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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasunori Tashiro, Utsunomiya, JP;
Assignee:
Rheon Automatic Machinery Co., Ltd., Tochigi-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A21C / ; A21C / ; A21C / ; A21D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
994502 ; 994501 ; 994506 ; 994507 ; 425132 ; 425142 ; 425287 ; 425308 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for cutting and shaping spherical products, such as filled dumplings, including a plurality of shutter members, each shutter member having first and second adjacent sliding surfaces and an elongated hole, a connecting member for slidably connecting adjacent shutters, and shafts equidistantly disposed on an imaginary circle which are received in the elonagated holes for slidably rotating the shutter members to thereby open and close a central opening.