Abstract

A side-loading pendulum slicer for slicing short and/or oddly-shaped food products. The pendulum slicer has an aperture in the upstream side of the product holder through which food products are injected. A loading conveyor holds large numbers of food products that are sequentially and individually loaded onto an injecting conveyor that injects the food products through the aperture and into the product holder. A weight that is raised above the aperture is lowered onto the food product to compress the food product against a thickness tray while the product holder reciprocates through a blade adjacent the thickness tray. Slices are removed from the food product and conveyed away for use.

IPC Classes  ?

• B26D 7/06 - Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
• B26D 7/32 - Means for performing other operations combined with cutting for conveying or stacking cut product

Abstract

A clamping mechanism for a food slicing machine having a product holder that is driven cyclically through a food slicing blade along an arcuate or linear path. The clamping mechanism is driven by the drive means that drives the product holder, thereby assuring the timing of the clamping during the cutting portion of the stroke. A drive rod extends from the drive means, which can be a driveshaft, and extends to a plate that is pivotably mounted to the product holder. The plate pushes plungers through the sidewall of the holder to seat against and clamp the food product against the sidewall of the holder.

IPC Classes  ?

• B26D 11/00 - Combinations of several similar cutting apparatus
• B26D 7/06 - Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
• B26D 5/20 - Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting with interrelated action between the cutting member and work feed
• B27B 5/18 - Saw benches with feedable circular saw blade, e.g. arranged on a carriage
• B23D 19/00 - Shearing machines or shearing devices cutting by rotary discs
• B23D 45/00 - Sawing machines or sawing devices with circular saw blades or with friction saw discs

Abstract

A food slicing machine using a linear servo motor to reciprocate a carriage holding food products through a path that includes a slicing blade. The slicing apparatus is a modular apparatus that can be mounted to and removed from slicing machines as a unit without the need for disassembly of the components of the slicing apparatus. An adjustment mechanism for the blade guide uses two shafts that extend from a bearing plate into a finger that is mounted to the blade guide. The lower shaft has a cam nut that displaces the finger about the upper shaft to bend the blade guide. There is also an adjustment mechanism for the idler pulley of the band blade apparatus.

IPC Classes  ?

• B23D 53/00 - Machines or devices for sawing with strap saw blades which are effectively endless in use, e.g. for contour cutting
• B23B 13/08 - Arrangements for reducing vibrations in feeding-passages or for damping noise