Slicing device, and method for slicing workpiece

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12414571-B2
Application number	US-202318835278-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 10, 2023
Priority date	May 11, 2022
Publication date	Sep 16, 2025
Grant date	Sep 16, 2025

Abstract

A slicing device includes cutter device, workpiece holding part, relative movement device, and slicing position operating part. The cutter device has slicing blade that is driven in a direction along a blade surface. The workpiece holding part holds workpiece. The relative movement device moves the workpiece holding part and the cutter device relative to one another in slicing direction in which meat of a workpiece is sliced. The slicing position operating part moves the slicing blade of the cutter device toward and away with respect to the workpiece, which moves relatively in the slicing direction, from a direction intersecting the slicing direction. A blade surface portion that cuts the workpiece along a driving direction of the slicing blade and a pressing portion that presses an outer surface of the workpiece are alternately disposed at a position of the slicing blade where the slicing blade comes into contact with the workpiece.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A slicing device comprising:
a cutter device having a slicing blade that is driven in a direction along a blade surface;
a workpiece holding part configured to hold the workpiece;
a relative movement device configured to relatively move the workpiece holding part and the cutter device in a slicing direction in which a meat of the workpiece is sliced; and
a slicing position operating part configured to move the slicing blade of the cutter device toward and away with respect to the workpiece, that moves relatively in the slicing direction, in a direction intersecting the slicing direction,
wherein a blade surface portion that cuts the workpiece and a pressing portion that presses an outer surface of the workpiece are alternately disposed at a position of the slicing blade where the slicing blade comes into contact with the workpiece in a driving direction of the slicing blade.

2. The slicing device according to claim 1 , wherein the workpiece is bone-in meat with a meat part attached to a bone part,
the workpiece holding part holds the bone part of the bone-in meat, and
the cutter device slices the meat part of the bone-in meat from the bone part.

3. A method for slicing a workpiece, comprising:
using a slicing blade in which a blade surface portion that cuts a workpiece and a pressing portion that presses an outer surface of the workpiece are alternately disposed at a position of the slicing blade where the slicing blade comes into contact with the workpiece in a driving direction;
driving the slicing blade and relatively moving the workpiece and the slicing blade in a slicing direction; and
displacing the slicing blade with respect to the relatively moving workpiece from a direction intersecting the slicing direction.

4. The method for slicing a workpiece according to claim 3 , wherein the workpiece is bone-in meat with a meat part attached to a bone part, and
a position of the slicing blade in a direction intersecting the slicing direction is displaced along an outer surface shape of the bone part with respect to the bone-in meat that relatively moves in a longitudinal direction of the bone part.

Assignees

• Maekawa Seisakusho Kk

Inventors

• Kodama Ryuji
• Usui Hiroyuki
• UMEDA Seiichiro
• Goto Osamu
• Hane Shinji
• Toyoda Naoki

Classifications

• A22C17/0033

  Cutting slices out of a piece of meat (slicing machines B26D1/143) · CPC title

• B26D2001/0053

  having a special cutting edge section or blade section · CPC title

• B26D2001/0086

  having a radiussed blunt cutting edge · CPC title

• B26D1/14

  with a circular cutting member, e.g. disc cutter · CPC title

• B26D1/06

  wherein the cutting member reciprocates (cup or like cutting members B26D1/44) · CPC title