Machines and methods for cutting products to produce reduced-size products therefrom

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10442102
APP PUB NO 20170232630A1
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15411172

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Machines and methods suitable for performing cutting operations on products to yield a reduced-size product, for example, slicing and strip-cutting elongate food products. Such a method includes simultaneously delivering products to annular-shaped cavities of a rotating impeller. The products are simultaneously delivered with a feed unit that has a feed chute extension that protrudes into an interior of the impeller. The feed chute extension defines feed chutes that are aligned with the annular-shaped cavities of the impeller and direct the products to circumferential series of pockets within the annular-shaped cavities. The products are held within the pockets by centrifugal force as the products are carried past a slicing knife to form a first longitudinal cut through each of the products during a rotation of the impeller and to produce therefrom a substantially longitudinally sliced product.

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URSCHEL LABORATORIES INC1200 CUTTING EDGE DRIVE CHESTERTON IN 46304

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Boylstein, Shawn Christopher Laporte, US 2 9
Fant, James A Chesterton, US 6 37
Jacko, Michael Scot Valparaiso, US 52 445
Martin, Mark Allen Kouts, US 13 55
Underwood, Nicholas Alan Valparaiso, US 3 16
Van, Buynder Luc Bellem, BE 3 10

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