Claims
- 1. An automatic food slicing apparatus wherein a conveyor assembly conveys loaves of food product along a path, a cutoff knife pivotally mounted to the apparatus for cutting the loaves into slabs of a determined length, said conveyor assembly comprising:
- a lower conveyor and an upper conveyor, said upper conveyor mounted on an arm that is pivotally mounted to the apparatus, and a control for controlling the pivotal movement of the arm and thereby a downward urging movement of the upper conveyor for urging the upper conveyor toward the lower conveyor and clamping of a food product between the conveyors.
- 2. A conveyor assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein the arm is pivotally mounted to the apparatus intermediate opposite ends thereof, the upper conveyor mounted on one end and the control for controlling pivotal movement acting at the opposite end, said opposite end weighted to counter the weight of the support at said one end and the control including a biasing member urging a force at said opposite end to further counter the weight of the support and a biasing member adjustment for adjusting the force applied to said biasing member as desired to apply a desired clamping force between the conveyors.
- 3. A conveyor assembly as defined in claim 2 wherein said opposite end of the arm is weighted to counter the weight of the upper conveyor and the upper and lower conveyors are driven by a variable speed motor with the upper and lower conveyors synchronized for driving the food product at the same given speed.
- 4. A conveyor assembly as defined in claim 3 including a tilt adjustment for manually adjusting the tilt angle of the upper conveyor relative to the lower conveyor.
Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of Ser. No. 08/063,402 filed on May 17, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,410,954 issued May 2, 1995, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/876,123, filed Apr. 29, 1992 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,271,304 issued Dec. 21, 1993, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/547,779 filed Jul. 3, 1990, now abandoned.
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