Patent 7263923 was granted and assigned to Urschel Laboratories on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and process for cutting food products, in which the products are fed single-file by gravity through a cutting device comprising one or more cutting elements. The apparatus makes use of a device for contacting and positioning the products as they drop through a feed passage prior to encountering the cutting device so as to produce size-reduced products of more uniform size.