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US 2011/0162498 A1Published application
Progammable slicer with powered food carriage
OwnerSamuel A. Rummel, Guangshan Zhu +1inventors
InventorsSamuel A. Rummel, Guangshan Zhu, Shahram Shariff
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Abstract
A slicer for use in slicing a food products includes a slicer body. A slicer knife is mounted to the slicer body. A linear motor may be provided to move a food product support carriage. A slicer may also include stroke length setting adjustment features.
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A food product slicer, comprising:
- a slicer body;
- a slicer knife mounted for rotation relative to the slicer body, the knife having a peripheral cutting edge;
- a food product support carriage mounted for movement back and forth past the slicer knife;
- an adjustable gauge plate for varying slice thickness;
- a carriage drive for effecting automated movement of the carriage back and forth past the slicer knife, the carriage drive comprising a linear motor having a forcer and a stator each having at least one magnetic field generator, the forcer movable along a linear path relative to the stator, the forcer mechanically linked with the carriage to effect automated movement thereof.
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A food product slicer including a variable stroke length setting feature, the food product slicer comprising:
- a slicer body;
- a slicer knife mounted for rotation relative to the slicer body, the knife having a peripheral cutting edge;
- a food product support carriage mounted for movement back and forth past the slicer knife along a carriage movement path;
- an adjustable gauge plate for varying slice thickness;
- a drive for automatically driving the carriage back and forth past the slicer knife for automatic food product slicing operations;
- an encoder arrangement for providing an output for tracking position of the carriage along the carriage movement path;
- a control connected with the drive and the encoder arrangement, the control including memory for storing both a carriage stroke start position and a carriage stroke end position, enabling carriage stroke length to be set by adjusting the stored carriage stroke start position and/or the stored carriage stroke end position.
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A food product slicer including a variable stroke length setting feature, the food product slicer comprising:
- a slicer body;
- a slicer knife mounted for rotation relative to the slicer body, the knife having a peripheral cutting edge;
- a food product support carriage mounted for movement back and forth past the slicer knife along a carriage movement path;
- a drive for automatically driving the carriage back and forth past the slicer knife for automatic food product slicing operations;
- an encoder arrangement for providing an output for tracking position of the carriage along the carriage movement path;
- a control connected with the drive and the encoder arrangement, the control including memory for storing a carriage stroke start position, the control automatically identifying and storing the carriage stroke start position based upon automatically identifying location when the food product is positioned proximate to the peripheral cutting edge of the of the slicer knife.
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