Safety illumination for a slicing machine
AssigneeBizerba GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsRalf Steinhilber, Holger Klingler, Rainer Seemann, Michael Heck, Markus Dodmer
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Abstract
A slicing machine for cutting slices of a food product includes a machine housing including a circular blade configured to rotate in a cutting plane, a stop plate configured to be move, by an adjustment device, perpendicular to the cutting plane, a carriage mounted such that it is movable parallel to the cutting plane, and a machine status display for displaying an actual status of the slicing machine.
Claims15
A slicing machine for cutting slices of a food product, comprising:
- a machine housing including a circular blade configured to rotate in a cutting plane;
- a stop plate configured to be move, by an adjustment device, perpendicular to the cutting plane;
- a carriage mounted such that it is movable parallel to the cutting plane;
- and a machine status display for displaying an actual status of the slicing machine.
A method for operating a safety illumination display for a slicing machine for cutting slices of a food product, the method comprising:
- determining a state of a circular blade;
- determining a state of a stop plate;
- generating a machine status value depending on the state of the circular blade and the state of the stop plate;
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- illuminating a machine status display depending on the machine status value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.