Alignment mechanism for food products

Details Alignment mechanism for food products Alignment mechanism for food products

2011-07-19

2011-07-19

Hess, Douglas A (Department: 3651)

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By queueing items from quantity source of items into stream...

C198S444000, C198S445000, C198S455000, C198S750100

Reexamination Certificate

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07980381

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method are described for aligning food products in a plurality of rows for feeding a subsequent processing operation in a production process. The apparatus includes first and second continuous belt conveyors adjacent to each other, a dispensing plate operable to delay movement of the plurality of food products and cluster the food products together. The food products are then periodically distributed onto the second continuous belt conveyor, improving dispersion of the food products thereon. Guide fingers that extend and retract over the second continuous belt conveyor contact and displace the food products into rows within channels formed by longitudinal members extending over at least a portion of the second continuous belt conveyor. The rows of food products are then conveyed to the next processing operation.

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