Bread cqqling apparatus

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A DELIVERY CONVEYOR FOR ADVANCING LOAVES OF BREAD SIDEWISE AND FORWARDLY CONVEYORS FOR ADVANCING LOAVES TO SLICING AND WRAPPING MACHINES, A COOLING CONVEYOR INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID DELIVERY AND FORWARDLY CONVEYORS COMPRISING, A COLLECTING CONVEYER HAVING ITS RECEIVING END POSITIONED TO RECEIVE BREAD FROM SAID DELIVERY CONVEYOR AND INCLUDING A CONTINUOUS LOOP WITH INDIVIDUALLY FREELY ROTATABLE BREAD SUPPORTING SLEEVES PERMITTING OVERTAKING MOVEMENT OF BREAD RELATIVE TO THE COLLECTING CONVEYOR, A MOTOR CONNECTED TO DRIVE SAID COLLECTING CONVEYOR AT A SLOWER SPEED THAN SAID DELIVERY CONVEYOR, A SPACING CONVEYOR HAVING ITS RECEIVING END POSITIONED TO RECEIVE BREAD FROM SAID COLLECTING CONVEYOR, A DRIVE MEANS CONNECTED TO DRIVE SAID SPACING CONVEYOR AT A FASTER RATE THAN SAID COLLECTING CONVEYOR, A TRANSFER CONVEYOR HAVING A SERIES OF FIXED INDIVIDUALLY ROTATABLE ROLLS POSITIONED TO RECEIVE BREAD FROM SAID SPACING CONVEYOR, A PLURALITY OF VERTICALLY RECIPROCABLE ROLLS INTERPOSED AT INTERVALS BETWEEN GROUPS OF SAID FIXED ROLLS TO SEPARATE INDIVIDUAL LOAVES, A STOP AT THE END OF SAID TRANSFER CONVEYOR, SEPARATE AIR ACTUATED PISTONS CONNECTED TO FRAMES TO RECIPROCATE SAID RECIPROCABLE ROLLS, BELT MEANS AND ANOTHER DRIVING MOTOR THEREFOR POSITIONED TO ROTATE SAID ROTATABLE ROLLS AND SAID RECIPROCABLE ROLLS IN THE LOWERED POSITION OF THE LATTER AT THE SAME PERIPHERAL SPEED AS SAID SPACING CONVEYOR, ELASTICALLY ACTUATED VALVES CONNECTED TO SEPARATELY ACTUATE SAID PISTONS, ELECTRIC SPACER SWITCHES HAVING ACTUATING FINGES POSITIONED IN THEPAT OF BREAD ON SAID TRANSFER CONVEYOR AND CONNECTED TO ACTIVATE SAID VALVES AND PISTONS TO SEPARATELY AND SUCCESSIVELY RAISE SAID RECIPROCABLE ROLLS STARTING AT THE FRONT END OF SAID TRANSFER CONVEYOR AND AFTER SEPARATE LOAVES HAVE PASSED OVER THE RECIPROCABLE ROLL ASSOCIATED WITH EACH SWITCH, A STOP SWITCH HAVING AN ACTUATING FINGER POSITIONED TO BE ACTUATED BY A LOAF ADVANCED TO SAID STOP, A PENUMATICALLY OPERATED PUSHER MOUNTED TO RECIPROCATE TRANSVERSELY ACROSS THE ROLLS OF SAID TRANSFER CONVEYOR TO PUSH A GROUP OF LOAVES ENDWISE THEREFROM, AN ELECTRICALLY ACTUATED VALVE CONNECTED TO ACTIVATE SAID PUSHER, LIMIT SWITCHES POSITIONED TO BE ACTUATED BY MOVEMENT OF SAID PUSHER, ELECTRICAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SAID SWITCHES ARRANGED TO STOP SAID FIRST MOTOR DRIVE TO SAID COLLECTING CONVEYOR AND SAID DRIVE MEANS TO SAID SPACING CONVEYOR AND ADVANCE AND RETRACT SAID PUSHER AND LOWER SAID RECIPROCABLE ROLLS AND RESTART SAID FIRST MOTOR UPON ACUTATION OF SAID STOP SWITCH AND ALL OF SAID SPACER SWITCHES, A FORWARDING CONVEYOR WAY INCLUDING INDIVIDUALLY ROTATABLE DRIVEN ROLLS POSITIONED TO RECEIVE BREAD FROM SAID PUSHER AND ADVANCE THE LOAVES TO A SLIDE PLATE, A THIRD MOTOR CONNECTED TO ROTATE SAID ROLLS IN SAID FORWARDLY WAY, AN OVERHEAD PUSHER CONVEYOR