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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1976
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1974
James L Balch, Madison, WI (US);
James E Anderson, Madison, WI (US);
Boleslaus J Sadeski, Madison, WI (US);
Oscar Mayer & Co., Inc., Madison, WI (US);
Abstract
A system for loading a continuously moving conveyor belt comprises a slicer for producing bacon strips from a bacon slab, a conveyor for conveying bacon strips from the slicer, and a transfer station for transferring bacon strips from a serial arrangement on the conveyor to a side-by-side arrangement of spaced transverse rows on the continuously moving conveyor belt. A novel control system is provided to coordinate the operation of the slicer and the transfer station to obtain a continuous and uniform loading of the conveyor belt and to avoid the production of partial or deformed bacon strips by the slicer. The loading system is particularly well adapted to loading unfried bacon strips onto the conveyor of a bacon frying oven.