ALIMENTARY PASTE PRODUCT HANDLING MACHINE

摘要

A long alimentary paste product handling machine for stripping dried strands of the paste product from drying sticks and for conveying the stripped strands to a cutting station is described. A clamping device grasps the heads (the U-shaped portions) of the paste product strands as a hook on a continuous conveyor engages the supporting end of a drying stick and removes it from between the legs of the clamped strands. A pair of spaced tables which support the stripped strands transfer the strands to conveyors which are positioned between and beneath the tables and which transport the strands to the cutting station by pivoting downwardly to below the level of the conveyors. The tables pivot in the same direction of travel and at the same rate of travel as the conveyors in order to minimize transfer forces and thereby reduce breakage.