J. E. Grote Company, Inc.

J. E. Grote Pepp-a-Matic Co.

Thomas A Hochanadel

Thomas L Lease

Michael H Sapp

Robert J McInerney

A unitary tray and blade guide frame including longitudinal members extending from rigid, integral attachment with a back tray. An end frame member transversely, rigidly mounts to the longitudinal frame members and the back tray. A blade guide mounts to the back tray, with its upper surface flush with the upper surface of the back tray. A thickness tray slidably mounts in slots formed in the longitudinal frame members. An adjustment mechanism adjusts the position of the thickness tray. A food product workpiece extends downwardly from a reciprocatably displaceable workpiece retaining carriage, and rests on the upper surface of the thickness tray. The carriage advances the workpiece into a blade, which removes a slice from the workpiece. The lower surface of the remaining workpiece slides against the upper surface of the blade guide and the back tray. A coupling for drivingly linking a rotary motor driveshaft with a driven pulley, including a pair of feet extending perpendicularly from, and on opposite sides of, the driveshaft. The feet extend into a gap between a pair of fingers extending perpendicularly from the face of the pulley. The fingers are equidistantly spaced on opposite sides of the axis of rotation of the pulley. Elastic bushings are mounted to the feet, and rollers are rotatably mounted to the fingers. Rotation of the driveshaft abuts the feet against the fingers, exerting a force on the fingers which rotatingly drives the pulley.

Unitary tray and blade guide mount for a food processing machine

A stacking conveyor is provided for receiving thin product slices moving along a horizontal path and placing a plurality of slices in stacks of predetermined configuration. One embodiment of the stacking conveyor includes a conveyor belt carried on a fixed position frame and is oscillated to receive a predetermined number of slices forming a stack and then revolved to discharge the formed stack. A second embodiment of the stacking conveyor includes a conveyor belt carried on a movable frame that is reciprocated to receive a slice while moving in one direction and then discharging the slice while moving in the opposite direction. Each of the two embodiments is adapted to be mechanically coupled with an apparatus forming the slices to either revolve the conveyor belt or to displace the conveyor belt at the same speed as the slice being received.

Stacking conveyor for product slicing machine

A pendulum-type product slicing machine is provided wherein the product is carried on a support frame mounted for swinging movement in an arc with respect to a slicing blade. The slicing blade is an endless band which is supported in an inclined plane such that the lower end of the product carrier may traverse the lower run of the blade for complete severing of the product carried thereby. Mechanisms are provided for control of the thickness of the slices and for automatic operation of the carrier.

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Pickerington, OH, United States of America

Thomas A Hochanadel