Patent ID: 6895846
Filing Date: 2005-05-24
Classification: B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In a rotary slicing machine having an impeller rotatably driven within a generally cylindrical impeller housing to carry food products by centrifugal force into sliding contact with an interior surface of said housing, said impeller housing having at least one radially open cutting slot cooperatively defined by a slicing gate at an upstream side thereof and a slicing knife at a downstream side thereof whereby the food products are carried by said impeller into cutting engagement with said slicing knife, the improvement comprising: a tapered ramp at a downstream end of said slicing gate and defining a tapered edge forming said upstream side of said cutting slot, said tapered edge being angularly oriented relative to said slicing knife whereby the food products are cut into slices each having a tapered cross sectional thickness.