Cutting – Processes – With subsequent handling
Patent
1996-07-25
1998-03-10
Peterson, Kenneth E.
Cutting
Processes
With subsequent handling
83 77, 83 86, 83102, 834031, 83932, B26D 730
Patent
active
057248745
ABSTRACT:
A high speed food loaf slicing machine slices two food loaves simultaneously, using one cyclically driven knife blade; the slices are stacked or shingled in groups on a receiving conveyor located below the slicing station. Independent loaf feed drives are provided; slices cut from one loaf may be thicker than slices from the other. Each loaf feed drive includes two "short" conveyors each driven at a predetermined speed; the conveyor speeds may be different. In each machine cycle the receiving conveyor is moved down to accommodate an increasing number of slices; when a slicing cycle is completed, the receiving conveyor rapidly discharges the slice groups onto a deceleration conveyor and moves back up to start a new slicing operation. The loaf feed drives are reversed at the end of a slicing cycle, stopped, and then reversed again before the next slicing cycle. In each machine cycle previously cut groups of slices are weighed as they traverse a scale conveyor; the weights thus determined control two transfer conveyors, one for each loaf sliced. The weights also control the loaf feed drives that determine slice thickness.
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Janssen Wilbur A.
Lindee Scott A.
Wolcott Thomas C.
Formax, Inc.
Peterson Kenneth E.
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