Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means
Patent
1981-05-12
1983-07-26
Hoag, Willard E.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
264 407, 264142, 264145, 264148, 222483, 425296, 425308, 425377, 425383, 425466, 426503, 426512, A23P 100, B29F 304
Patent
active
043954278
ABSTRACT:
A depositing apparatus for the manufacture of shaped food product includes a hopper having an open top for receiving a prepared mix. Feed rollers positioned within the lower end of the hopper force mix through an extrusion die assembly. The die assembly includes an elongated plate defining a plurality of apertures and supporting a plurality of dies in coaxial relationship with the apertures. A variable restrictor is supported at each of the apertures for varying the effective open area or flow area of the apertures. The flow area may be varied to compensate for variations in weight, consistency or volume of the mix so that relatively uniform weight shapes are deposited onto a conveyor passing underneath the feed hopper. The variable restrictor includes a pair of opposed plates having edges configured in a complementary fashion to the cross-sectional shape of the die. A drive is operably connected to each of the plates so that they may be moved towards and away from each other into the aperture.
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Anderson Joseph R.
Dennis Thomas A.
Fischer Harry A.
Koepnick Paul J.
Hoag Willard E.
Werner Lehara, Inc.
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