Food processing apparatus and method for sequentially scanning food products
AssigneeWeber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
InventorIngo Rother
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a food processing apparatus with a scanner with a scanning unit for determining properties of a food product, in particular a food bar, with at least two substantially parallel separately drivable conveyor tracks for supplying the food products to the scanner, and with a control unit for controlling the drive of the conveyor tracks. According to the disclosure, the control unit is adapted to separately control the drive of the conveyor tracks to convey at least one food product of a first conveyor track and at least one food product of a further conveyor track sequentially through a scanning area of the scanner. The disclosure further relates to a method for scanning food products.
Claims18
A method for scanning food products with a scanner, the method comprising:
- arranging a first food product on a first conveyor arrangement;
- arranging a second food product on a second conveyor arrangement;
- conveying h first food product with h first conveyor arrangement through a scanning area of the scanner;
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- conveying the second food product with the second conveyor arrangement through the scanning area of the scanner after the first food product has been conveyed through the scanning area, wherein the second conveyor arrangement is disposed alongside of the first conveyor arrangement, and the first and second conveyor arrangements extend through the scanning area simultaneously;
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- controlling the first and second conveyor arrangements with a control unit so that the first food product conveyed with the first conveyor arrangement is moved through the scanning area while the second food product conveyed with the second conveyor arrangement is not moved past a pre-scanning position upstream of the scanning area, and so that the second food product conveyed with the second conveyor arrangement is held at the pre-scanning position when the first food product conveyed with the first conveyor arrangement is being moved through the scanning area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.