US 12,029,220 B2
Compact orienting and transferring device for unitary elongated food products and operating method thereof
Josep Lagares Gamero, Besalú (ES); and Federico Scalerandi, Vimercate (IT)
Appl. No. 17/912,451
Filed by METALQUIMIA, SAU, Girona (ES)
PCT Filed Mar. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/056677
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/185831, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20382201 (EP), filed on Mar. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0148614 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. A22C 11/00 (2006.01); B65G 15/16 (2006.01); B65G 29/02 (2006.01); B65G 47/14 (2006.01); B65G 47/31 (2006.01)
CPC A22C 11/008 (2013.01) [B65G 15/16 (2013.01); B65G 29/02 (2013.01); B65G 47/1464 (2013.01); B65G 47/31 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0202 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0241 (2013.01); B65G 2203/044 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Compact orienting and transferring device for unitary elongated food products comprising:
an extractor device including an extraction path, defined on a first conveyor, with an intake end for receiving unitary elongated food products and an out-take end for delivering the unitary elongated food products,
the extractor device further comprises a circular wheel, rotative around a horizontal axis, defining a wheel periphery and including a circular groove on the wheel periphery defined between two lateral annular walls facing each other and one bottom wall comprised between the two lateral annular walls and facing a circular groove entrance which surrounds the circular wheel;
the first conveyor is a conveyor belt wider than the circular groove entrance defined between the two lateral annular walls of the circular groove, and a circular portion of the first conveyor is directly supported on the wheel periphery covering the circular groove entrance on a portion of that wheel periphery, defining a circular portion of the extraction path within the circular groove between the bottom wall of the circular groove and the portion of the first conveyor covering the circular groove;
a circular conveyor, rotative in a substantially horizontal plane, defining a conveyor periphery surrounded by a limitative wall, the limitative wall including an extraction opening connected to the intake-end of the extraction path adjacent to the conveyor periphery; and
the circular wheel and the circular conveyor are coordinated through a control unit to produce the rotative movement of the circular periphery of the circular wheel at a higher velocity than the rotative movement of the conveyor periphery of the circular conveyor.