OPENTECHNICAL PUBLICATION
OT-2026-000003398

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

Published: 2026-09-15T20:21:53.205844Z
Permanent URL: https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000003398
Categories: Manufacturing & Assembly Equipment > Machining Systems

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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.

1. Drawings

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[0002] Sheet 2.

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OpenTechnical publication OT-2026-000003398
Published 2026-09-15T20:21:53.205844Z
https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000003398