| 摘要 |
A link separator for severing a continuous link or chain of frankfurters or similar articles at successive joining segments comprising a pair of opposed, spaced-apart, contra-rotating driven feed wheels engageable with and defining a generally axial path along which the chain is fed, the feed wheels each being resiliently deflectable normal to the path of movement of the chain, a photocell and opposed light source on the emergent side of the feed wheels, the chain passing therebetween, a cutting station proximal to the photocell, a relatively thin knife rotatable in a plane generally perpendicular to and extending through the longitudinal axis of each successive joining segment, drive and control means for the knife whereby the knife rotates through a fixed arc only once for each joining segment, the control means being governed by a signal from the photocell generated by the presence of a joining segment, the rotation of the knife being timed to sever each successive joining segment, and a pair of spaced apart, power driven, contra-rotating discharge wheels on the emergent side of the cutting station mutually engageable with each severed frankfurter, the discharge wheel on the side of each frankfurter opposite the direction of movement of the knife being resiliently deflectable generally normal to the path of movement of the frankfurters, the other discharge wheel being undeflectable.
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