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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7340835 | Hot dog slicer A housing with at least one elongate chamber for a hot dog, a series of transverse blades for slicing the hot dog laterally into a number of disc sections, and at least one longitudinal blade for slicing the hot dog lengthwise, for example into quarters. The housing... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7146896 | Lemon-wedge cutter for restaurants and bars A cutting device hygienically cuts a lemon into wedges with a crosscut for hanging the wedges on glasses as served with beverages, such as ice-tea, or cocktails in restaurants or bars. Simple mechanism: the cam mechanism and the gear-rack assembly are driven by two ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6979153 | Deep-grooving insert having stepped cutting edge A deep-grooving chip-forming cutting insert includes a rear mounting portion, a front cutting portion, and a pair of side walls, each side wall extending along the front and rear portions. The front cutting portion includes a front end surface, a top surface, and a ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6308756 | Dual alternating transverse feeding mechanism for lumber edgers A lumber feeding mechanism for feeding lumber pieces laterally on a supply conveyor after scanning them with a light scanner to determine a reference axis for the optimum yield of boards. The lumber pieces are fed by dogs from a start position to a feed p... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6145427 | Apparatus and method for cutting bagels An apparatus for slicing a food product includes a housing having a food product inlet and a food product outlet and a food product path defined therebetween. A reciprocating cutter is positioned within the housing along the food product path between the ... | 11/14/2000 |
| 5191820 | Feed drive for a cutting machine for cutting foods A feed drive for a cutting machine for cutting foods consists of a claw which penetrates into the product at the rear face of the product to be sliced whereby the claw is driven intermittently or continuously in the direction of feed, and guides the produ... | 03/09/1993 |
| 4856398 | Countertop bread slicer with manually actuated cradle The specification discloses a countertop bread slicer having a horizontal blade assembly, a cradle for carrying a loaf upwardly through the assembly, and a unique cradle-transportation mechanism. The mechanism includes a gear linkage and a cradle-support ... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4697487 | Adjustable cable driven carriage system and method An end-dogging log carriage system has two narrow, carriage sections, supportably guided on an elongated track, interconnected by a drive cable and a clamping cable. Both cables are wrapped around a spooling drum mounted on one of the carriage sections in... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4646602 | Cheese cutter A cheese cutter for reducing a block of cheese by cutting the block in three perpendicular directions, comprising a frame, a carriage mounted and moveable linearly within the frame, low adherence, chemically inert cheese support members mounted on such ca... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4434692 | Grid-type bread-slicing machine A bread slicing machine comprises a grid (20) of vertically set blades (22) which are reciprocated longitudinally by an oscillator (29) driven by an electric motor (M2). Bread to be sliced is fed to the grid (20) by a horizontally reciprocable table (13) ... | 03/06/1984 |
| 4392520 | Log building construction The invention relates to a machine for end notching logs and to a method for end notching logs so that they can be incorporated into an interlocking corner configuration in a log cabin building. The corner construction is of the 1/2 dovetail configuration... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4363251 | Method and apparatus for cutting bread A method and apparatus for cutting bread is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor which conveys bread through a positioner to a circular, vertically disposed, rotatably mounted cutting blade. The positioner positions the bread with respect to the c... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4317398 | Sawmill apparatus having cant supporting means A sawmill apparatus includes first and second carriages for supporting first and second logging dogs therebeneath, with the second carriage being movable upon the first whereby to engage the ends of a log between the dogs. The carriages support the dogs a... | 03/02/1982 |
| 4304517 | Chaff ejection device A device for ejecting radar chaff comprising a magazine having a number of tubular cells in which chaff bundles are displaced towards an ejection end of the cell. The displacement of the chaff bundles is obtained by means of a plunger device which is long... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4271736 | Sawmill apparatus with vertically movable logging dogs A sawmill apparatus includes first and second carriages for supporting first and second logging dogs therebeneath, with the second carriage being movable upon the first whereby to engage the ends of a log between the dogs. The carriages support the dogs a... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4266456 | Drive mechanism for the reciprocating meat supporting carriage of a meat slicing machine A drive mechanism for the reciprocating meat supporting carriage of a meat slicing machine wherein the carriage supports the meat product to be sliced and moves the meat product relative to a power driven knife, and which includes an endless belt trained ... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4250937 | Sawmill log handling method A log is moved forwardly in a longitudinal path through a saw while engaged between a pusher dog and a holdback dog. The dogs are supported respectively by a pair of endless carriers which are parallel and adjacent to each other on one side of the log pat... | 02/17/1981 |
| 4238983 | Machine for making wood stakes Disclosed is a machine for manufacturing wood stakes from boards, preferably from lengths of 2×4's or 2×6's. The machine is adjustable to provide stakes of virtually any length. The machine consists of two stations, the first station comprising a recipr... | 12/16/1980 |
| 4083280 | Apparatus for treating fruits and vegetables Disclosed is an apparatus for the preparation of food such as slicing, cutting, and squeezing of fruits and vegetables comprising a pressure piece, a receiving element, a toothed wheel assembly having a control lever and two racks mounted in a housing hav... | 04/11/1978 |
| 4072075 | Cake cutter Apparatus for cutting a circular cake into a number of equal, segmental pieces consists of a series of superposed horizontal band cutters arranged to intersect a central axis at equal horizontal angles, the cutters being arranged over a vertically movable... | 02/07/1978 |