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US3981660:
Apparatus for cutting slices of semi-frozen food products
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Forcella, Peter W.; Los Gatos, CA
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| Assignee: |
FMC Corporation, San Jose, CA
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| Published / Filed: |
1976-09-21
/ 1975-02-12
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| Application Number: |
US1975000549264
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A23G 9/28;
B26D 1/547;
B26D 1/553;
B26D 3/28;
B26F 3/12;
Core:
A23G 9/04;
B26D 1/01;
B26D 3/00;
B26F 3/06;
IPC-7:
A23G 9/14;
A23G 9/28;
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| ECLA Code: |
A23G9/28D6;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
425/232;
083/647;
083/647.5;
425/311;
Original:
425/232;
083/647.5;
083/647;
425/311;
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| Field of Search: |
425/311,232
083/647,647.5,168,651.1
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| Priority Number: |
| 1975-02-12 |
US1975000549264 |
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| Abstract: |
A vertically disposed nozzle continuously extrudes a descending column or bar of semi-frozen confection which passes through a ring gear. A cutoff wire is anchored to the ring gear and to a second, laterally adjacent ring gear. Slip rings adjacent the ring gears electrically energize and heat the cutoff wire. Both gears are driven in the same direction, and the anchor points are located to maintain uniform interspacing and thus keep the cutoff wire linear to transversely slice the moving product bar. The gears and cutoff wire are adjustably mounted to be unitarily tilted from the horizontal so that the product bar is repetitively severed along parallel lines to produce slices each having uniform thickness, with the severance lines perpendicular to the side surfaces of the product bar. A wiper is arranged to clean the cutoff wire after each cutting stroke so that the product will not accumulate and burn onto the cutoff wire.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Tripp, C. E. ;
Catto, R. B. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Husar, Francis S.; Safran, David S.
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. Apparatus for forming slices of a food product such as semi-frozen ice cream or the like, comprising:
- a. a vertical axis extrusion nozzle for extruding a substantially vertical column of the product;
- b. a first rotatable member comprising an annulus that surrounds the lower end of said nozzle;
- c. a second rotatable member laterally adjacent said first member;
- d. means operatively associated with said rotatable members for driving both members in a common direction and at the same angular velocity;
- e. means for rotatably mounting a wire clamp on each member, the two clamps being equally spaced from the axes of their respective members and being positioned so that the distance between the clamps remains constant during rotation of said members;
- f. a heated cutoff wire anchored to said wire clamps to cut the unsupported extruded product column and sever an individual slice, and
- g. a conveyor movable beneath said nozzle for receiving product slices.
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