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US 4,960,021 AGranted
Meat slicer
OwnerDonald R. Carney, Daniel Fisherinventors
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Abstract
An apparatus for slicing meat into strips comprises a conveyor for transporting the meat beneath an array of spaced rotary cutting blades, which float upon their driveshaft, their spacing being maintained only by a stack of pressure wheels mounted on a freewheeling shaft parallel to the driveshaft. A free-floating wedge is confined between the conveyor surface, the cutter blades, and the pressure wheels, for separating the meat from the conveyor.
Claims7
An apparatus for cutting meat into strips, comprising
- a frame,
- a conveyor belt, having an upper surface for moving meat cuts placed thereon,
- a driveshaft mounted for rotation on said frame, parallel to and above said conveyor belt surface,
- a plurality of circular cutter blades mounted at intervals along said driveshaft, said blades having peripheries spaced slightly above said belt surface,
- a second, rotatable shaft supported by said frame and extending parallel to the driveshaft,
- a plurality of pressure wheels mounted on said shaft, said pressure wheels being of such diameter as to extend slightly between adjacent of said cutter blades, so as to maintain spacing between the blades,
- said belt surface, said cutter blades, and said pressure wheels defining a volume therebetween, and
- a wedge element confined within said volume, said element being free to float within said volume, said wedge having a leading edge for separating meat from the conveyor surface.
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