LINEAR FOOD MATERIAL-CUTTING AND SUPPLYING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: TANAKA HISAO, MARUOKA HIROYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.09.2009
• Subjects: CHEWING GUM; COCOA; COCOA PRODUCTS, e.g. CHOCOLATE; CONFECTIONERY; CONVEYING; CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING,CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; HAND CUTTING TOOLS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; ICE-CREAM; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; PREPARATION THEREOF; SEVERING; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; SUBSTITUTES FOR COCOA OR COCOA PRODUCTS; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a linear food material-cutting and supplying apparatus capable of surely and smoothly cutting a linear food material without preventing the movement of the linear food material. SOLUTION: This linear food material-cutting and supplying apparatus 10 is used for cutting halfway during conveyance and supplying linear food materials which are continuously produced, placed on a supply conveyor 15 and conveyed. The apparatus has a cutter 70 which moves along a conveyance line of the supply conveyor 15 at a speed almost the same as a moving speed of the supply conveyor 15. The cutter 70 has a pair of cutting blades 73 and 73 which perform an opening/closing operation, and the cutting blades 73 each have a recessed shape blade edge 75 and cut through slidingly contact each other while surrounding the outer periphery of the linear food material. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT