Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1995-11-06
1996-11-26
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
994507, 285 27, 285360, A23L 100, A23P 100, F16L 1900, F16L 23036
Patent
active
055774377
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism (10) is disclosed including a slide plate (32) having die openings (38) adapted to hold dies (42a, 42b) and slideably mounted between the axial downstream face of a barrel extension (20) and an annular pressure seal (56) and the axially upstream face of an annular pressure plate (48). The annular pressure seal (56) is axially adjustably mounted to a first mechanism frame element (18) and the annular pressure plate (48) is mounted to a second mechanism frame element (46). The framework (68) of a cutter assembly (66) is mounted by a hinge (70) to the second mechanism frame element (46) and is carried thereby. The central openings (52, 54) of the annular pressure plate (48) and the second mechanism frame element (46) are frustoconical in shape having circular cross sections to allow exit of food extrudates from the dies (42a, 42b) without hang-up and providing maximum clearance and visibility of the rotary cutter (74) of the cutter assembly (66). The slide plate (32) is slid by a hydraulic cylinder (44) in a linear path to move one of the dies (42a, 42b) from axial alignment with the pressure seal (56) and pressure plate (48) to the other of the dies (42a, 42b) being in axial alignment with the pressure seal (56) and pressure plate (48) without idling the cooker/extruder (12).
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General Mills Inc.
Kamrath Alan D.
Lillehaugen L. MeRoy
O'Toole John A.
Simone Timothy F.
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