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Apparatus for perforating slices of food product

US4216690A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 26, 1979
Grant dateAug 12, 1980
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 26, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T83/9314
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A foraminous upperwardly inclined conveyor belt, which normally carries slices of vegetable, such as potatoes from the washer to the cooker is straddled by a spiked roller on the bottom side and a grooved roller on the other for progressively puncturing the vegetable while carried on the conveyor.

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