Meat inspection system

• Main Authors: Eiriksson Hrafnkell, Sigurdsson Árni
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.10.2017
• Subjects: BUTCHERING; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MEAT TREATMENT; PHYSICS; PROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH; PROCESSING POULTRY OR FISH; TESTING

A meat inspection and sorting line comprising supply means, a radiation inspection facility, a cutting facility and a reject facility. Meat parts are brought together and fed into the radiation inspection facility by means of a conveyor in a layer of meat parts. An undesired object is detected by the radiation inspection facility by means of e.g. an X-ray technique and a part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is identified and separated from the layer of meat parts by the cutting facility. The identified and separated part of the layer of meat parts containing the undesired object is rejected by the reject facility from the layer of meat parts.