Claims (13)
1. An apparatus for skinning fish fillets, comprising a rotatable skinning roller, conveyor means for advancing the fillet to the skinning roller, and a skinning knife provided with a cutting edge at a fixed distance from and a presser face equi-spaced from the periphery of the skinning roller, wherein the periphery of the skinning roller is provided a) with recess means distributed over the circumference of said skinning roller and extending from one end face of the latter to the opposite end face and b) with lands enclosed between said recess means for transporting the fillet and supporting it at the skin side thereof, each of said lands, when measured in the direction of the circumference of said skinning roller having a width which is a multiple of the width of each of said recess means.
2. An apparatus for skinning fish fillets, comprising a rotatable skinning roller, conveyor means for advancing the fillet to the skinning roller, and a skinning knife provided with a cutting edge at a fixed distance from and a presser face equi-spaced from the periphery of the skinning roller, wherein the periphery of the skinning roller is provided a) with recess means distributed over the circumference of the skinning roller and extending axially of the skinning roller from one end face of the latter to the opposite end face and b) with lands enclosed between said recess means for trans-porting the fillet and supporting it at the skin side thereof, each of said lands, when measured in the direction of the cir-cumference of said skinning roller, having a width which is a multiple of the width of each of said recess means.
3. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said recess means have the form of grooves.
4. An apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein said recess means have the form of grooves.
5. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the conveyor means comprise an endless belt, and a rotatable trans-fer roller is disposed between said belt and said skinning roller, said transfer roller being provided with a fine toothing.
6. An apparatus as claimed in claims 1 or 2, wherein said recess means are so arranged that for any angular position of the skinning roller at least part of the recess means are dis-posed opposite the presser face.
7. An apparatus as claimed in claims 3 or 4, wherein said groove means have a base which is narrower than the mouth thereof, and opposite side walls which taper towards each other from said mouth, the depth of the groove means being less than the least width thereof.
8. An apparatus as claimed in claims 1 and 2, wherein the lands of the skinning roller are rough.
9. An apparatus as claims in claims 1 or 2, wherein the lands of the skinning roller are provided with a fine toothing.
10. An apparatus as claimed in claims 1 or 2, wherein a presser roller is disposed in proximity to the cutting edge of the skinning knife.
11. An apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein a guide face is arranged above the skinning roller and at an acute angle with a tangent line drawn from the cutting edge of the skinning knife to the circum?erence of the skinning roller, said guide face having the cutting edge of the skinning knife, lies on the back of the skinning knife and is arranged to yield in an upward direction.
12. An apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein said guide face is pivotable about an axis parallel to the axis of the skinning roller and performs an oscillating movement of small amplitude in the conveying direction of the fish fillets.
13. An apparatus as claimed in claims 1 or 2, wherein the trailing flanks of said recess means are backwardly inclined opposite to the direction of rotation of the skinning roller.
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| CA317,895A CA1090066A (en) | 1978-12-13 | 1978-12-13 | Apparatus for the skinning of fish fillets |
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| CA317,895A CA1090066A (en) | 1978-12-13 | 1978-12-13 | Apparatus for the skinning of fish fillets |
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