US 11,833,706 B2Granted

Bread slicer

AssigneeOliver Packaging and Equipment Company

InventorsVance John Matz, Yvonne M. Johnson, John Curtis Kortman, Lorie Ann Morse

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Abstract

A bread slicer includes an infeed side and a hollow infeed assembly positioned in the infeed side, the infeed assembly having an open end and a closed end defining a chamber for receiving bread to be sliced. The bread slicer further includes a pusher for pushing the bread to be sliced along the infeed assembly, and a linkage connected to the pusher, the linkage adapted to move the infeed assembly from a bread receiving position to a predetermined position of a bread path, the linkage adapted to then move the pusher and the bread to be sliced along the bread path from the predetermined position to a delivery area. The bread slicer further includes slicing blades having sharp edges to slice bread moving along the bread path.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A bread slicer, comprising:

an infeed side;
a hollow infeed assembly positioned in the infeed side that is configured to pivot in a downward linear angled bread path, the infeed assembly having an open end and a closed end defining a chamber for receiving bread to be sliced;
a pusher for pushing the bread to be sliced along the downward linear angled bread path of the infeed assembly;
a linkage connected to the pusher, the linkage adapted to move the infeed assembly from a bread receiving position to a predetermined position, the linkage adapted to then move the pusher and the bread to be sliced along the downward linear angled bread path from the predetermined position to a delivery area;
and
slicing blades having sharp edges to slice bread moving along the downward linear angled bread path,
wherein the slicing blades are positioned at an acute angle and intersect with the downward linear angled bread path.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/047,726Filed 19 Oct 2022 · continuation
Priority: 11 Jun 2021
Published: US 2023/0056342 A123 Feb 2023
Granted: 5 Dec 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

B26D 7/32
Means for performing other operations combined with cutting: for conveying or stacking cut product
B26D 1/11
In, or substantially in, a direction parallel to the cutting edge: with a plurality of cutting members
B26D 7/0608
Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form: by pushers
B26D 2007/327
For conveying or stacking cut product: the cut products being slices of bread

Family

Application17/345,506Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Jun 2021
US 2023/0056342 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Feb 2023
US 11,541,566 B1Parent of this continuation
US 11,504,874 B1Related patent
US 2022/0395998 A1Published application
US 11,833,706 B2This patent

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