Title: Conveyor loading system

Abstract: A system for loading a continuously moving conveyor belt comprises a slicer for producing bacon strips from a bacon slab, a conveyor for conveying bacon strips from the slicer, and a transfer station for transferring bacon strips from a serial arrangement on the conveyor to a side-by-side arrangement of spaced transverse rows on the continuously moving conveyor belt. A novel control system is provided to coordinate the operation of the slicer and the transfer station to obtain a continuous and uniform loading of the conveyor belt and to avoid the production of partial or deformed bacon strips by the slicer. The loading system is particularly well adapted to loading unfried bacon strips onto the conveyor of a bacon frying oven.

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Inventors: Balch, James L. (Madison, WI, US)
Anderson, James E. (Madison, WI, US)
Sadeski, Boleslaus J. (Madison, WI, US)

Application Number: 447392
Filing Date: 1974-03-01
Publication_date: 1976-03-02
Assignee: Oscar Mayer & Co., Inc. (Madison, WI)
Primary Class(es): 198/429 414/567
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

1330099	Feb, 1920	Stoop	214/91.
2061358	Nov, 1936	Hunter et al.	214/26.

Other Refs: 1,479,668

Mar, 1967	FR

Primary Examiner: Abercrombie, Willie G.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Lockwood, Dewey, Zickert & Alex