US 2003/0195099 A1 · Method, arrangement, device and magazine for automatic changing of knife units of a knife ring of a knife ring slicing device

Abstract

In a method and device for automatically exchanging knife units of a knife ring slicing device, the knife changing magazine is moved relative to the knife ring into a knife changing position in which the knife receptacles of the knife changing magazine are axially aligned with the knife receptacles of the knife ring. The worn knives of the knife ring are moved axially into empty knife receptacles of the knife changing magazine. A relative movement between the knife changing magazine and the knife ring is carried out until the knife changing magazine and the knife ring are again in a knife changing position in which the knife receptacles with resharpened knife units are aligned with the knife receptacles in the knife ring. The resharpened knife units are introduced in the opposite axial direction into the knife receptacles of the knife ring from which the worn knife units had been removed.

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Dependent claims

A method for automatically exchanging knife units of a knife ring of a knife ring slicing device, the method comprising the steps of:

a) providing a knife ring with first knife receptacles;
b) providing a knife changing magazine with second knife receptacles;
c) moving the knife changing magazine relative to the knife ring into a first knife changing position, wherein in the first knife changing position at least some of the second knife receptacles of the knife changing magazine are axially aligned with at least some of the first knife receptacles of the knife ring;
d) releasing worn knife units arranged in the first knife receptacles from the knife ring;
e) moving the knife units in a first axial direction out of the knife ring into empty ones of the second knife receptacles within the knife changing magazine;
f) carrying out a relative movement between the knife changing magazine and the knife ring until the knife changing magazine and the knife ring are in a second knife changing position in which the second knife receptacles provided with resharpened-knife units are aligned with the first knife receptacles in the knife ring from which the knife units have been removed in the step e);
and
g) introducing the resharpened knife units in a second axial direction opposite the first axial direction into the first knife receptacles of the knife ring from which the knife units have been removed in the step e).

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Method, arrangement, device and magazine for automatic changing of knife units of a knife ring of a knife ring slicing device

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Method, arrangement, device and magazine for automatic changing of knife units of a knife ring of a knife ring slicing device

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Abstract

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