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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2017
Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.c.m.a. S.p.a., Bologna, IT;
Andrea Biondi, Bologna, IT;
Riccardo Ruggeri, Bologna, IT;
Ivanoe Bertuzzi, Casalecchio di Reno, IT;
Abstract
A feeding unit for feeding a food product for a machine for making filled pasta includes at least one feed duct having an outlet and an inlet; a sleeve fitted coaxially over the duct and rotatable relative thereto about an axis of rotation R in order to regulate the cross section of the inlet; an actuator including a stem inserted in the sleeve and movable between a first, retracted operating position and a second, extracted operating position to allow the food product to enter the feed duct and to push at least one single portion of food product out of the duct through the outlet; a second sleeve, fitted between the first sleeve and the stem, the stem sliding inside the second sleeve and the first sleeve rotating on the second sleeve.