Dicing machines and methods of use

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9604379
APP PUB NO 20140345432A1
SERIAL NO

14285075

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Methods and machines for cutting solid and semisolid materials, for example, food products. The machine has a dicing unit that has a feed drum, circular cutter, and cross-cutter each individually rotatably mounted to a support structure by cantilevered shafts. The machine further has a knife for producing slices of a solid or semisolid material, circular knives on the circular cutter to cut the slices into strips, and cross-cut knives on the cross-cutter to dice the strips. The machine also has a stripper plate for removing the strips from the circular cutter, and an outboard support assembly for supporting and radially centering outboard ends of the shafts of the feed drum, circular cutter, and cross-cutter and for supporting and securing the stripper plate relative thereto.

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URSCHEL LABORATORIES INC1200 CUTTING EDGE DR CHESTERTON IN 46304

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Klockow, Scott Alan Kouts, US 14 54

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