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

• Main Authors: ADLER, SCOTT A, HELENIAK, TOD W, RUSCH, GARY S, ADAMSKI, BRIAN, WIERSCHKE, LARRY D, MALENKE, MARK E
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; 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

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...