Patents by Inventor Masami Umetsu
Masami Umetsu has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9731848Abstract: A bread packaging apparatus for packaging bread in a bag, includes a first urging unit that comes into contact with a loaf of bread and conveys the loaf of bread along a conveying path; and a control unit for controlling a speed of the first urging unit. The control unit controls the speed of the first urging unit such that the speed when the first urging unit comes into contact with the loaf of bread is different from the speed when the first urging unit conveys the loaf of bread.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 15, 2017Assignee: OSHIKIRI MACHINERY LTD.Inventors: Minoru Suzuki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa, Shigehisa Sakamoto, Tamotsu Abe, Takeshi Nakamura, Tasuku Fujita
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Patent number: 9604786Abstract: A bread conveying apparatus includes a flight conveyer including a first flight for urging a bread, an endless revolving member on which the first flight is mounted, and a driving member and a driven member, the endless revolving member being wound around the driving member and driven member, a rail extending along a conveying path of the bread and supporting the first flight, and a rail size setting unit for setting a length of the rail with respect to an extending direction of the conveying path. The length of the rail with respect to the conveying direction is set by the rail size setting unit based on a size of the bread.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: OSHIKIRI MACHINERY LTD.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Patent number: 9272429Abstract: A bread slicing apparatus includes a plurality of drums disposed spaced apart from each other and adapted to be wound with an endless blade for slicing a loaf of bread, a plurality of rotation shafts on which the plurality of drums are coaxially mounted, respectively, a shaft support member including one end portion pivotably mounted and another end portion removably mounted, and the shaft support member being arranged to support at least one end portion of the plurality of rotation shafts, and a drum placement mechanism provided with a guide member by which opposed ends of the at least one of the plurality of rotation shafts are supported.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: OSHIKIRI MACHINERY LTD.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20150217941Abstract: A bread conveying apparatus includes a flight conveyer including a first flight for urging a bread, an endless revolving member on which the first flight is mounted, and a driving member and a driven member, the endless revolving member being wound around the driving member and driven member, a rail extending along a conveying path of the bread and supporting the first flight, and a rail size setting unit for setting a length of the rail with respect to an extending direction of the conveying path. The length of the rail with respect to the conveying direction is set by the rail size setting unit based on a size of the bread.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2015Publication date: August 6, 2015Inventors: Yuzuru OKI, Masami UMETSU, Takahiro HASEGAWA
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Patent number: 9010226Abstract: A bread conveying apparatus and a bread slicing apparatus including the bread conveying apparatus, comprise a flight conveyer including a first flight for urging a bread, an endless revolving member on which the first flight is mounted, and a driving member and a driven member, the endless revolving member being wound around the driving member and driven member; a rail extending along a conveying path of the bread and supporting the first flight; and a rail size setting unit for setting a length of the rail with respect to an extending direction of the conveying path, wherein the length of the rail with respect to the conveying direction is set by the rail size setting unit based on a size of the bread.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20150000496Abstract: A bread slicing apparatus includes a plurality of drums disposed spaced apart from each other and adapted to be wound with an endless blade for slicing a loaf of bread, a plurality of rotation shafts on which the plurality of drums are coaxially mounted, respectively, a shaft support member including one end portion pivotably mounted and another end portion removably mounted, and the shaft support member being arranged to support at least one end portion of the plurality of rotation shafts, and a drum placement mechanism provided with a guide member by which opposed ends of the at least one of the plurality of rotation shafts are supported.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8833222Abstract: A bread slicing apparatus includes a plurality of drums disposed spaced apart from each other and adapted to be wound with an endless blade, a plurality of rotation shafts on which the plurality of drums are coaxially mounted, respectively, a shaft support frame member including one end portion and another end portion, and extending outside a cylindrical space surrounded by an outer circumference surface of the plurality of drums and by a plane extended parallel with and from the outer circumference surface of the plurality of drums, a shaft support member including one end portion pivotably mounted on the shaft support frame member and another end portion removably mounted on the shaft support frame member, and the shaft support member being arranged to support at least one end portion of the plurality of rotation shafts, and a drum placement mechanism provided with a guide member.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20140245703Abstract: A bread packaging apparatus for packaging bread in a bag, includes a first urging unit that comes into contact with a loaf of bread and conveys the loaf of bread along a conveying path; and a control unit for controlling a speed of the first urging unit. The control unit controls the speed of the first urging unit such that the speed when the first urging unit comes into contact with the loaf of bread is different from the speed when the first urging unit conveys the loaf of bread.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Minoru Suzuki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa, Shigehisa Sakamoto, Tamotsu Abe, Takeshi Nakamura, Tasuku Fujita
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Patent number: 8424452Abstract: A dough dividing apparatus includes a dough discharge member (26) having a front end surface (30) having a recessed surface (28) extending substantially horizontally and having a circular arc-shaped cross-section and dough discharge holes (34) having outlets (32) opening on the front end surface, cutters (38) having cutting edges (36) extending in the longitudinal direction of the recessed surface (28), and a cutter driving device (40) that causes the cutting edges (36) to perform circular motion while keeping the cutters in a fixed posture so that the cutting edges periodically slide along the recessed surface downward from above it to cut and divide dough continuously extruded from the outlets (32).Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2007Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8387521Abstract: A kneaded dough dividing apparatus has a divider vessel body having a dough inlet and two dough outlets for discharging kneaded dough as two streams of dough. The divider vessel body is provided therein with an outlet control member that simultaneously partially closes the two dough outlets. The outlet control member is displaceable relative to the two dough outlets to reduce the opening area of one of the two dough outlets when enlarging the opening area of the other of the two dough outlets and to reduce the opening area of the other dough outlet when enlarging the opening area of the one dough outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2007Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8382365Abstract: An easily cleanable horizontal mixer (10) includes a mixing bowl (18), a roof (22) configured to close an upper opening of the mixing bowl, and a material feed tube (24) provided on the roof and communicated with a material feed port formed in the roof. A rotatable lid (26) is disposed in the material feed tube. The lid has an inner surface (26a) that can be set flush with an inner surface (22a) of the roof. The mixing bowl has a scraper member (32) provided at an upper end (16b) of the mixing bowl defining the upper opening. The scraper member slides on the inner surface of the roof when the mixing bowl is rotated from a mixing operation position to a non-mixing operation position.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa, Shigehisa Sakamoto
