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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
May. 28, 2015
Frito-lay Trading Company Gmbh, Berne, CH;
Ahmed Nadim Khan, Staffordshire, GB;
Neal Lingard, Leicester, GB;
Frito-Lay Trading Company GmbH, Berne, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus for cutting potato slices, the apparatus comprising an annular-shaped cutting head and a central impeller coaxially mounted for rotation within the cutting head for delivering potatoes radially outwardly toward the cutting head, a plurality of knives serially mounted annularly around the cutting head, and a plurality of orientation elements serially and annularly mounted within the impeller to define a plurality of cutting zones located around the impeller, each cutting zone being between adjacent orientation elements, wherein radially inner parts of adjacent orientation elements are separated in circumferential direction to define between adjacent orientation elements a throat for passage therethrough of a potato in a radially outward direction into the respective cutting zone toward the cutting head, wherein the throat has a width of from 70 to 140 mm.