Cutting – Processes – Plural cutting steps
Patent
1979-07-26
1981-07-07
Yost, Frank T.
Cutting
Processes
Plural cutting steps
83160, 83395, 83419, 83578, 83622, B26D 106
Patent
active
042767954
ABSTRACT:
A number of pairs of frozen fish slabs are arranged vertically in an equal number of laterally spaced vertical tubes or chutes constituting a magazine, each tube or chute having a partition dividing it into two open-ended compartments with a slab being slidably contained in each compartment. A cutter assembly comprising a blade carrier and a vertically adjustable table move as a unit at an acute angle beneath the magazine. The carrier has fixedly mounted at another acute angle thereon a plurality of flat blades equal in number to the number of tubes or chutes, each blade having a knife edge extending along opposite sides thereof so that when the cutter assembly is advanced in one direction the lower end of one of the slabs of each pair of slabs is severed and when retracted the lower end of the other of the slabs of each pair is severed to form individual fish sticks having a thickness determined by the distance the table is spaced below the plane in which the blades move. Whereas the thickness of the fish sticks is determined by the height of the table, the length and width thereof are determined by the cross section of the frozen slabs. The table has appropriately located openings therein so that the fish sticks gravitationally drop into angled troughs after they have been severed from the slabs. The fish sticks are then pushed from the angled troughs onto a conveyor in a uniformly-oriented manner suitable for food processing operations, such as breading and battering.
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Eiden Leo
Huston Larry
Morrison Clifton H.
Morse Donald W.
Rasmussen Glenn
Enockson Gene O.
General Mills Inc.
Lillehaugen L. MeRoy
Yost Frank T.
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