Omori Machinery Co., Ltd

Toshiyuki Yokokawa

A loaf slicing machine includes a cutting blade arranged to rotate about a center axis thereof while moving around an orbital axis to thereby cut the loaf cyclically, a feed member for intermittently advancing the loaf toward the cutting blade and extending perpendicularly to the cutting blade, and a guide member disposed between the feed member and a path of the cutting blade for guiding the loaf. In order to hold the loaf, an abutment plate is provided which has a surface spaced from the edge of the cutting blade toward a direction of advance of the loaf for permitting the end of the loaf to abut on that surface during each cutting cycle and of which rotational center is aligned with the orbital axis, the abutment plate being arranged to rotate sychronously with the cutting blade. An opening is formed through the abutment plate at a position adjacent the cutting blade for permitting slices as cut to be transferred through the opening.

Loaf slicing machine

An apparatus is provided for stacking sliced products from a slicing machine of the type in which a loaf is fed into a cutting blade to be cyclically sliced. The apparatus comprises a first stack receiver and a second stack receiver each comprising a pair of receiving plates and operable between a closed position where the receiving plates are adjacent each other for accumulating the slices and an open position where the receiving plates are spaced from each other for discharging the slices. The stack receivers are moved in the vertical direction such that one of them is in the raised position when the other of them is in the lowered position. The stack receivers are closed at the raised position and opened at the lowered position. The slices can be discharged from the stack receiver with maintaining an aligned condition.

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Tokyo, Japan

Toshiyuki Yokokawa