Automatic meat arranging device for automatic meat cutting machine

Claim 1

An automatic meat arranging device for an automatic meat cutting machine comprising: meat slice conveying means for receiving a meat slice sequentially cut by the automatic meat cutting machine and for sending the meat slice in a spread-flat fashion to a predetermined meat receiving position; and means forwardly moving a meat tray from the meat receiving position to a position where the meat slice is completely received on the meat tray, and returning the meat tray to said meat receiving position so that a repetitive reciprocating movement can be effected, the forward movement of the meat tray moving means being effected at a speed synchronized with a meat feeding speed and in the same direction as the meat slice feeding direction of said meat slice conveying means, said meat tray moving means further displacing said meat tray a desired amount for each one reciprocating movement so that one meat slice is overlappingly placed on another on the meat tray with the edge of the meat slice displaced with respect to the edge of the adjacent meat slice.