Method and machine for slicing materials
AssigneeArmour and Company
InventorLawrence M. Skidmore
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Abstract
Drafts of preselected weight are sliced into a preselected number of slices by passing the material to be sliced through a curtain of radiation to measure the density of the material, and this measurement is used to calculate the length of each draft, which measurement is stored and subsequently read out to control the operation of a stepping hydroelectric motor which pushes the material through a cutting station at the proper speed.
Claims6
In a slicing machine which includes a slicing blade, a path along which material to be sliced may be moved toward said blade, radiation means positioned to direct gamma particles toward said material as it moves along said path whereby some of the gamma particles so directed are absorbed in said material and some pass through said material, the improvement comprising means for detecting individual particles which pass through said material and for converting energy of said particles which are so detected into an electrical signal in which the energy from each particle so detected is represented as an electrical pulse, means for digitally counting said pulses as said material moves along said path and means responsive to the count of said pulses for advancing said material along said path and toward said blade at a speed which is inversely proportional to the number of pulses so counted.
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