Electric Bread Slicer

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 35, 14 March 1930, Page 25

Electric Bread Slicer

To DELIVER to customers loaves of bread neatly slicéd and ready for the table or for sandwich making, a baker of St. Louis, Missouri, has invented a machine which can divide a loaf into twenty-nine even slices with one slash of its blades. Requiring only one\ operator, it can cut 1000 loaves in an hour. The bread is loaded on a belt conveyor, and all the operator has to do is press her foot upon a control pedal. The machine does the rest. The loaves, moving along the conveyor, pass through the slicer, which is a row of upright blades set in a frame much like an oversized egg slicer. There they are cut in quick succession, each emerging with the slices still preserving the form of the original loaf. Before the sliced loaves are ready to be put on sale, each one must be wrapped in wax paper to avoid all possibility of the bread’s becoming dry before use. The machine and its conor system are electric in operation, being driven by a small motor. At Princeton University, in the United States, the heart of a turtle detached from its body, was kept beating for thirty-six hours, and by means of an ingenious appliance recorded its own pulsations.