Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1990-10-09
1991-07-23
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
53251, 53534, 99427, 99443C, 198431, A47J 2700, B65B 3546, B65G 4729
Patent
active
050333674
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a machine for advancing bakery pans in a step wise fashion along a production line. A rotary indexer having three radially extending arms mounted on a common shaft and spaced apart 120.degree. relative to adjacent arms is used to advance the pans step-wise one cup at a time. Each arm has distal ends at which rollers are mounted which engage the upper portion extending about the perimeter of each cup. A single stroke air cylinder has a wedge mounted to its piston. The wedge engages a cam assembly mounted on the shaft to which the rotary indexer is mounted. Retraction of the wedge allows the pans to push against the rotary indexer to rotate it. The wedge returns to a position to stop rotation of the shaft, only allowing the shaft to rotate through a 120.degree. turn. The pan moves step-wise along the assembly line path into a position to receive a dough packet from a conveyor that deposits dough packets into the cups. The rotary indexer is mounted to be moved manually towards and away from the path of travel of the pans to accommodate pans having cups of different depths.
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