Divider assembly
AssigneeDutchess Bakers' Machinery Company, Inc.
InventorsDavid E. Beatty, Jeffery A. Nyquist, Kenneth Ropp
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Abstract
A divider assembly for removable attachment to a dividing and rounding machine, the assembly including a divider blade formed into a circular geometric pattern, with relatively movable plugs fitted into the openings of the geometric pattern, the blade being affixed to a divider plate having openings and the plugs projecting through the openings. The top ends of the plugs are fitted through a plug plate and have reduced diameter shanks for engagement into keyhole-shaped openings in a lock plate. Two knobs are threadable into the respective plates to hold the entire assembly together.
Claims10
A divider assembly for removable attachment to a dividing and rounding machine, comprising:
- a) a divider blade having a plurality of segments formed into a circular geometric pattern with respective open areas therebetween;
- b) a circular divider plate affixed to said divider blade, said divider plate having a neck projecting from its center, with means for attachment to said dividing and rounding machine, said divider plate further having openings therethrough generally aligned with said divider blade open areas;
- c) a plurality of plugs shaped to fit within the respective open areas in said divider blade, each of said plugs having a stem affixed thereto, each stem having an upper end having a groove therein, whereby said stem upper ends project through said divider plate openings;
- d) a plug plate overlaying said divider plate, said plug plate having a central opening for the passage of said divider plate neck, said plug plate further having a plurality of openings respectively alignable with said plurality of stems, whereby said stem upper end grooves project above said plug plate;
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- e) a lock plate overlaying said plug plate, said lock plate having a plurality of keyhole-shaped openings therethrough respectively alignable with the upper ends of said stems, whereby the lock plate is slidably engageable with the respective grooves in the upper ends of said stems.
A divider assembly for removable attachment to a dividing and rounding machine, comprising:
- a) a divider blade having a plurality of blade segments arranged in a geometric pattern having open areas therebetween;
- b) a plurality of plugs respectively shaped to fit within said open areas, each of said plugs having a stem affixed thereto at a first stem end, and having a second stem end with a circumferential groove proximate said second end and a circumferential shoulder adjacent said groove;
- c) a divider plate affixed to said divider blade, said divider plate having a plurality of openings therethrough for receiving said stems;
- d) a plug plate overlaying said divider plate, said plug plate having a plurality of openings therethrough for receiving said circumferential shoulders of said stems;
- e) a lock plate overlaying said plug plate, said lock plate having a plurality of openings therethrough for receiving said stem ends, each of said openings having a reduced size portion for engaging said circumferential grooves;
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- f) a cover plate overlaying said lock plate, said cover plate having means for attachment to said plug plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.