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US 11,845,577 B2Granted
Conveyor device for conveying food products
AssigneeProvisur Technologies, Inc.
InventorJürgen Bialy
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Abstract
A method of using a conveyor device is provided for conveying food products in stacks or interleaved units made of a plurality of slices of cheese or meat products. The method formats the food products in a specific product format on a plurality of parallel conveyor tracks, and fills a product gap on one of the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks incoming on the input side with a food product so that on the output side all parallel conveyor tracks are supplied with the food products.
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A method for formatting food products on a conveyor device comprising:
- a) receiving the food products in a plurality of parallel conveyor tracks, some of which include product gaps;
- b) outputting the food products into the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks in a specific product format;
- c) detecting a product supply in the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks incoming on an input side individually for each one of the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks;
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- d) filling the product gaps in the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks with food products, so that all of the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks are supplied with the food products on an output side, wherein only when an odd number of product gaps exist in one of the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks, the product gaps are also filled with food products from a product buffer in that at least one of the food products is transferred from the product buffer to the one of the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks on which an odd number of product gaps exist.
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