Product length control system

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B26D 1/09 (2006.01) B26D 5/00 (2006.01) B26D 7/06 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2134686

A system and a method are provided for cutting oversized vegetable products or the like. such as potatoes in the course of producing french fry strips, to obtain a controlled product length distribution. The system includes a conveyor (16) for transporting the products in single file to a length sensor station (20) for detecting the length of each product, and then on a cutting station (22) for cutting each overlong product at one of a plurality of different positions as a function of the detected product length. Such length-responsive cutting provides significant control over the distribution of product lengths, while minimizing or eliminating the presence of products which are too long or too short.

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