Cutting – Tool engages work during dwell of intermittent workfeed – Work moved solely by movable abutment
Reexamination Certificate
2008-09-18
2010-12-14
Choi, Stephen (Department: 3724)
Cutting
Tool engages work during dwell of intermittent workfeed
Work moved solely by movable abutment
C083S221000, C083S391000, C083S932000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07849771
ABSTRACT:
This invention includes a system for cutting food products, such as potatoes, into proportional length pieces. In a one embodiment, the system includes a cutting assembly, sensors upstream of the cutting assembly and a programmable logic controller. The cutting assembly preferably includes a housing defining a passageway, at least two separately actuatable stops extendable into the passageway to provide an abutment to hold the food product in place, and at least two separately actuatable blades for slicing the food product into pieces. The controller cooperates with the sensors to determine the length of each food product and, based on a length determinative algorithm, selectively actuate one of the stops and at least one of the blades to determine how many times the food product will be sliced and location of the cut(s) relative to the leading end of the food product.
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Brockman Gary R.
Julian John C.
Wetherbee Trent R.
Choi Stephen
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, Inc.
Klarquist & Sparkman, LLP
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