Separating unit
AssigneeWeber Food Technology GmbH
InventorsAndreas Dietrich, Alexander Schmitt, Carl Felix Moll, Rainer Doht, Tim Leicht, Philip Kahl
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Abstract
A separating unit for a packaging machine for packing food products is disclosed. The separating unit may be used in a molding station, a heating station, or a combined heating and molding station. The separating unit may be configured to process a material web that is moved through the packaging machine in a transport direction. The processing of the material web may be performed by a plurality of separating elements that may be of the same type or of different types to produce perforations and/or peel corner cuts in the material web.
Claims43
A separating unit for a packaging machine for packaging food products,
- wherein the separating unit is configured to process a material web, which is moved in the packaging machine along a transport direction, by a plurality of separating elements of a same type or of different types,
- wherein the separating unit defines:
- a separating plane that is in parallel with the material web during operation, a working direction perpendicular to the separating plane, and
- a working width that is in parallel with the separating plane and perpendicular to the transport direction and that corresponds to the width of a respective material web, and
- wherein the separating unit comprises a plurality of separate assemblies, that are arranged above one another in the working direction, the plurality of separate assemblies including:
- a base part;
- a support frame that is fastened to the base part and having a first side facing away from the base part the separating plane is disposed;
- at least one holding plate between the base part and the support frame that is movably supported at or in the support frame in the working direction and having a second side facing away from the base part with at least one separating element projecting in the working direction is attached,
- wherein the support frame is provided with apertures for the plurality of separating elements;
- and
- at least one pressure plate between the at least one holding plate and the base part that acts as a drive for the at least one holding plate,
- wherein the at least one pressure plate can be acted on by compressed air connectable to the separating unit, and
- wherein the at least one pressure plate is configured to adjust the at least one holding plate between a passive position with at least one of the plurality of separating elements retracted into the apertures of the support frame and an active position with at least one of the plurality of separating elements extended out of the apertures and through the separating plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.