초록 ▼

Apparatus for kneading food pieces includes a rotatable drum mounted on an inclined axis. There are spiral flights along the side wall of the drum. Charging and discharging the drum is effected through an open end and the drum includes a door for airtight sealing of the drum. A vacuum can be drawn i

Apparatus for kneading food pieces includes a rotatable drum mounted on an inclined axis. There are spiral flights along the side wall of the drum. Charging and discharging the drum is effected through an open end and the drum includes a door for airtight sealing of the drum. A vacuum can be drawn inside the drum for different types of food processing. The processor can be used for blending constituents for food products. The kneading action can be applied to massaging or tumbling meat chunks, and treatment liquids can be added to the drum and/or the food pieces for processing.

대표청구항 ▼

Apparatus for kneading a multiplicity of substantially integral food pieces, comprising: (a) a rotatable drum having a sidewall, a closed end to the drum, and an open end for feeding the food pieces into the drum and discharging the food pieces from the drum, the open end being opposite the closed e

Apparatus for kneading a multiplicity of substantially integral food pieces, comprising: (a) a rotatable drum having a sidewall, a closed end to the drum, and an open end for feeding the food pieces into the drum and discharging the food pieces from the drum, the open end being opposite the closed end; (b) a mounting means for the drum to permit drum rotation about a longitudinal axis extending between the ends at an incline to the horizontal; (c) means adapted for drivingly engaging the drum thereby to permit drum rotation; and (d) spiralling flight means mounted on the inside of the sidewall of the drum and extending over substantially the length between the closed end and the open end of the drum, said spiralling flight means projecting inwardly from the sidewall for causing the integral food pieces to be continuously forced to move longitudinally within the drum from end to end in both directions and relative to the other integral food pieces by the movement of the spiralling flight means through the multiplicity of food pieces during rotation in the direction wherein the spiralling flight means progresses from the open end toward the closed end and whereby the integral food pieces are kneaded by contact with each other during said longitudinal movement within the drum, and on rotation in the opposite direction the spiralling flight means acts on the integral food pieces to move said integral food pieces generally to the drum open end; the inside of the drum and the flight means providing a structural surface without sharpened features or edges whereby the food pieces are not subject to substantial separation during movement within the drum.