Food product handling device
AssigneeF.R. Drake Company
InventorsAndre Richards, Thomas Ivy, Keith Wayne Hopkins, George Reed
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Abstract
A food product handling device is provided. The food product handling device can include a movable loading head having a plurality of rails and a vacuum system operatively associated with the head. In addition, a plurality of suction devices carried by the head and configured to pick up and transport a food product as the head is moved can be provided. A plurality of mounting blocks can be slidably coupled to the rails where at least one suction device is coupled to each mounting block. An actuating device can be operatively associated with the mounting blocks such that each mounting block is configured to slide between a first position and a second position.
Claims13
A food product handling device, comprising:
- a movable loading head including a housing and having a first pair of parallel rails mounted to said housing;
- a vacuum system operatively associated with said head;
- a plurality of suction devices carried by said head and configured to pick up and transport a food product as said head is moved, wherein each suction device is coupled to said vacuum system;
- a plurality of mounting blocks mounted transversely and slidably coupled to and suspended from said first pair of rails, each mounting block further comprises a first groove slidably coupled to a first rail of said pair of parallel rails and a second groove slidably coupled to a second rail of said pair of parallel rails and wherein at least one suction device is coupled to each mounting block;
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- an actuating device operatively associated with the mounting blocks such that said mountings blocks are moveable in two separated groups between a first position and a second position and said mounting blocks slide along said first pair of parallel rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.