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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2018
Frito-lay Trading Company Gmbh, Bern, GB;
Ahmed Khan, Leicester, GB;
Frito-Lay Trading Company GmbH, Bern, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus for cutting vegetable slices that includes a central impeller coaxially mounted with a cutting head for rotation about an axis within the cutting head for delivering vegetables radially outwardly from a center of the impeller toward the cutting head. A water jet spray device is mounted at the base of the impeller, aligned with the axis, and includes a raised mound having an outer wall surrounding an inner wall defining a central depression, the outer wall extending downwardly and outwardly from an annular rim between the central depression and the outer wall, and a plurality of substantially radially oriented channels serially provided around the raised mound, each channel extending outwardly from a channel inlet within the central depression to a channel outlet in the outer wall.