System and process for inserting a skewer into a food product and for spirally cutting said food product
AssigneeLuttjehuizen Holding B.V.
InventorsRobert Luttjehuizen, Karel Van Der Leegte
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Abstract
The invention relates to a system and process for producing a spiral food product on a skewer, such as twister potato. The system thereto comprising a clamping element for clamping the food product, a guiding structure for guiding a skewer towards the centre region of the clamped food product, a pusher for pushing the skewer away from the guiding structure such that the skewer pierces the food product and a rotatable knife for cutting the food product in a spiral manner.
Claims20
A system for inserting a skewer into a food product and for spirally cutting said food product, the system comprising:
- at least one clamping element for clampingly engaging at least one food product in a predetermined position;
- at least one guiding structure for guiding a skewer towards the centre region of the clamped food product;
- at least one pusher for pushing the skewer away from the guiding structure such that the skewer pierces the food product;
- at least one rotatable knife for cutting the food product;
- and
- at least one gripper for gripping at least part of a distal end of the skewer;
- wherein the rotatable knife and the gripper are mutually displaceable such that the food product can be cut in a spiral configuration whilst increasing the mutual distance between the rotatable knife and the gripper causes that the spirally cut food product can be divided over the skewer.
Process for inserting a skewer into a food product and for spiral cutting said food product, process comprising the steps of:
- clampingly engaging at least one food product by means of a clamping element;
- outlining at least one skewer with respect to the clamped food product by means of a guiding structure;
- pushing the skewer away from the guiding element such that the skewer pierces the food product;
- gripping a distal end of the skewer, in particular the distal end which is pierced through the food product by means of a gripper;
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- mutually displacing the gripper and a rotatable knife, in particular in a direction away from each other, such that the food product is cut in a spiral configuration whilst increasing the mutual distance between the rotatable knife and the gripper causes that the spirally cut food product is divided over the skewer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.