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US 4,129,053 AGranted
Bulk product slicing system
AssigneeControl Process, Incorporated
InventorDavid P. Kent
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Abstract
The motor for the conveyor which removes accumulations of sliced product is controlled in a cycle which includes gradual acceleration and deceleration and higher peak speed.
Claims16
In a bulk product slicing equipment, which includes means for intermittently advancing the bulk product into a rotating slicing blade and conveyor means for intermittently removing accumulations of sliced product from the vicinity of the blade, the conveyor means including a conveyor drive motor which is controllably actuatable between a low and a high speed, the improvement which comprises:
- means for controlling the acceleration of the motor from the low to the high speed and the deceleration from the high to the low speed so that the accumulations are not deformed during this removal from the blade vicinity,
- said controlling means being adjustable separately from any other controls for the conveyor drive motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.