Due to the increasingly stringent hygienic regulations especially in the salmon industry, BAADER has improved the well-known BAADER 200 Filleting Machine.
The relaunched BAADER 200 was introduced to the international market at the Seafood Processing Show in Brussels in April 2002.
The BAAADER 200 has been improved under the following aspects:
* Areas where there is heavier contamination shall be easier accessible.
* Areas that cannot be cleaned shall be avoided.
* Electrical cables shall be so laid that they are concealed.
* Fastening screws should preferably not be visible.
The main important sections which are improved are:
Waste chutes
The machine can be closed from the bottom in the central and rear part when equipped with the addition offal chute. The process water will then be collected together with the skeleton in the rear part of the machine. The forward part of the machine is always closed from the bottom. Flume water will be discharged by the customer into this part of the flume
Infeed section
The fish tray can be hinged up very easy after having loosened a star handle.
After having loosened four further star handles, the tabletops can be removed. Thus, the forward saddle guidance assembly, the saddle return, parts of the saddle chain and the area between the forward machine housing are accessible. Better access is also possible to the area below the back and belly cutting section.
A door is arranged on the front of the saddle return. From here, access to the forward flume is also good.
The ribbed cast aluminium covering above the saddle return was replaced by a plate construction with smooth surfaces.
Discharge conveyor
The fillet belts are designed as cassette type. The right-hand and subsequently the left-hand fillet belt can be completely removed from the machine.
Now the area under the severing knife is accessible. The area under the scraping device can be reached from here as well.
As this fillet belt is approximately 80 mm wider than the previous endless conveyor belt and arranged horizontally up to the scraping knife, salmons within the upper working range of the machine will be turned by the fillet turnover device as well.
The fillets lying now on the skin-side will no longer glide so easily to the subsequent conveyor belts or trimming tables because the gliding direction is opposite to the arrangement of the scales.
For this reason, the belt cassettes are approx. 170 mm longer in comparison with the previous belt design. Thus, the fillets can be transferred directly without the need of using chutes.
The upper part of the bone chute can be turned to the side after having loosened another star handle so that the inside of the bone chute is accessible as well.
The severing knife supports of rough cast aluminium on the rear side, which in addition is not easily accessible, have been replaced by a construction with smooth surfaces in order to realize the wide fillet belt.
The ON/OFF button is located on a mast arranged on the right-hand side of the operator. The mast is now fixed laterally to the machine housing. In case of repair, the cover above the saddle return can be removed very quickly. In the future, the ON/OFF button does no longer need to be disconnected.
The tabletops, safety barriers as well as the fillet belts are monitored by magnetic switches.
The electrical equipment necessary to this effect is accommodated in the machine housing next to the standard electric equipment.
A clearly arranged remote panel with red light-emitting diodes on the left-hand side of the operator indicates why the machine does not start.
The operating pushbutton and the pushbutton for releasing the motor brake do no longer use any protective hoods that are difficult to clean.
Machine safety general
In the framework of safety, in addition to guard plates (everywhere), safety panes (in way of the bone guidance and fillet belt) and safety barriers (at the accesses to the catwalks) were installed in the course of time as well.
The measures mentioned first often impede cleaning and are even places for bacteria growth.
For this reason, these measures were removed to the greatest extent.
