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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2005
Arthur William Vogeley, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Robert L. Bottemiller, Bellevue, WA (US);
George Blaine, Lake Stevens, WA (US);
Arthur William Vogeley, Jr., Seattle, WA (US);
Robert L. Bottemiller, Bellevue, WA (US);
George Blaine, Lake Stevens, WA (US);
John Bean Technologies Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system and method for determining how food products might be portioned includes a scanner for scanning the food product and then using a computer to analyze the scanning data to develop a volume distribution of the food product. The computer operating scanning software carries out modeling to determine potential sets of end products achievable from the initial work product, taking into consideration the possibility of adjusting the thickness of the food product, either before or after cutting of the food product occurs. The computer evaluates the potential yield provided by the potential sets of end products and then one of the potential sets of end products is selected. Thereafter, the present system or a further portioning system is used to cut and optionally adjust the thickness of the food product, either before or after the cutting occurs, thereby to achieve the selected end product set.