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Abstract

An apparatus and method for continuously chopping, pulverizing and mixing edible material such as animal or fish meat which involves continuously chopping square-shaped frozen blocks of the material and adding thereto sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate, and sodium chloride or sodium caseinate, mixing and pulverizing the resultant mixture and adding an emulsifying agent thereto to prepare an emulsion. The method is further applicable to chopping, pulverizing and mixing beans by continuously chopping square-shaped frozen blocks of coarsely ground beans and pulverizing the chopped material. The apparatus includes a chopping cylinder, a chopping rotary drum rotatably mounted and having a feed screw and a plurality of chopping knives, a feeding device for feeding the blocks of frozen raw material, and a delivery ridge portion formed in an outer peripheral surface of the chopping drum, wherein the pulverizing unit has a pulverizing cylinder and a rotatably mounted pulverizing rotary drum having pulverizing knives, a plurality of scrapper blades and feeding ridge portions.

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