ROBERT R HARRISON
Engineering in Beverly Farms, MA
License number
Massachusetts 17703
Issued Date
Nov 1, 1997
Type
Engineer in Training
Address
Address
Beverly Farms, MA 01915
Professional information
Apparatus For Dividing Frozen Fish Slabs
US Patent:
5860348, Jan 19, 1999
Filed:
Mar 12, 1997
Appl. No.:
8/814915
Inventors:
Charles H. Morse - Beverly MA
Robert R. Harrison - Beverly MA
Robert R. Harrison - Beverly MA
Assignee:
Pearce Processing Systems, Inc. - Gloucester MA
International Classification:
B26D 308, B26D 706
US Classification:
83864
Abstract:
A method of dividing deep-frozen food blocks comprising forming a succession of spaced parallel blade rows each row having a plurality of spaced parallel coaxial freely rotatable discoid blades and advancing successive food blocks past the successive blade rows so that the blades in the successive blade rows rotate with a peripheral speed which more or less matches the speed of the block advance so that there is minimal relative linear motion of the blade edges and the blocks whereby the blades groove the blocks by displacing block material to the sides of the grooves and selecting a number of blade rows such that while the grooves made by any blade row are quite shallow, the grooves made by all of the blade rows divide each of the blocks into a plurality of parts. Apparatus for practicing the method is also disclosed.
Food Extrusion Pump System
US Patent:
5820911, Oct 13, 1998
Filed:
Mar 21, 1996
Appl. No.:
8/620128
Inventors:
Charles H. Morse - Beverly MA
Robert Reed Harrison - Beverly MA
Robert Reed Harrison - Beverly MA
Assignee:
Pearce Processing Sustems - Gloucester MA
International Classification:
A22C 700, A23P 100
US Classification:
426516
Abstract:
The present invention comprises a foodstuff processing assembly for the continuous, uniform flow per unit time discharge of a foodstuff onto a moveable conveyor belt, the assembly comprising a support frame for supportively holding the pump assembly. A plurality of split pump housings are disposed transversely with respect to the conveyor belt. An upper drive shaft rotates a plurality of gears within each of the spilt pump housing portions. A lower support shaft rotatably supports corresponding lower array of gear teeth within those split pump housings. The input chambers are arranged in communication with a common manifold, and a plurality of nozzles are disposed in a forward portion of each of the split pump housing sections. A pressurized foodstuff containment vessel is in communication through a manifold into each of the input chambers feeding the split pump housing members.