Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
2000-01-19
2000-11-28
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
994507, 99348, A23L 100, A23P 100, F16L 1900, F16L 23036
Patent
active
061520217
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism (10) includes a slide plate (32) having die openings (38) adapted to hold dies (42a, 42b) and slideable relative to a cooker/extruder (12). Rotary cutters (74) are rotatably mounted relative to and moveable with the dies (42a, 42b). A motor (76) can be connected and disconnected to the rotary cutter (74) aligned with the cooker/extruder (12) by a male coupling (96) including an elastomeric band (106) tensioned in a groove (102) formed in an outer peripheral surface (100) and received within the inside surface (116) of a cylindrical body (114) of a female coupling (108). The rotary cutters (74) include a plurality of knives (90) mounted to an annular cutter head (82) rotatably mounted upon a center shaft (80) axially extending from each of the dies (42a, 42b). Thus, it is not necessary to shut down the cooker/extruder (12) to service or change the dies (42a, 42b) and/or the rotary cutters (74).
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Cremers Thomas G.
Weinstein James N.
General Mills Inc.
Kamrath Alan D.
O'Toole John A.
Simone Timothy
Taylor Douglas J.
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