Apparatus for the production of foods with a non-contact input device

Apparatus for food production, with a control device which is connected to an input device for operating said apparatus, wherein said input device is configured as a non-contact input device,

• wherein said input device has a projector for generating a virtual user interface projected in space,
• wherein said projector has a display as image source, and a plate which is configured such that it focuses diffusely emitted light rays from the image source to form said virtual user interface image,
• wherein said control device has at least one interface for sending changeable video signals to said display,
• wherein said virtual user interface is positioned in the same plane and at the same position as an infrared radiation field generated by a sensor device, wherein the infrared radiation field generated by the sensor device comprises infrared rays, and wherein the sensor device is configured to detect a broken beam path of the infrared rays at the virtual user interface projected in space to determine a user input,
• wherein an angle of inclination of said virtual user interface is changeable relative to a horizontal plane and/or can be rotated about a vertical axis, and
• wherein the angle of inclination is changeable via one or more of:
• a pivotable common support to which the projector and the sensor device are mounted,
• a movement of beam guiding elements including lenses and/or mirrors, and
• a motion mechanism which controls the inclination of projector relative to the horizontal plane and/or relative to a vertical plane wherein the sensor device is also moved accordingly synchronously by the same motion mechanism or a separate motion mechanism.

Apparatus for food production, with a control device which is connected to an input device for operating said apparatus, wherein said input device is configured as a non-contact input device,

• wherein said input device has a projector for generating a virtual user interface projected in space,
• wherein said projector has a display as image source, and a plate which is configured such that it focuses diffusely emitted light rays from the image source to form said virtual user interface image,
• wherein said control device has at least one interface for sending changeable video signals to said display,
• wherein said virtual user interface is positioned in the same plane and at the same position as an infrared radiation field generated by a sensor device, wherein the infrared radiation field generated by the sensor device comprises infrared rays, and wherein the sensor device is configured to detect a broken beam path of the infrared rays at the virtual user interface projected in space to determine a user input,
• wherein said apparatus is a filling machine with at least a suspension device, and
• wherein said filling machine is configured such that said suspension device has the non-contact input device which is connected to said control device of said filling machine, wherein a smoking stick, which has to be taken off, can move through an image plane of the virtual user interface.