A meat processing system and method wherein trim pieces of meat having lean meat portions and fat meat portions are divided into smaller regular sized meat chunks of higher lean meat content and chunks of higher fat content. The chunks are passed seriatim through a photometric sensing zone to photometrically detect an optical property related to the lean meat or fat content of the meat chunks and the meat chunks are thereafter sorted in accordance with the value of the optical property sensed in…

A tank of relatively thin wall construction, and which is provided with a plurality of exterior reinforcing vertical and horizontal rib members, and in which the tank itself is of a generally rectangular shape in cross section, having a flat bottom, an upwardly arched roof, and inwardly arched side walls, the ribs extending completely around the tank at spaced intervals along its length, and being arranged in such a manner that the hydrostatic pressures developed in the tank will be resisted by …

A complex waveform synthesizer comprises a plurality of digital oscillators producing unit waveforms at distinct frequencies and constituted by respective storage zones storing, as digital words, the momentary values of the waveforms. The required amplitudes of the waveforms are produced by a digital modulator supplied with trains of digital desired amplitude values from a digital interpolator receiving corresponding trains of desired digital values at a slower rate than those supplied by the in…

A product conveyor for use in processing machinery such as freezers and the like, in which a series of product conveying mats is continuously moved in a closed path from a rising section in which the mats are raised gradually upwardly during the process, a transfer section in which the mats are transferred from the top of the rising section to a falling section where they are conveyed downwardly through the processing environment, and to an unloading station and a return section where the produc…

A method of processing wire comprises drawing it by at least one capstan through at least two dies to produce a reduction in area of at least 30 percent and passing through the or each wire directly (i.e. without an intermediate accumulator) into subsequent processing apparatus. The or each drawing capstan is driven at a peripheral speed greater than the speed of the wire engaged thereby, and the subsequent processing apparatus includes means determining the speed of the wire, during drawing as …

A novel cheese molding apparatus which provides for molding and processing cheese into cylindrical form, without intermediate handling of the curd, by compressing curd between semi-cylindrical mold inserts adapted to be used in conventional cheese-processing vats. The molding vat provides drainage for whey and insures a more constant temperature during the processing and molding steps. The apparatus includes an array of cutting filaments for uniformly slicing the cheese cylinders into predetermi…

A continuous synthetic filament yarn is processed by crimping, entangling, and straightening the yarn. The yarn is straightened by heating under tension, resulting in a yarn that can be used in its straightened form and later bulked by a subsequent process such as dyeing, boiling, heating etc. The length of a yarn plug formed by crimping is controlled by controlling the temperature of the yarn.

A processing device for stretching video signals in a pulse radar system between the output of the receiver of large pass bandwidth and exploiting means such as an oscilloscope. A delay line connected to the output of the receiver provides a plurality of output signals to an non-linear circuit which transmits, to said exploiting means, only the signal having the greatest amplitude and blocks the other signal for preserving the signal to noise ratio.

The present invention relates to a processing apparatus for growing and annealing a silicon dioxide insulator layer to obtain a mobile positive ion free silicon dioxide insulator layer. A mobile positive ion free silicon dioxide insulator layer is required in order to make a stable insulated gate field effect transistor. The processing apparatus comprises a non-oxidizing, high-melting-point platinum metal film coated quartz furnace tube, potential means for placing a positive potential upon the …

A tank having an agitator therein comprised of a plurality of plates horizontally mounted on a support rod urged to one side of the tank by a resilient member coupling the bottom of the support rod to a plinth. One of the plates extends beyond the other plates so that its forward projecting portion lies beneath an inlet in the top of the tank through which photographic material mounted in a frame is inserted so that the bottom of the frame pushes the plate down moving the other plates and the su…