Slicing machine with suction unit
AssigneeMultivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
InventorsDominik Marx, Tom Stachel
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Abstract
In order to keep anticaking agent-related dead times of a slicing machine as low as possible, excess anticaking agent suspended in the air is sucked off by a suction unit so that as little as possible is deposited on parts of the machine which subsequently have to be cleaned frequently, and/or instead of a single reservoir, several different reservoirs are used, which are switchable in their connection to a spray opening to be supplied, whereby it is easy to switch from an empty to a full reservoir, while the change or refilling of the emptied reservoir can be carried out without dead time during a cutting operation.
Claims20
A slicing machine for slicing calibers into slices and forming portions therefrom, the slicing machine comprising:
- a cutting unit with a rotatable blade,
- a feed unit for feeding a caliber in a feeding direction to the cutting unit,
- a discharge conveyor unit for conveying in a transport direction and comprising at least one discharge conveyor,
- a spray unit with at least one spray opening for applying a liquid or powdery anticaking agent to a main surface of a slice produced from the caliber, or a slice to be produced from the caliber, and
- a control for controlling moving parts of the slicing machine,
- wherein
- the slicing machine comprises a suction unit with at least one suction opening for sucking off anticaking agent suspended in the air,
- and/or
- the slicing machine comprises a supply of anticaking agent for supplying the at least one spray opening, and the supply of anticaking agent comprises a plurality of switchable and independently replaceable reservoirs for anticaking agent.
A method of operating a slicing machine, including
- a spray unit with at least one spray opening for applying anticaking agent to a main surface of a future or already produced slice,
- wherein the method comprises:
- during a slicing operation
- automatically sucking off anticaking agent suspended in the air,
- and/or
- switching over between a plurality of reservoirs with a same anticaking agent in an automatically controlled manner as required.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.