Slicing machine
AssigneeCashin Systems Corporation
InventorEdmund G. Dennis
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Abstract
The present device relates to a slicing machine for slicing bacon bellies continuously. The device is provided with a trim circuit which detects the front and rear ends of each belly and generates a trimming signal which triggers the trimming of said ends. Slice counters are provided which the number of slices to be cut from a belly before trimming can be preselected for either the front or the rear ends. The device is also provided with a control circuit which reverses the forward movement of a belly after slicing process is temporarily stopped so that both the last slice before the stoppage and the first slice sliced after the stoppage have a relatively even cross-section.
Claims11
A slicing machine for slicing bacon bellies continuously, each belly having a front end portion, a rear end portion and main body therebetween, said end portions having an end portion cross-sectional area, said end cross-sectional area being smaller than the cross-sectional area of the main body, said machine comprising:
- a platform;
- a slicing means positioned adjacent to said platform;
- feed means for advancing bellies disposed on said platform toward said slicing means for slicing;
- means for removing slices cut off by said slicing means at first and second speeds, said second speed being lower than said first speed;
- sensing means disposed at a preselected distance from said slicing means for detecting said belly ends and for generating sensing signals indicative of said belly ends;
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- control means for operating said means for removing slices cut from said end portions at said first speed, and for removing slices cut from the main body at said second speed in response to said sensing signals to separate slices cut from the end portions from slices cut from the main body.
A method of processing continuously bacon bellies, each having a front end portion, a rear end portion and a main body therebetween, said end portions having a cross-sectional area smaller than the crosssectional area of the main body comprising:
- advancing the bellies toward a slicing zone;
- sensing the front end portion of each belly;
- in response to said sensing of said front end portion, slicing a first number of end slices from said front end portion;
- removing said first end slices;
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- slicing the main body slices from the main body;
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- removing said main body slices at a different rate than said first end slices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.