Separator for a food-product grinding machine with ring adjustment

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11173497
APP PUB NO 20180071746A1
SERIAL NO

15689300

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A grinding machine for grinding food-products, such as meat or the like, includes an orifice plate at the outlet of a grinding head. The orifice plate has collection passages that discharge a mixture of soft material and hard material through the orifice plate. A separator assembly, including a separator screw and separation chamber, is located downstream of the orifice plate for separating the soft material from the hard material. A ring adjustment assembly includes a ring valve having an internal conical portion in communication with a nose portion of the separator screw, and a ring valve carrier configured to reciprocally displace the ring valve in an axial direction relative to the separator screw so as to vary a gap between the nose portion of the separator screw and the internal conical portion of the ring valve. Adjustment of the gap distance determines an amount of the hard material that is passed toward the discharge outlet.

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PROVISUR TECHNOLOGIES INC222 NORTH LASALLE STREET SUITE 720 CHICAGO IL 60601

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Albrecht, Christopher Cambridge, US 4 8
Hahn, Timothy Clinton, US 4 30
Levande, Nathan Darien, US 2 8
Schinkowsky, Kyle Whitewater, US 5 12
Wight, E William Roscoe, US 34 218

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