Slicing machine
AssigneeMultivac Sepp Haggenmueller SE & Co. KG
InventorJochen ERTL
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Abstract
In order to be able to reduce the number of required drive units in a multi-track slicing machine, in particular a multi-track slicer, for slicing a plurality of calibers simultaneously into slices, according to the invention second driven product guides for the, in particular all, tracks can only be driven together and have a freewheel unit acting in the feeding direction of the calibers.
Claims14
A multi-track slicing machine, in particular multi-track slicer, for slicing a plurality of calibers simultaneously into slices, comprising:
- a cutting unit,
- a multi-track feed unit for feeding a plurality of calibers side by side along a feeding direction to the cutting unit
- a first driven product guide per track at the front end of each track,
- the first driven product guide per track being separately and independently drivable for each track,
- a second driven product guide per track at the front end of each track, which is arranged opposite to the driven first product guide per track in relation to the calibers
- a control for controlling moving parts of the slicing machine,
- wherein
- the second driven product guide for the, in particular all, tracks can only be driven together, and
- the second driven product guide has a freewheel unit acting in the feeding direction of the calibers.
A method for slicing a plurality of calibers simultaneously in slices by means of a multi-track slicing machine, in particular a multi-track slicer, with
- a first driven product guide per track, and
- a second driven product guide per track opposite to the first driven product guide per track with respect to the calibers,
- wherein
- at least in slicing operation, the first and second product guides of at least two tracks are each driven at a different feed speed from one another in the feeding direction,
- wherein
- the first driven product guides of the, preferably all, tracks are each driven separately in the feeding direction in a controlled manner, and
- a drive unit, in particular a single one, provided for the second driven product guides of the, preferably all, tracks is operated in the feeding direction at a speed which corresponds to the feed speed of the track moving fastest in the feeding direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.