US 10,561,116 B2Granted

Cutting of a soft food mass

AssigneeHochland Natec GmbH

InventorRoland Zeuschner

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Abstract

Method and device for cutting a soft food mass, in particular for cutting machine-processed cheese, such as processed cheese or mozzarella, whereby the food mass is present as a broad food ribbon of small ribbon thickness, whereby the food ribbon is fed by means of a conveyor belt with a travel speed leading to a longitudinal cutting system, in particular in the form of a cutting roller, which cuts the food ribbon with axially arranged cutting disks into parallel longitudinal strips, whereby the direction of rotation of the longitudinal cutting system corresponds to the travel direction of the food ribbon, whereby the cutting disks in each case have blades that are provided with at least one tooth, whereby the tooth height is greater than the ribbon thickness, whereby the peripheral speed of the cutting roller is adjusted in such a way that a tooth is immersed in the food ribbon when cutting with the tips of the teeth and creates a slot of a specific slot length in the food ribbon that moves in the same direction, whereby the slot created by the subsequent tooth is adjacent to the preceding slot.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A longitudinal cutting device for cutting a food that is in the form of a flat ribbon into a number of parallel longitudinal strips comprising:

(a) a longitudinal cutting system (1, 25) comprising multiple coaxially arranged serrated cutting disks (5) mounted in a fixed relationship to each other for cutting a flat ribbon of a food into a number of parallel longitudinal strips, wherein
(1) each serrated longitudinal cutting disk (5) has at least one cutting tooth (7, 27) and
(2) the at least one cutting tooth (7, 27) of each serrated longitudinal cutting disk (5) is radially offset relative to the at least one cutting tooth (7, 27) of each next adjacent serrated longitudinal cutting disk (5) to reduce clamping of a food mass between adjacent serrated longitudinal cutting disks (5);
(b) a driving device capable of transferring rotational force to the longitudinal cutting system for rotating the longitudinal cutting system about the axis of the coaxially arranged serrated cutting disks (5);
and
(c) a conveyor, wherein the conveyor is arranged to have a travel direction parallel to the axially arranged serrated cutting disks (5) and proximal to, or in contact with, the tooth tip (8) of each serrated longitudinal disk (5) when the longitudinal cutting system (1, 25) is rotated,
wherein each serrated cutting disk (5) of the longitudinal cutting system has a cutting direction parallel to the travel direction of the conveyor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/976,834Filed 21 Dec 2015 · division
Priority: DE 10 2007 063 29527 Dec 2007
Published: US 2016/0278337 A129 Sep 2016
Granted: 18 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A01J 27/04
After-treatment of cheese; Coating of cheese: milling or recasting cheese
B26D 1/1435
Rotating about a stationary axis: for thin material, e.g. for sheets, strips or the like
B26D 2210/02
Machines or methods used for cutting special materials: for cutting food products, e.g. food slicers
Y10T 83/04
Cutting: processes

Family

PCT/EP2008/067951Parent of this division · filed 18 Dec 2008
US 2016/0278337 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Sep 2016
Application12/810,625Parent of this division
US 9,237,738 B2Parent of this division
US 2010/0275751 A1Published application
US 10,561,116 B2This patent

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