Abstract: An apparatus for cutting out noodle is provided, which can prevent damage to scraping teeth of a scraper and prevent noodle threads from being caught at a fixing position of the scraper. The apparatus includes a housing, a first roller having a first receiving portion, a second roller having a second receiving portion, a first scraper secured at a first fixing position and having first scraping teeth inserted in the first receiving portion, a second scraper having second scraping teeth, a third scraper secured at a second secured position and having third scraping teeth, and a fourth scraper having fourth scraping teeth. The first and third scrapers include first and second transfer holes, respectively. The first fixing position is located more outwardly in HX direction than a second tooth tip, and the third fixing position is located more outwardly in HX direction than a fourth tooth tip.

Abstract: A whole muscle slicer and separator that solves the product separation problem and other problems found with an ordinary slicer. The invention is where one embodiment includes a special peel out finger bar comb that peels out every other product piece onto a conveyor and a final comb that peels out the remaining product pieces onto a second conveyor. This can be accomplished by tilting the cutting assembly to about approximately a 45 degree angle off vertical. There can be an upper and lower combs arranged in a interfacing relationship with the cutter for separating the product. Another embodiment includes a single finger bar comb having two sets of fingers.

Abstract: A whole muscle slicer and separator that solves the product separation problem and other problems found with an ordinary slicer. The invention is where one embodiment includes a special peel out finger bar comb that peels out every other product piece onto a conveyor and a final comb that peels out the remaining product pieces onto a second conveyor. This can be accomplished by tilting the cutting assembly to about approximately a 45 degree angle off vertical. There can be an upper and lower combs arranged in a dovetail interfacing relationship with the cutter for separating the product. Another embodiment includes a single finger bar comb having two sets of fingers.

Abstract: A pusher/cutter drum arrangement for use in the tobacco-processing industry for longitudinal-axial positioning and cutting of rod-shaped objects includes a rotating trough drum containing receiving troughs for receiving, respectively, the rod-shaped objects in a staggered formation. Alignment contacts extend in the receiving troughs and are adapted for aligning the rod-shaped objects with one another in a transverse direction. A rotating cutting means extends through the receiving troughs for making a transverse cut of the aligned rod-shaped objects.

Abstract: A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving at least one bead of tobacco, wherein two superimposed, mutually contacting disks with respective serrated outer edges are rotated about a common axis at different peripheral speeds to shave the bead of tobacco fed against the disks.

Abstract: A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving a bead of tobacco fed along a given path, wherein two tubular shaving bodies, arranged eccentrically one inside the other and having respective serrated annular end edges having a tangent portion located along the path of the bead, are rotated at different angular speeds about axes substantially parallel to the path to shave the bead; the inner tubular shaving body communicating pneumatically with a suction device.

Abstract: An apparatus for slicing meat into strips comprises a conveyor for transporting the meat beneath an array of spaced rotary cutting blades, which float upon their driveshaft, their spacing being maintained only by a stack of pressure wheels mounted on a freewheeling shaft parallel to the driveshaft. A free-floating wedge is confined between the conveyor surface, the cutter blades, and the pressure wheels, for separating the meat from the conveyor.

Abstract: A device for obliterating information discernible on disposable carbons from multi-part forms used in credit card transactions includes a processor contained within a housing defining a document receiving slot in an optically transparent viewing window, wherein a document inserted into the slot is fed to the processing region to obliterate certain confidential information on the carbons and to discharge the document into a guide slot in a fixed orientation adjacent the viewing window hereby the credit customer can visually verity that information obliteration has taken place without having to touch the carbon set.

Abstract: A meat cutting device comprising a feeding chute defining for the meat a path inclined towards a blade assembly, the blade assembly being formed by a plurality of disc-like cutting blades; whereby the meat piece to be cut passes automatically through the cutting blades due to the combined effect of the inclined path and the cutting blades.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a food processing machine for processing a sheet of gelatinous food material into a fibrous product. The machine includes a knife roller having a plurality of parallel annular disk-like blades, a counter roller having a cylindrical outer surface, and a nozzle for jetting a stream of a fluid from the sheet feeding side of the rollers. The jet of fluid flows between the annular blades of the rotating knife roller and prevents the food material from sticking to the blades.

Abstract: A machine for slicing matting of brittle fiber material comprising an elastomeric coated anvil roller and a slicer roller having a plurality of cutting discs mounted on an axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the anvil roller, which depress the matting into the elastomeric material of the anvil roller sufficiently to break the brittle fibers. The sliced matting can then be conveniently cut transversely on the same machine, if desired, to form diced brittle fiber matting. The diced matting, e.g., of fiberglass is a way of facilitating the separation of short fibers from fiberglass matting to produce raw material for forming new matting, or the diced brittle fiber matting, e.g., fiberglass or carbon fiber matting may be used as such.

Abstract: A pizza docker assembly including a motor driven shaft on which are mounted a plurality of docker wheels each including radially extending spines for perforating dough as it is passed therebeneath. The spines on adjacent docker wheels are offset to avoid forming a continuous line of spines and thereby reduce the tendency to lift the dough after it is perforated. A comb assembly attached to the docker assembly aids in separation of any dough lifted by the spines.

Abstract: A device for comminuting waste material, such as turnings or the like, is provided with two shafts, which are driven in opposite senses of rotation and are parallel to each other and comprise disc-shaped knives, of which the knives of one shaft engage respectively between the knives of the other shaft. The shafts are arranged in a knife box which has an upper inlet opening and a lower outlet opening and which has two external walls extending substantially parallel to the shafts. Between the knives of both shafts, stripping fingers are arranged, in the circumferential areas directed towards the external walls. The stripping fingers have a stripping end which is arranged at a short distance from the shaft and a top that is directed towards the inlet opening which is designed as a sliding surface inclined in the direction of the respective external wall of the knife box. The knife box also has by-pass openings on both sides in the sliding surface end areas.

Abstract: An apparatus for slitting paper having a plurality of pairs of cutting elements disposed transversely with respect to the direction of movement of the web and a pair of arcuate support boards extending about one row of slitter elements to a point closely adjacent the overlap of the slitter elements to provide an arcuate path of travel for the web as it passes through the cutting area. The arcuate support boards are mounted for rotation about transverse axes to facilitate rotation of the boards away from the cutting elements and thus provide access to such cutting elements for adjustment and maintenance.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting shaped articles from thin material. By way of example, the material can be uncooked dough and the articles can be preforms which are further processed into snack food chips. A rotary cutter includes a first roller having a cylindrical surface with a plurality of article cutters positioned around and projecting outwardly from the cylindrical surface. A second roller has plurality of trim cutters positioned around and projecting outwardly from it cylindrical surface. As the two rollers are rotated, the article cutters and the trim cutters are brought sequentially into shearing engagement to cut the material into articles and trim. Stripping fingers adjacent the outlet of the cutter bite, strip the articles and trim from the rollers for further processing. Preferably, the material is fed to the rollers as a ribbon, and the cutters cut the material into one or more ribbons of articles and ribbons of trim.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for use in combination with a slitter. The apparatus comprises a body member having teeth and grooves, permitting it to mesh with grooved slitting cutters, means for mounting the body member onto a slitter housing and means for aligning the body member so that a slit product can be readily extracted from the slitting cutters. The apparatus also prevents damage to the slitter in the event the slit product inadvertently breaks during slitting.