Slicer and method for its layout
AssigneeMultivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
InventorsDominic KOCH, Manfred ACHENBACH, Winfried HOERBERG
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Abstract
In order to avoid a gap on both sides of a blade exit point, if an outer radius of a product caliber is smaller than an inner radius of a product opening in a cutting frame at this point, a contour of the cutting frame in this blade exit area is given a radius of curvature as small as the smallest product caliber to be expected.
Claims19
A slicer for slicing at least two product calibers simultaneously into slices, wherein the product calibers can have a qualitatively identical product contour, surfaces of which, as well as their radii of curvature in their non-straight regions, vary between a minimum value and a maximum value, the slicer comprising:
- a cutting frame with at least two product openings, whose inner contours lying perpendicular to an axial direction have a radius of curvature at least in some areas,
- a cutting unit with a blade, which is movable in a transverse direction to the axial direction directly in front of the cutting frame for cutting off one slice each,
- wherein the blade, viewed in the axial direction, is configured to leave the contours of the front product openings on the blade side, in each case at a blade exit point,
- wherein
- the inner contour of each of the product openings of the cutting frame at least in a blade exit area of the inner contour has a radius of curvature of the blade exit region area which deviates from the radius of curvature of the product contour of the smallest possible product caliber or of an internally specified lower limit in the blade exit region by a difference of at most +/−5%,
- wherein the blade exit point lies in the blade exit area.
A method for slicing at least two product calibers simultaneously into slices with a slicer including a cutting frame with product openings, wherein
- the product calibers are able to have a qualitatively identical product contour, surfaces of which, as well as radii of curvature thereof, may vary in non-straight regions of the product contour between a minimum value and a maximum value,
- the method comprising slicing the product calibers with a blade of the slicer, wherein
- a radius of curvature of an inner contour of each of the product openings of the cutting frame in a blade exit area of the inner contour is selected in such a way that it deviates by a difference of at most +/−5% from the radius of curvature of the product contour of the smallest possible product caliber or an internally specified lower limit in the blade exit area.
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