Patent ID: 6217309
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: B65B

Abstract:
Apparatus for providing a design on a series of slices of a low tensile strength food product which are wrapped, each slice having first and second film wrap components covering its opposite sides, said apparatus comprising:means for feeding a plurality of slices serially into engagement with a pair of rotary dies for having a cutting member thereon;said cutting members being configured to engage each wrapped slice from opposite sides, with said cutting members in registration with one another;said cutting members being separated from one another by a distance about equal to the combined thicknesses of the first and second components of the film wrap when in registration with one another, and;means for driving said rotary dies in timed relation with feeding of said slices such that said rotary dies effect cutting of the design reliably positioned in about the same location with respect to each slice, about through the entire thickness thereof without cutting said film wrap.