Foods and beverages: apparatus – Edible laminated product making apparatus – Means assembling preforms into a sandwich
Patent
1995-06-05
1996-06-25
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Edible laminated product making apparatus
Means assembling preforms into a sandwich
994507, 99537, A21D 1308, A23L 131, B65B 2516, G07F 1170
Patent
active
055289835
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for the automated assembly of sandwich items, such as biscuit and sausage sandwiches, consists generally of a frame on which are carried a slicing station, a separation station and an assembly station, all of which are automated. The slicing station includes slicing means for slicing into upper and lower sections the material which is to become the exterior layers of the layered product. At the separation station the upper section is removed from the lower section thus exposing the lower section for receiving the middle layer of the layered product. The assembly station includes of a pair of pneumatically operated transfer shuttles carrying a plurality of downwardly depending pickup cylinders which include extendible piston arms having suction cups on the depending end of each arm. The transfer shuttles are operable for depositing the middle material on the lower section of the exterior material and for relocating the upper sections of exterior material on the lower sections to complete the assembly of the layered product. In one embodiment the transfer shuttles also remove the top layer prior to deposition of the middle layer so that the separation station is combined with the assembly station. The apparatus further includes a main conveyor for carrying the exterior material through the slicing, separation and the assembly stations and a second conveyor for carrying the middle material to the assembly station.
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F. B. Purnell Sausage Co., Inc.
Simone Timothy F.
Vanderburgh John E.
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