POSITIONED OVER SAID WAY AND HAVING FLIGHTS ADAPTED TO PUSH A GROUP OF LOAVES ENDWISE OFF SAID PLATE, SAID LAST MOTOR HAVING AN ELECTRICALLY ACUTATED CLUTCH CONNECTED TO DRIVE SAID OVERHEAD CONVEYOR, A COOLING CONVEYOR HAVING AN INTERIOR CHAIN ARRANGED AND SUPPORTED IN PLURAL BANKS OF SPIRAL TIERS AROUND DRIVING AND DRIVEN SPROCKETS FROM A RECEIVING REACH TO AN UNLOADING REACH AND RETURN REACH, INTERIOR RAILS SUPPORTING SAID CHAIN ALONG SAID TIERS AND REACHES, EXTERIOR RAILS EXTENDING IN SPACED PARALLEL RELATION TO SAID INTERIOR RAILS, ATTACHING LINKS CONNECTED IN PAIRS TO SAID CHAIN, RECTANGULAR WIRE PALLETS PROJECTING FROM EACH PAIR OF LINKS AND SLIDABLY SUPPORTED AT THEIR OUTER ENDS ON SAID EXTERIOR, RAILS, UPRIGHT PINS PROJECTING FROM THE OUTER SIDES OF SAID LINKS, PIVOT BARS HAVING A SMALL EYE HORIZONTALLY PIVOTED ON ONE PIN OF EACH PAIR AND AN ELONGATED EYE HORIZONTALLY SLIDABLY CONNECTED TO THE PIN ON THE OTHER LINK OF EACH PAIR, SAID PALLETS HAVING THEIR INNER ENDS VERTICALLY SWINGABLY CONNECTED TO SAID PIVOT BARS AND HAVING PARALLEL OUTWARDLY EXTENDING BARS FORMING THE SURFACE OF THE PALLETS, SWITCH ACTUATING PINS CONNECTED TO THE INNER SIDES OF SAID LINKS, A LOADING SWITCH POSITIONED ALONG SAID RECEIVING REACH TO BE ACTUATED BY SAID SWITCH PINS AND CONNECTED TO ENGAGE SAID SWITCH AS A PALLET ADVANCE TO THE END OF SAID WAY, A NORMALLY CLOSED SWITCH ON SAID LOADING CONVEYOR ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED IN PARALLEL WITH SAID LOADING SWITCH AND POSITION TO BE OPENED MOMENTARILY BY THE FLIGHTS OF THE LOADING CONVEYOR AFTER SAID LOADING CONVEYOR HAS LOADED ONE GROUP OF LOAVES, A FIRST UNLOADING CONVEYOR EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OVER THE DELIVERY REACH OF SAID COOLING CONVEYOR AND THE FIRST OF SAID FORWARDING CONVEYORS AND HAVING DEPENDING PUSHERS ADAPTED TO PUSH LOAVES ENDWISE OF SAID PALLETS, A SIXTH MOTOR HAVING AN ELECTRICALLY ACUTATED CLUTCH AND BRAKE CONNECTED TO ACTUATE SAID UNLOADING CONVEYOR, AN UNLOAD SWITCH POSITIONED TO BE ACTUATED BY SELECTED PINS ON SAID LINKS AND CONNECTED TO ENGAGE THE CLUTCH AND RELEASE THE BRAKE OF SAID UNLOADING CONVEYOR, A STOP SWITCH POSITIONED TO BE ACTUATED BY THE UNLOADING CONVEYOR AND CONNECTED TO RELEASE THE CLUTCH AND SET THE BRAKE OF THE UNLOADING CONVEYOR, A DOWNWARDLY OFF-SET PORTION IN SAID EXTERIOR RAIL LOCATED ALONG SAID DELIVERY REACH AND BEHIND SAID FIRST FORWARDING CONVEYOR AND OVER A SECOND FORWARDING CONVEYOR TO CAUSE SAID PALLETS TO TILT DOWN AND DISCHARGE BREAD REMAINING THEREON ONTO SAID SECOND FORWARDING CONVEYOR, A MOTOR HAVING A VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE CONNECTED TO DRIVE SAID COOLING CONVEYOR CHAIN, AND AN ALTERNATOR DRIVEN BY SAID VARIABLE SPEED DRIVE, SAID THIRD MOTOR BEING CONNECTED TO BE VARIABLY ENERGIZED BY ALTERNATOR, SAID SLIDE PLATE HAVING SPACER BARS THEREON SPACING THE LOAVES OF EACH GROUP BY ABOUT 3/4 OF AN INCH AS THE LOAVES ARE DEPOSITED ON SAID PALLETS.