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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1981
Filed:
May. 31, 1979
Larry Huston, Buffalo, MN (US);
Clifton H Morrison, St. Paul, MN (US);
Glenn Rasmussen, Champlin, MN (US);
Takuzo Tsuchiya, Minneapolis, MN (US);
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A plurality of frozen fish columns having a rectangular cross section are contained in a corresponding number of transversely aligned and laterally spaced tubes constituting a magazine. The lower ends of the columns rest on pushers which are slidable on a number of plastic anvils or blocks comprising part of a vertically adjustable table assembly. A single-edge blade is advanced and retracted at a 30.degree. angle through the lower ends of the frozen columns to sever portions therefrom having a thickness determined by the vertical adjustment of the table assembly. Pushers, which are synchronized with the blade movement, shove the severed portions from the cutting station beneath the lower ends of the tubes onto a conveyor. By controlling the speed of the conveyor the various severed portions, while still uniformly oriented, are transferred in an appropriately spaced end-to-end relationship to another location for processing.