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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1998
Zbigniew S Borkiewicz, Sun Prairie, WI (US);
Tod W Heleniak, Green Bay, WI (US);
Larry E Daane, Horicon, WI (US);
Kraft Foods, Inc., Northfield, IL (US);
Abstract
The assembly and method are disclosed for the mechanical automated loading of cut cucumbers into jars. The cucumbers are sized in length and delivered to one or more cutter and loader stations where they are cut into slices or the like, and the slices are divided between a pair of pivot chutes. The pivot chutes are pivoted away from each other and into alignment respectively with a pair of jar chutes, the latter of which extend into the openings of the jars to be loaded. The cut cucumbers are delivered through the jar chutes at a substantial angle to both the plane of the opening of the jar and the axis of the jar, and toward the outer wall of the jars against which they are deposited. As each load is deposited into a jar, the jar is rotationally indexed in readiness for the next load, and the previously deposited loads are held against the outer wall of the jar by a mandrel which extends into the jar during the loading operation.