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US 3,974,725 AGranted
High volume cutter for elongate food products
AssigneeA. Duda & Sons, Inc.
InventorVernie A. Boots
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AssigneeA. Duda & Sons, Inc.
InventorVernie A. Boots
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A machine for cutting or slicing celery, carrots, or other elongate vegetables into pieces of selected size, accomplished on a rapid and highly economical basis. My machine utilizes a plurality of endless, moving belts, with one of the belts being arranged to receive vegetables deposited thereon, and to transport same to a location adjacent what may be regarded as the terminus of the belt. Mean such as other moving belts are utilized for gradually applying pressure to the vegetables during their travel along the length of the vegetable-supporting belt, thus to accomplish a compression of such vegetables into a tightly compacted mass. High speed cutter means operative adjacent the terminus serve to cut the vegetables into small pieces, with the size of the pieces being determined by the speed of the cutter relative to the velocity of the belts.
A machine for cutting up elongate vegetables on a rapid, high volume basis comprising a first endless moving belt of substantial length, at a first location on which belt, vegetables to be cut or sliced can be deposited for transport to a second location, second and third endless moving belts of similar length disposed adjacent the sides of said first belt and serving to keep vegetables supported by said first mentioned belt from falling off the edges thereof, said second and third belts being disposed in a converging relationship in the direction of movement, so as to narrow the width of the space in which vegetables residing on said first belt can be accommodated, an upper endless moving belt extending over at least part of the length of said first belt and serving with said second and third belts to compress the vegetables on said first belt into a closely packed mass by the time the second location has been reached, and a rapidly rotating cutter blade means operative adjacent said second location for acting upon and slicing the vegetables compressed by said belt array.
A device for cutting up compressible items at a high volume rate into pieces of a desired size, comprising a plurality of endless moving belts disposed in a cooperative and convergent relationship, which belts are arranged to bring about compression of such items from essentially orthogonal directions, one of said moving belts being arranged to receive quantities of such items at a first location, to support said items and to transport same to a second location, a second of said belts being disposed above said one belt and applying downward force during belt movement such that the items are compressed between the pair of belts, additional compression means for bringing about compression in a direction essentially orthogonal to the direction of compression between said first and second belts, said additional compression means including a third moving belt, the efforts of the several belts thereby causing the compressible items to become a highly compacted mass as a result of compression from the two essentially orthogonal directions, and high capacity rotary cutter means operatively disposed adjacent said second location, said cutter means being operative in a plane substantially perpendicular to the direction of motion of said first belt, said cutter means acting upon and cutting up the compressible items into pieces of small size.
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