Constant acceleration hydrocutting system
AssigneeVanmark Equipment, LLC
InventorsThomas P. Mathues, Colter J. Young
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Abstract
An improvement to hydrocutting systems includes a curved shape for the acceleration and deceleration sections of the system. In the acceleration and deceleration tubes, the curvature of the sidewall is non-linear along its length, and the water flowing therein accelerates, positively or negatively, at a substantially constant rate. In an embodiment, there is a second curvature, which may be offset from the first curvature by about 90 degrees, that accelerates the water at a second, different substantially constant rate, in order to align the food product both lengthwise and rotationally to a desired orientation.
Claims12
An improved accelerating tube in a hydrocutting system that includes a liquid, a liquid pump, conduit through which the liquid is pumped and a blade interposed across a liquid flow path aligned with a longitudinal axis of the accelerating tube for receiving at least one food product that is disposed in the liquid, the accelerating tube having a liquid guiding sidewall with a reduction in diameter between an entry end and an exit end to accelerate the liquid as the liquid flows through the accelerating tube, the improvement comprising the liquid-guiding sidewall having a first longitudinally-curved surface against which the liquid flows that is reduced in diameter non-linearly, thereby causing liquid flowing therethrough to accelerate at a first substantially constant rate.
An accelerating tube for a hydrocutting system that includes a liquid, a liquid pump, conduit through which the liquid is pumped and a blade interposed across a liquid flow path aligned with a longitudinal axis of the accelerating tube for receiving at least one food product that is disposed in the liquid, the accelerating tube comprising a liquid guiding sidewall having a first longitudinally-curved surface against which the liquid flows, said sidewall extending from an entry end to an exit end, wherein the sidewall has a reduction in diameter that is non-linear and accelerates liquid flowing therethrough at a first substantially constant rate.
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