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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2003
Richard B. Jensen, Caldwell, ID (US);
David B. Walker, Meridian, ID (US);
Allen J. Neel, Nampa, ID (US);
Heriberto Banda, Heyburn, ID (US);
Richard B. Jensen, Caldwell, ID (US);
David B. Walker, Meridian, ID (US);
Allen J. Neel, Nampa, ID (US);
Heriberto Banda, Heyburn, ID (US);
J. R. Simplot Company, Boise, ID (US);
Abstract
A plug prevention device is provided in a slicing machine having a rotary impeller for carrying products such as potatoes or the like into engagement with cutting knives to form lattice cut slices, wherein the plug prevention device prevents the products from lodging within an upwardly open inlet throat of the impeller. The plug prevention device comprises an elongated stationary rod having one end projecting into the impeller throat at a position substantially off-axis relative to an axis of impeller rotation. Products entering the impeller and tending to lodge by centrifugal action against an internal wall of the impeller throat will strike the rod, causing such products to separate from wall of the impeller throat and fall further into the impeller for slice processing.