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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 1985
Filed:
Aug. 26, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Martin J Matzinger, Madison, WI (US);
Daniel L Orloff, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation, Madison, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83 27 ; 83 42 ; 83104 ; 83165 ; 83277 ; 83281 ; 83409 ; 83417 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method are provided for feeding elongated products, especially food products having generally square cross-sections. Included is a transporting assembly that has a surface for receiving the products and moving them in a direction generally transverse to their longitudinal axes. An escapement assembly is provided near the downstream end of the transporting assembly in order to move the products one at a time to a product feed assembly. Typically, the product feed assembly pushes the product to a slicing device to thereby provide stacks of sliced product.