Food product conveyor and handling systems

Details Food product conveyor and handling systems Food product conveyor and handling systems

2011-08-23

2011-08-23

Adams, Gregory W (Department: 3652)

Material or article handling

Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...

Stack forming apparatus

C414S793400, C414S790600

Reexamination Certificate

active

08002513

ABSTRACT:
A conveyor system for assembling and stacking sliced food products is provided. The conveyor system includes an assembly area, wherein groups of a predetermined quantity of sliced food products travel from a slicer on a conveyor and are deposited on discrete carrier sheets on a downstream conveyor. The assembly area is configured to delay advancement of the carrier sheets on the downstream conveyor until a group of the predetermined quantity is formed. The slicer is configured to calculate the number of slices in each group and determine whether a group is complete. A stacking area of the conveyor system includes a nose conveyor that extends and retracts to deposit each carrier sheet onto a pair of initial supports. The initial supports reciprocate away from each other in opposing directions to drop the carrier sheet onto a subsequent level, with the initial supports reciprocating each time a carrier sheet is deposited thereon.

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