A food singulator apparatus
AssigneesMarel A/S, Marel Meat B.V.
InventorsFrank-Willem Johan Martin VAN HAPPEN, Niels HUNDTOFTE, Lars Riis JENSEN
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Abstract
A food singulator apparatus is configured to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from a food product conveyed by a conveyor apparatus. The apparatus includes an engagement member for engaging with a front side of the food product and temporarily halt the food product while cutting by a cutting device a front food slice of the food product, and a takeaway device for downwardly sliding the front food slice from the remaining part of the food product and slide it downwards and under the takeaway device where the food slice is subsequently received as an individual food slice.
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A food singulator apparatus configured to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from a food product conveyed by a conveyor apparatus, comprising:
- an engagement member for engaging with a front side of the food product and temporarily halting the food product while cutting by a cutting device arranged to cut at least one food slice of the food product, and
- a takeaway device for downwardly sliding the at least one food slice from the remaining part of the food product and sliding it downwards and under the takeaway device where the at least one food slice is subsequently received and conveyed as at least one food slice.
A method to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from a food product conveyed by a conveyor apparatus, comprising:
- engaging with a front side of the food product, by an engagement member, and temporarily halting the food product while cutting by a cutting device arranged to cut at least one food slice of the food product, and
- downwardly sliding, by a takeaway device, the at least one food slice from the remaining part of the food product and sliding it downwards and under the takeaway device where the at least one food slice is subsequently received and conveyed as at least one food slice.
A system for cutting incoming food objects into slices, comprising:
- a conveyor for conveying food products to be cut,
- an image device for capturing image data of the incoming food objects,
- a control unit, and
- a food singulator apparatus operated by the control unit by using the image data, wherein the food singulator apparatus is configured to generate a sequence of spaced apart food slices from the food products, where the food singulator comprises:
- an engagement member for, according to instructions from the control unit, engaging with a front side of a food product and temporarily halting the food product while a cutting device cuts at least one food slice of the food product, and
- a takeaway device for downwardly sliding the at least one food slice from a remaining part of the food product and under the takeaway device where the at least one food slice is subsequently received and conveyed as at least one food slice.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.