Device with Gripping Arm for Composing Satays
AssigneeSMO bvba
InventorSander Mollet
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a device for composing a series of satays, being a series of food elements pierced by a skewer, comprising: a food surface for supporting food elements; at least one skewer holder, the skewer holder being provided with at least one skewer holder element suitable for temporarily gripping a skewer, the device comprising the following: a gripping arm with at least one food gripper, configured to pick up food elements from the food surface with the food gripper and to thread them onto a skewer in the skewer holder element.
Claims15
Device for composing a series of satays (100), being a series of food elements pierced by a skewer (410, 412), comprising:
- a. a food surface (500, 500′) for supporting food elements;
- b. at least one skewer holder (400), the skewer holder being provided with at least
- one skewer holder element (408, 414) suitable for temporarily gripping a skewer, wherein the device:
- c. comprises a gripping arm (200) with at least one food gripper (210, 230), configured to pick up food elements from the food surface with the food gripper and to thread them onto a skewer in the skewer holder element.
Method for composing a series of satays, comprising the following steps:
- (i) providing food elements;
- (ii) providing a skewer with at least one free skewer end;
- (iii) picking up a food element and transporting the food element to the free skewer end, and
- (iv) threading the picked-up food element onto the skewer via the free skewer end,
- wherein the threading of the food element at the free skewer end is performed by a gripping arm (200) with a food holder (210, 230).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.