Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – Automatic control
Patent
1998-11-24
2000-05-23
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
Automatic control
99353, 99386, 99443C, 198431, 1984634, 1984642, 53251, 53534, A47J 2700, B65G 4700
Patent
active
060653906
ABSTRACT:
A conveyor indexing mechanism for a bakery production line includes a variable speed motor, a conveyor, a number of baking pans, a dough packet drop mechanism, a sensor, and a timing generator. The conveyor moves the baking pans under the dough packet drop mechanism at a base speed and a ramp-up speed based on input from the sensor and timing generator. The sensor senses pan pockets in the baking pans which causes the motor to assume the base speed. The timing generator periodically causes the motor to assume the ramp-up speed. The indexing mechanism ensures that a row of pan pockets will be below the dough packet drop mechanism so that a row of dough packets will consistently fall therein with maximum throughput. The absence of any clutch or brake reduces wear, as does the continuous motion of the drive train, which prevents backlash in the gear components. A programmable controller receives system inputs and instructs an inverter to change the motor speed. A pair of potentiometers can easily set the base and ramp-up speeds.
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Connors John J.
Simone Timothy
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