Sheeter with removeable cutting roller sleeve
AssigneeJ.C. Ford Company
InventorsScott D. Ruhe, Steven King, Daniel Ruhe, Paul Winocur, Mike Frechette
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Abstract
A sheeter can include a cutting roller having a driveshaft and a removeable a cutting sleeve. The removeable cutting sleeve can simplify the process for replacing the cutting surface of a cutting roller. Additionally, the sheeter can include a mounting arrangement that supports the driveshaft of the cutting roller in a cantilevered manner, and an access portion allowing the removal sleeves to be pulled off of the driveshaft without removing the driveshaft from the sheeter.
Claims21
-54. (canceled)
A dough sheeting device comprising:
- a support frame having a first side member and a second side member, the second side member comprising a cutting roller access aperture;
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- a cutting roller assembly having an outer cutting surface and supported by the support frame to rotate relative to the support frame, the cutting roller assembly comprising:
- a drive shaft rotatably supported by the support frame and having a first end, a second end, and a cutting sleeve support surface disposed between the first end and the second end;
- a first and a second removable cutting sleeve configured to slide over the cutting sleeve support surface of the drive shaft, each of the first and second removable cutting sleeves having first and second axial ends and an outer cutting surface portion defining at least a portion of the outer cutting surface of the cutting roller assembly, the first removable cutting sleeve having a first sleeve engagement portion disposed on the first axial end and configured to receive or transmit torque;
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- a first torque transfer member fixed to the drive shaft and comprising a torque engagement portion engaged with the first sleeve engagement portion of the first removable cutting sleeve.
A cutting roller assembly for a dough sheeting device, the cutting roller assembly comprising:
- a drive shaft having a first end, a second end, and a cutting sleeve support surface disposed between the first end and the second end;
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- a first removable cutting sleeve configured to slide over the cutting sleeve support surface of the drive shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.