Patent ID: 7428962
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: A22C,A23G,B65G

Abstract:
1. A method of moving food items to be cooked or cured through a food processor having an oven, comprising: concurrently transporting a plurality of strands of elongated food such that the elongated food strands can travel over separate ones of side-by-side selectable pre-determined travel lanes at a first speed; directing the elongated food strands to travel separately through different respective side-by-side pick-up guides, each pick-up guide having a floor, a ramped portion and opposing ingress and egress portions, so that each elongated food strand enters a respective pick-up guide and is directed to follow the ramp and exit from the egress portion thereof; and guiding the elongated food strands separately onto a lateral router guide after the directing step so that the each of the elongated food strands are concurrently translated a lateral distance proximate to but downstream of the pick-up guides to cause the strands to concurrently laterally alter their travel lanes in a predetermined manner.