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Publication number: 20110296970Abstract: A bread slicing apparatus comprises: a plurality of drums disposed spaced apart from each other and adapted to be wound with an endless blade; a plurality of rotation shafts on which the plurality of drums are coaxially mounted, respectively; a shaft support frame member extending outside a cylindrical space defined by an outer circumference surface and its extending surface of the plurality of drums; a shaft support member including one end portion pivotably mounted on the shaft support frame member and another end portion removably mounted on the shaft support frame member, and the shaft support member being capable of supporting at least one end portion of the plurality of rotation shafts; and a drum placement mechanism capable of placing at least one of the plurality of drums thereon, wherein the shaft support member is capable of pivoting between inside of the cylindrical space and outside of the cylindrical space, and the shaft support member is capable of pivoting toward the outside of the cylindricalType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru OKI, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20110296966Abstract: A bread conveying apparatus and a bread slicing apparatus including the bread conveying apparatus, comprise a flight conveyer including a first flight for urging a bread, an endless revolving member on which the first flight is mounted, and a driving member and a driven member, the endless revolving member being wound around the driving member and driven member; a rail extending along a conveying path of the bread and supporting the first flight; and a rail size setting unit for setting a length of the rail with respect to an extending direction of the conveying path, wherein the length of the rail with respect to the conveying direction is set by the rail size setting unit based on a size of the bread.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2010Publication date: December 8, 2011Applicant: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru OKI, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Patent number: 8070353Abstract: An easily cleanable horizontal mixer. This horizontal mixer (10) includes a mixing bowl (18) having an upper opening, a material feed port (20), a roof (22) configured so as to close the upper opening, a material feed tube (24) attached to the roof and extending upwardly from a periphery of the material feed port to define a material feed passage extending through the material feed port, and the lid (26) disposed in the material feed tube. The mixing bowl has a bottom wall (14), a peripheral wall (16) extending from the periphery of the bottom wall to the upper opening, and a scraper plate (32) at an upper end (16b) of the peripheral wall. The lid has an inner surface (26a) that is, at a position to close the material feed port, brought into a position where the inner surface is flush with an inner surface (22a) of the roof.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Oshikiri Machinery Ltd.Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20100206184Abstract: A dough dividing apparatus includes a dough discharge member (26) having a front end surface (30) having a recessed surface (28) extending substantially horizontally and having a circular arc-shaped cross-section and dough discharge holes (34) having outlets (32) opening on the front end surface, cutters (38) having cutting edges (36) extending in the longitudinal direction of the recessed surface (28), and a cutter driving device (40) that causes the cutting edges (36) to perform circular motion while keeping the cutters in a fixed posture so that the cutting edges periodically slide along the recessed surface downward from above it to cut and divide dough continuously extruded from the outlets (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2007Publication date: August 19, 2010Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20100180779Abstract: A kneaded dough dividing apparatus has a divider vessel body (24) having a dough inlet (18) and two dough outlets (20, 22) for discharging kneaded dough as two streams of dough. The divider vessel body is provided therein with an outlet control member (26) that simultaneously partially closes the two dough outlets. The outlet control member is displaceable relative to the two dough outlets (20, 22) to reduce the opening area of one of the two dough outlets when enlarging the opening area of the other of the two dough outlets and to reduce the opening area of the other dough outlet when enlarging the opening area of the one dough outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2007Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Yuzuru Oki, Masami Umetsu, Takahiro Hasegawa
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Publication number: 20100091608Abstract: An easily cleanable horizontal mixer. The horizontal mixer (10) includes a mixing bowl (18), a roof (22) configured to close an upper opening of the mixing bowl, and a material feed tube (24) provided on the roof and communicated with a material feed port formed in the roof. A rotatable lid (26) is disposed in the material feed tube. The lid has an inner surface (26a) that can be set flush with an inner surface (22a) of the roof. The mixing bowl has a scraper member (32) provided at an upper end (16b) of the mixing bowl defining the upper opening. The scraper member slides on the inner surface of the roof when the mixing bowl is rotated from a mixing operation position to a non-mixing operation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Inventors: YUZURU OKI, MASAMI UMETSU, TAKAHIRO HASEGAWA, SHIGEHISA SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20090245016Abstract: An easily cleanable horizontal mixer. This horizontal mixer (10) includes a mixing bowl (18) having an upper opening, a material feed port (20), a roof (22) configured so as to close the upper opening, a material feed tube (24) attached to the roof and extending upwardly from a periphery of the material feed port to define a material feed passage extending through the material feed port, and the lid (26) disposed in the material feed tube. The mixing bowl has a bottom wall (14), a peripheral wall (16) extending from the periphery of the bottom wall to the upper opening, and a scraper plate (32) at an upper end (16b) of the peripheral wall. The lid has an inner surface (26a) that is, at a position to close the material feed port, brought into a position where the inner surface is flush with an inner surface (22a) of the roof.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Yuzuru OKI, Masami UMETSU, Takahiro HASEGAWA