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US 5,820,041 AGranted
Food cutting apparatus
AssigneeMaschinenfabrik Dornhan GmbH
InventorsMichael Moessmer, Eberhard Haack
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Abstract
A suspension arrangement for rotatable feed worms of food cutting apparatus and knives mounted thereon for rotation thereby. The feed worms are provided with coaxially extending bearing pins which are mounted for resiliently biased movement in a coaxial recess of the worms and which are journaled in bearings provided in a cutting disk. Releasable means are provided for moving the cutting disk relative to the bearing pin and knife mounted thereon.
Claims14
A food cutting apparatus, comprising:
- working worm means mounted in a given plane for rotation about a first axis;
- feed worm means mounted in said plane for rotation about a second axis and provided with coaxial recess means at an output end of said feed worm means for receiving bearing pin means for resilient sliding movement relative thereto;
- change-over means between said output end of said feed worm means and a receiving section of said working worm means;
- substantially non-rotating cutting disk means comprising substantially planar circular cutting surface means having a plurality of openings therein and disposed in a second plane intersecting said given plane and provided with bearing means for rotatably receiving said bearing pin means;
- rotary knife means mounted on said bearing pin means for coaxial rotation with said feed worm means in engagement with said cutting surface means;
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- means for biasing said rotary knife means against said cutting surface means.
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