Packing strips of material
AssigneeArmour and Company
InventorJames P. Smithers
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Abstract
A method of packing strips of material such as bacon by feeding a film over a rotating stepped roll, feeding strips or slices of the material onto the film over the steps of this roll, picking up the slices from the roll in shingled relationship with film interleaved between the slices, and then compacting the shingled strips by passing them from a conveyor driven at one speed to a conveyor driven at a slower speed. A machine is disclosed having mechanical and automatic controls for timing the respective functions in accordance with the operation of the slicer and for synchronizing the elements of the machine.
Claims15
In a method for packing strips of material the steps of rotating a roll in an angular direction such that its top surface moves forwardly, said roll having a step thereon, said step having a front side, a high point and a rear side, passing a film over said roll while said roll is in rotation whereby said film forms a cover over said step, passing a strip of material forwardly in a substantially horizontal direction toward an upper portion of said roll until said strip is caught by said high point of said step while covered by said film, whereby said strip is moved by rotation of said roll into place on said rear side of said step while covered by said film.
In a method of packing strips of material in which said strips have flat sides and in which film is passed over a rotating roll, the improvement comprising passing said strips horizontally with their flat sides substantially horizontal onto the film on an upper portion of said roll while said portion is ascending on one side of said roll, and removing said film with said strips thereon while said strips are descending on the other side of said roll while avoiding substantial turning of said strips and while said strips still have their flat sides substantially horizontal.
In a method for packing slices of bacon the steps of rotating a stepped roll in an angular direction such that its top steps move forwardly, each of said steps having a front side, a high point, and a rear side, passing a film over said roll while said roll is in rotation whereby said film forms a cover over said steps, passing a plurality of said slices of bacon forwardly in sequence in a substantially horizontal direction toward an upper portion of said roll until each of said slices is in turn caught by said high point of one of said steps and moved by rotation by said roll into place on the rear side of one of said steps while said side is covered by said film, and removing said film and said slices from said roll while said roll is still in rotation.
A method as set forth in claim12 in which when said slices are removed said fold is along a line rearward of the forward edge of the slice on each side of the fold.
In a method for packing strips of material, the steps of rotating a roll in an angular direction such that its top surface moves forwardly, said roll having a step thereon, said step having a front side, a high point, and a rear side, passing a film over said roll while said roll is in rotation whereby said film forms a cover over said step, placing said strip on the rear side of said step and lifting said film with said strip thereon from said rear side of said step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.