William J Lasar

US Patent:

41272366, Nov 28, 1978

Filed:

Sep 12, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/832633

Inventors:

William Lasar - Downey CA

International Classification:

B02C 1822

US Classification:

241 375

Abstract:

A meat flaking machine for reducing a block of meat to meat flakes, which includes a lower housing containing a power driven cutting drum for cutting the meat block into flakes. An upper housing includes a charging chamber communicating with the lower housing and having a vertical entrance opening. The block of meat is placed on a loading tray, which is pivotally connected to the upper housing, and is transferred through the entrance into the charging chamber by pivoting the loading tray upwardly until it extends along the opening. A pressure plate, mounted within the upper housing, is moved manually by an external handle into contact with the upper end of the meat block to press it downwardly onto the cutting drum. A mechanical interlock ensures that the loading tray cannot load a meat block into the charging chamber unless the pressure plate has been moved to a position out of the way of the block.

US Patent:

45098603, Apr 9, 1985

Filed:

May 3, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/491045

Inventors:

William Lasar - Downey CA

Assignee:

Lasar Manufacturing Co. - CA

International Classification:

A21C 100
B01F 708

US Classification:

366 99

Abstract:

An improved dual action mixer is provided of the type having simultaneously counterrotatable mixing elements mounted within a mixer drum, wherein the mixing elements are relatively easily removable for cleaning purposes. One mixing element comprises an array of paddles carried by a driven shaft having one end threaded to a motor drive shaft at one end wall of the drum and an opposite end rotatably support with axial clearance within a bearing block movably mounted on the opposite drum end wall. The other mixing element comprises a pair of support hubs carried rotatably about the driven shaft and secured to radiating scraper arms having their outer ends joined to mixer blades extending with arcuate contour generally between the drum end walls, wherein one support hub is held axially by a shoulder on the driven shaft in engagement with a drive collar disposed about the drive shaft for opposite rotation thereto. The two mixing elements are removable quickly and easily by unthreading the driven shaft from the drive shaft, followed by retraction of the bearing block from the drum end wall and disengagement of the driven support hub from the drive collar to permit free withdrawal of the mixing elements from the drum for cleaning.