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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. 19, 1991
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dennis G Flisram, Plainfield, WI (US);
Assignee:
Oscar Mayer Foods Corporation, Madison, WI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B26D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
83356003 ; 83 42 ; 83596 ; 83665 ; 83675 ; 241292001 ;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for slicing food product sticks such as loaves or chubs or the like of meat and cheese. A blade assembly is utilized which includes a plurality of, typically two, blade members, each of which has a curved cutting surface that terminates at a trailing tip. A non-slicing mode is achieved by having the blade assembly exhibit a substantial gap between the trailing tip of one blade member and the curved cutting surface leading edge of another blade member. The apparatus is particularly well suited for enhancing the throughput of a food processing line and for improving the quality of sliced products processed therethrough.