Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus – Preform severing means – Means forming from bulk and downstream severing means
Patent
1976-01-02
1977-11-29
Flint, Jr., J. Howard
Plastic article or earthenware shaping or treating: apparatus
Preform severing means
Means forming from bulk and downstream severing means
425308, A21C 1110
Patent
active
040603679
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for controllably driving a plunger in a dough forming apparatus of the type that has a chamber in which the plunger resides to move dough in incremental steps toward one end of the chamber. Spanning the one end of the chamber is a plurality of parallely spaced apart elongate members, the spacing between the elongate members corresponding to the thickness of a french fry shaped piece, e.g. 1/4 inch. The plunger is advanced by increments of a similar distance, the distance corresponding to the width of the french fry piece and when a plurality of dough bodies protrude through the spaces between the elongate members a single wire cutter is reciprocated across the exterior of the elongate members to sever the protruding bodies thus to form french fry shaped pieces. In order that the pieces possess a square or substantially square cross sectional shape, the mechanism of the invention assures accurate incremental advancement of the plunger as well as affording a quiescent period during which the wire cutter is reciprocated across a transverse plane exterior with the surface of the elongate members. An extremely simple and accurate drive mechanism for assuring constant incremental advancement. A mechanism which in addition to affording constant incremental advance of the plunger provides a quiescent period for transverse dough cutting and affords actuation of the dough cutter during such quiescent period in response to a single driving stroke applied to the mechanism.
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Harmon James F.
Lach John H.
Shatila Mounir A.
Veeneman John L.
AMPCO Foods Inc.
Briggs W. R.
Flint, Jr. J. Howard
Olson Thomas H.
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