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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2007
Michael S. Jacko, Chesterton, IN (US);
Daniel Wade King, Valparaiso, IN (US);
Rick Wendell Bajema, Plano, TX (US);
Annette Stiers Jones, Dallas, TX (US);
David Ray Warren, Plano, TX (US);
Michael S. Jacko, Chesterton, IN (US);
Daniel Wade King, Valparaiso, IN (US);
Rick Wendell Bajema, Plano, TX (US);
Annette Stiers Jones, Dallas, TX (US);
David Ray Warren, Plano, TX (US);
Urschel Laboratories, Inc., Valparaiso, IN (US);
Frito-Lay North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
A cutting apparatus having an annular-shaped cutting head and an impeller assembly coaxially mounted for rotation within the cutting head to deliver food products radially outward toward the cutting head. The cutting head has at least one knife extending radially inward toward the impeller assembly. The impeller assembly is equipped with paddles, each having a radially outer extremity adjacent the impeller assembly, a radially inner extremity, and a face therebetween facing the rotational direction of the impeller assembly. According to preferred aspects of the invention, removable posts radially extend from the radially outer extremity of each paddle, and/or the face of each paddle has grooves transverse to a radial of the impeller assembly.