Patent ID: 7658133
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A cutting apparatus comprising an annular-shaped cutting head and an impeller assembly coaxially mounted within the cutting head for rotation about an axis of the cutting head in a rotational direction relative to the cutting head, the cutting apparatus further comprising: paddles attached to the impeller assembly for delivering round food products radially outward toward the cutting head, each of the paddles having a radially outer extremity adjacent a periphery of the impeller assembly, an oppositely-disposed radially inner extremity, and a face between the radially inner and outer extremities and facing the rotational direction of the impeller assembly, each of the paddles having grooves transverse to a radial of the impeller assembly, the grooves being spaced apart from each other and spacing between adjacent grooves decreases in a radial outward direction of the impeller assembly; and at least one knife extending radially inward from the cutting head toward the impeller assembly in a direction opposite the rotational direction of the impeller assembly, the knife having a cutting edge at a radially innermost extremity thereof and a radially outer face that defines a trajectory plane for slices removed from the food products by the cutting edge.