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US 2008/0148966 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for slicing foodstuffs
AssigneeChippery Potato Chip Factory, Inc.
InventorsChristopher A. Smith, Raymond Kenneth Woodey
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for slicing of foodstuffs is provided that has a rotatable disc with a radial slot, a knife blade projecting above the rotatable disc, an angled chute for conveying foodstuffs, and an orifice between the chute and the rotatable disc. The orifice has a shape that decreases in width in the direction of rotation of the rotatable disc.
Claims8
A slicer for slicing of foodstuffs comprising:
- a knife blade, adapted to slice foodstuffs, that rotates at an orifice at an end of a chute for conveying foodstuffs to said knife blade;
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- an automatic controller for correlating the rate of production of sliced foodstuffs with temperature, so that said controller automatically causes said knife blade to be stationary below a temperature value, and said controller automatically increases the rate of production of sliced foodstuffs as the temperature is increased above said temperature value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.