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OT-2026-000003398

Method and apparatus for automatically cutting food products to predetermined weight or shape

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Manufacturing & Assembly Equipment › Machining Systems
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US-RE33904-E, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 28 April 1992
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Food products, such as fish fillets, chicken fillets, and many others, are cut to predetermined portion sizes of equal weight and volume, or to predetermined profile shapes, by moving the food products on a conveyor, scanning them as they move through a shadow line with a camera capable of providing a programmed computer with dimensional data, and utilizing the computer to control the operation of a plurality of high pressure water jet cutters to cut the food products to reduced sizes as dictated by the computer program.

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Abstract

Food products, such as fish fillets, chicken fillets, and many others, are cut to predetermined portion sizes of equal weight and volume, or to predetermined profile shapes, by moving the food products on a conveyor, scanning them as they move through a shadow line with a camera capable of providing a programmed computer with dimensional data, and utilizing the computer to control the operation of a plurality of high pressure water jet cutters to cut the food products to reduced sizes as dictated by the computer program.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000003398, “Method and apparatus for automatically cutting food products to predetermined weight or shape,” published September 15, 2026 at 20:21:53 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000003398.

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