Methods and equipment for cutting food products
AssigneeUrschel Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Wade King, Michael Scot Jacko, Thomas R. Mahaffey, II
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Abstract
Methods and equipment for producing shaped food products having large amplitudes, for example, sliced, shredded, and/or strip-cut food products. The methods and equipment utilize a cutting apparatus having at least two sequential knives at different radial positions in reference to radial distances of the sequential knives in radial directions of the cutting apparatus. Each sequential knife has a corrugated shape comprising peaks and valleys, and the sequential knives are arranged to be in phase or out of phase alignment with each other.
Claims10
A method of producing shaped food products, the method comprising:
- providing a cutting apparatus comprising at least two sequential knives having different radial positions in reference to radial distances of the sequential knives in radial directions of the cutting apparatus, each of the sequential knives having a corrugated shape comprising flat peaks and/or flat valleys;
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- operating the cutting apparatus to produce a large-amplitude food product having a cross-sectional shape comprising at least one flat peak and/or at least one flat valley on opposite sides of the food product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.