Cutting – With product handling means – Means to move – guide – or permit free fall or flight of product
Patent
1987-07-17
1988-08-30
Kazenske, E. R.
Cutting
With product handling means
Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product
83167, 83409, 83411R, 83422, 834253, 83439, B26D 706
Patent
active
047667915
ABSTRACT:
A slicing apparatus particularly suitable for slicing livers. A plurality of adjacently spaced apart blades are mounted within a drum rotatable about the blades. The blades are disposed toward one side of the drum in close proximity to the peripheral wall thereof to form a cutting zone. Pockets are provided in the peripheral wall of the drum, the pockets being formed with gaps which align with the blades. As the drum and the pockets rotate through the cutting zone, the blades pass through the pockets and slice livers therein. The cutting zone is positioned in a lower quadrant of the drum and, with respect to the drum's rotational direction, immediately before lower dead-center thereof. Thus as a pocket enters the cutting zone it is being inverted and on exiting the cutting zone a pocket has been completely inverted. On exiting the cutting zone the sliced contents are deposited into a tray provided on a packaging tray conveyor positioned adjacently beneath the drum. The action of the drum and the conveyor are co-ordinated to register the positioning of a tray with the arrival of the pockets at the lower dead-center position. A retaining block mounted on pneumatic rams is provided to impinge on to a liver as the supporting pocket therefor becomes inverted and passes through the cutting zone. The retaining block retracts as a pocket leaves the cutting zone to register with the next set of pockets as they enter the cutting zone.
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Gavin Bruce M.
McMillan Richard A.
Senner Edward A.
Kazenske E. R.
Smith Scott A.
Southland Frozen Meat Limited
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