Systems and methods for dispensing, slicing, buttering, and toasting bread

US10086525B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Creator, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Aaron Engel-Hall · San Francisco, US
• Alexandros Vardakostas · San Francisco, US
• John Lawrence McDonald · Abilene, US
• Matthew Robert Williams · Carp, CA
• Steven Frehn · San Francisco, US
• Thomas W. Hanson · Englewood, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2015
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2018
• Expiry date: May 31, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B26D7/34
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

One variation of a method for slicing a type of whole bread buns includes: retracting a cutting block along a chute into a load position; dispensing a whole bread bun into the chute between the cutting block and a blade extending across the chute; advancing the cutting block along the chute toward the blade; detecting contact between the cutting block and the blade at a contact position; at a first time, advancing the cutting block into a pierce position offset from the contact position toward the blade by a pierce distance less than a common width of the type of whole bread buns; and, at a second time succeeding the first time by a pierce duration, advancing the cutting block from the pierce position into a slice position adjacent the blade to drive the whole bread bun fully through the blade.