Movable stacker for a food loaf slicing machine

Details Movable stacker for a food loaf slicing machine Movable stacker for a food loaf slicing machine

1987-10-13

1988-08-02

Schran, Donald R.

Cutting

With product handling means

Including means to form or hold pile of product pieces

83 29, 414 45, 271217, B26D 732

Patent

active

047607653

ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns a stacker for a food loaf slicing machine of the type which includes first and second stack supports capable of being alternately positioned so as to receive food loaf slices of generally uniform thickness thereon as they are cyclically cut from the end of a food loaf at a slicing station into which the food loaf is advanced. When one of the stack supports has received a stack of N slices thereon, it is momentarily rotated a half turn outwardly of its slice receiving position under a force which exceeds a frictional force exerted between the underside of the stack and the upper surface of the stack support. As the one stack support is so rotated, the stack of slices present thereon is, virtually without being subject to any lateral force, allowed to fall freely downward as it is, until it is placed on a conveyor. Thereupon, the other stack support, which has been held on standby outside of and at same level as an initial slice receiving position, is momentarily rotated a half turn and thus brought to the initial slice receiving position before a first slice of a next slicing cycle falls down to the slice receiving position. Each time this other stack support receives a slice, it is cyclically lowered a distance corresponding to each additional slice. While the other stack support is in the process of being displaced downward, the one stack support is elevated to the level of the initial slice receiving position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3161215 (1964-12-01), Werder et al.
patent: 3824885 (1974-07-01), Marshall et al.
patent: 4405186 (1983-09-01), Sandberg et al.

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