Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1988-04-21
1989-05-23
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99549, 198384, A23N 300, A23N 408
Patent
active
048319244
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for aligning articles as the articles are translated in cups along a substantially circular path. In one embodiment, each cup is formed in the outer surface of a rotating cylindrical drum, and one or more slots, each oriented parallel to the substantially circular path, extend through each cup's bottom surface. A stationary, notch alignment strip is positioned in at least one of the slots. As the cups translate past the notched strip, the strip bumps the articles in the cups to urge them into a uniform alignment. In a preferred embodiment, the slots are spaced and dimensioned to receive parallel slicing knives. In an important application of the invention, the cups are dimensioned to carry pitted olives, and the slots are spaced and dimensioned to receive a set of parallel olive slicing knives.
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Ashlock Company, a Division of Vistan Corporation
Equitz Alfred A.
Simone Timothy F.
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