US3584735A - Shuffle feed positioner - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A23—FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; TREATMENT THEREOF, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
- A23N—MACHINES OR APPARATUS FOR TREATING HARVESTED FRUIT, VEGETABLES OR FLOWER BULBS IN BULK, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PEELING VEGETABLES OR FRUIT IN BULK; APPARATUS FOR PREPARING ANIMAL FEEDING- STUFFS
- A23N15/00—Machines or apparatus for other treatment of fruits or vegetables for human purposes; Machines or apparatus for topping or skinning flower bulbs
- A23N15/04—Devices for topping fruit or vegetables
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G25/00—Conveyors comprising a cyclically-moving, e.g. reciprocating, carrier or impeller which is disengaged from the load during the return part of its movement
- B65G25/04—Conveyors comprising a cyclically-moving, e.g. reciprocating, carrier or impeller which is disengaged from the load during the return part of its movement the carrier or impeller having identical forward and return paths of movement, e.g. reciprocating conveyors
- B65G25/08—Conveyors comprising a cyclically-moving, e.g. reciprocating, carrier or impeller which is disengaged from the load during the return part of its movement the carrier or impeller having identical forward and return paths of movement, e.g. reciprocating conveyors having impellers, e.g. pushers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65G—TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
- B65G2201/00—Indexing codes relating to handling devices, e.g. conveyors, characterised by the type of product or load being conveyed or handled
- B65G2201/02—Articles
- B65G2201/0202—Agricultural and processed food products
- B65G2201/0211—Fruits and vegetables
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T83/00—Cutting
- Y10T83/647—With means to convey work relative to tool station
- Y10T83/6572—With additional mans to engage work and orient it relative to tool station
- Y10T83/6574—By work-stopping abutment
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
- Y10T83/00—Cutting
- Y10T83/727—With means to guide moving work
- Y10T83/739—Positively confines or otherwise determines path of work
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- a shuffle feed structure for feeding articles which require trimming of the ends in which the article advancing faces of the shuffle members include a series of wedge-shaped surfaces for feeding and orienting the articles (such as pickles) so that each article rests against one of the inclined faces of the shuffle feed member and abuts the end face of one of the wedges.
- the articles are carried through a pair of trimming knives which cut off the ends of the pickle so that the middle segment of each pickle is cut to a uniform length.
- FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of a shuffle feed mechanism embodying the instant invention
- FIG. 2 is a fragmentary plan view taken in a plane indicated by the line 2-2 in FIG. 1 of the shuffle feed mechanism;
- FIG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the mechanism taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 in FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4 is a perspective schematic view of a shuffle feed mechanism showing the mechanism at the instant of discharge of a pickle which has had its ends cut;
- FIG. 5 is a schematic view illustrating the operation of the mechanism in positioning a pickle on the shuffle members
- FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 5 showing another stage in the positioning of the pickles on the slights of the shuffle feed mechanism
- FIG. 7 is a schematic view showing the pickles properly positioned on a shuffle feed flight ready for presentation of the cutting knives as illustrated in FIG. 4;
- FIG. 8 is a perspective view of one of the knives
- FIG. 9 is a detail view of the knife shown in FIG. 8, being taken as indicated by the line 9-9 in FIG. 8;
- FIG. 10 is a view of the modified form of the invention wherein rotary knives are employed in lieu of the stationary knives shown in the preceding modification;
- FIGS. 11 through illustrate a modified form of the article advancing face ofa flight of a shuffle feed
- FIG. 11 is a perspective view of the modified form of he shuffle feed member
- FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the wedge element
- FIG. 13 is a sectional view taken as indicated by the line 13-13 in FIG. 11;
- FIG. 14 is a schematic view of one of the 'shuffle feed members employing the individual resilient wedges
- FIG. 15 is a schematic view similar to view 14 but showing a shortened form of the rubber wedges.
- the shuffle feed structure includes an overhead frame which includes respective side frame members 10 and a plurality of cross members 11 supported on frame posts 12.
- the shuffle feeding mechanism comprises two similar movable sets of alternating shuffle members 15 and 16 (FIGS. 2 and 3) which are mounted in inclined position and have a long upwardly facing article supporting portion and a short upwardly facing article advancing and supporting portion.
- the set of shuffle feed members 15 extends between and is secured to opposite fame members 17, and the set of shuffle members l6is secured on upwardly projecting angles or members 18 from opposite frame members 19.
