Patent ID: 6920739

Claim:
A method of aligning a mark to a plurality of individual pieces of food product to be divided from a sheet of food product before the individual pieces of food product are at least partially divided from the sheet of food product, the method comprising the steps of: providing a continuous feed of a sheet of food product; transferring the continuously fed sheet of food product to an intermittently movable conveyor by way of an accumulating zone that can accumulate at least a portion of the continuously fed sheet of food product during a dwell portion of the intermittently movable conveyor; marking the sheet of food product while the sheet of food product is carried by the intermittently movable conveyor; feeding the marked sheet of food product to an intermittently movable cutting plate having a plurality of cutting openings so that the cutting openings are aligned to the marked sheet of food product as desired; dividing, at least partially, the sheet of food product into individual pieces of food product.