AN APPARATUS FOR STACKING, SINGULATING, AND DISPENSING PLIABLE FOOD PRODUCTS AND METHODS THEREFOR

An apparatus for handling food products comprising: an alignment trough disposed at an incline for holding a stack of the food products, the stack defining a bottom food product in the stack; and a reciprocating separation device disposed and configured to advance to temporarily fix the bottom food...

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Main Authors ADLER, SCOTT A, HELENIAK, TOD W, RUSCH, GARY S, ADAMSKI, BRIAN, WIERSCHKE, LARRY D, MALENKE, MARK E
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
Published 11.05.2010
Subjects
CONVEYING
HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGINGARTICLES OR MATERIALS
PACKING
PERFORMING OPERATIONS
PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS
STORING
TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING
TRANSPORTING
UNPACKING
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Summary:An apparatus for handling food products comprising: an alignment trough disposed at an incline for holding a stack of the food products, the stack defining a bottom food product in the stack; and a reciprocating separation device disposed and configured to advance to temporarily fix the bottom food product to the separation device, and retract to pull the bottom food product from a remainder of the stack, wherein the separation device is temporarily fixed to the bottom food product by a partial vacuum.
Bibliography:Application Number: CA20092859118