- the frame members 17 (FIGS. 1 and 2) are supported by four upwardly extending pivoted links 21, one pair on each side, which are each secured to a plate 22 on the frame members 10, and the frame members 19 and their corresponding shuffle members 16 are supported by respective parallel links 23 which are similarly connected in a pivoted fashion to the plates 22.
- the reciprocating drive for the respective shuffle feed members is obtained by drive links 26 and 27 (FIGS. 1 and 2), there being one pair on each side, the drive links 26 being pivotally connected to respective frames 17 and 19 at their lower ends and at the upper end to respective eccentric straps 31 and 32 on a shaft 33 which is suitable driven from a motor 34.
- the articles to be fed to the shuffle feed members, such as pickles, are conveyed thereto by a feed chute 35 of conventional construction.
- each shuffle member comprises a base part 36 and a pocket part 37.
- the pocket part provides the advancing face of the shuffle member and is secured to the base part 36 by screws 38.
- the pocket part 37 of the advancing face of each positioning shuffle feed member is composed of a series of wedge members comprising a front slanted advancing or camming face 41 and each of these advancing faces terminate at their upper or leading edge at a perpendicular stop face or abutment 42.
- the endmost shuffle member supported by the frame 19 and one set of movable shuffle members is of special construction and comprises a wooden block 46 having a projection or lip 47 at the top of the planelike advancing face thereof for overlying a pickle and tending to retain the pickle against the adjacent shuffle member 15.
- this shuffle member 46 is provided with a series of slots 48 which cooperate with a series of knives 49 carried by the endmost shuffle member 15 so that as the two shuffle members approach each other, the knives will cut through a pickle or other article carried forward by the shuffle member 46 and will enter the slots 48.
- the slots 48 and the knives 49 are provided in related position to each of the article advancing faces 41 to straddle such faces and to cut off the ends ofa pickle which has been aligned by one of the faces 41.
- each cutting knife 49 is detachably mounted in a T-shaped supporting bracket 51 by means of a screw 52, and the base of the T-member 51 is secured to the shuffle member 15 by screws 53 engaging slotted holes 54 in the bracket 51 so that the proper lateral position of each knife can be adjusted to match the lengths of different sized feeding wedges.
- the cutoff means is shown schematically as a series of rotary knives 61 carried by a shaft 62 suitably journaled in fixed position on the frame nd driven in a conventional manner.
- the knives 61 are spaced similarly to the knives 49 and operate in a similar manner.
- each rubber wedge 66 includes a front article advancing cam face 67 which is preferably provided with a surface to reduce friction, for example with a Teflon" spray or a Teflon" tape.
- Thiswedge 66 has on its sidewalls adjacent its base respective opposite longitudinal recesses 68 which are snapped into engagement with the inwardly projecting flanges 69 of a mounting member 71 secured to the face of the adjacent shuffle member 15a.
- the wedge 66 is provided with a central hollow portion 72 which will allow inward movement of the sidewalls of the wedge to snap into engagement with the grooves 68 of the flanges 69.
- FIG. 14 illustrates the series of wedges 67 mounted in a shuffle member 15a.
- a shortened wedge-shaped surface is provided, and the wedges 67 can be cut off at their narrow end portions as indicated at 74 so that a shorter article can be oriented and cut.
- a shuffle feed mechanism for orienting elongated food articles such as pickles, a frame, a first set of transversely extending shuffle members, a second set of transversely extending shuffle members arranged in alternating relation with the shuffle members of said first set, each of said shuffle members including an upper article supporting surface and a front arti cle advancing surface, means mounting said sets on said frame for relative reciprocating movement in a direction to advance an article from shuffle member to shuffle member, the article advancing face of certain of said shuffle members comprising a transverse series of wedges providing a saw tooth construction and including a transverse series of article stops and a corresponding series of camming surfaces leading to aid article stops, whereby articles fed over the shuffle feed eventually become positioned with an end against a stop.
- each of said wedges comprises a resilient wedge element detachable engaged with the supporting shuffle member.
- the resilient wedge element is of hollow construction and has on its opposite sides a pair of recesses or grooves for interlocking engagement with the corresponding shuffle member and in which said shuffle member has inturned flanges at either edge of the advancing face thereof for interlocking engagement with said grooves.
- a shuffle feed mechanism having transversely extending shuffle members
- the improvement which comprises a wedge for mounting in the transversely extending article advancing face of the shuffle member, said wedge being of resilient construction and having a slantir 1 article advancing cam face and an article stop to which sai slanting cam face leads, said wedge having its base provided with mounting means for detachable interlocking engagement with the shuffle member.
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