Bread cutting machine with integrated bagging aid, and operating method

2:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, comprising an electronic control device, which is configured to cause the unsliced loaf to be transported from the receiving chute into the feed chute past the slicing blade, which has been retracted out of the blade gap, and then to cause the loaf that is to be sliced to be transported back from the feed chute into the receiving chute, the slicing blade being inserted into and retracted out of the blade gap during the return transportation in such a way that the loaf is sliced into parallel slices in the process.

3:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein the receiving chute is formed by two sheet metal portions that adjoin each other at an angle and together are L-shaped in cross section.

4:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein, in parallel with the slicing plane, the receiving chute is, at its end facing the feed chute, almost as wide as the feed chute in that region.

5:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein a connecting axis between the feed chute and the receiving chute is arranged in a manner inclined with respect to the vertical.

6:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein the blade arm is configured to move the slicing blade on a curve.

7:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein through-slots are arranged in the feed chute for breadcrumbs to fall through.

8:

• The bread slicer according to claim 7, wherein a crumb compartment, having a deflector sheet, is arranged below the through-slots in the feed chute.

9:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, comprising an advancing plate having a gripper for holding the loaf, the advancing plate being configured to travel from one end of the feed chute remote from the receiving chute as far as over the blade gap and back again, and on which the loaf introduced into the feed chute rests by its end face.

10:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein the slicing blade, when in a non-activated state outside of the blade gap, is arranged in the bread slicer so as to be impossible to touch from outside of the cover of the slicer housing.

11:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein the receiving chute is arranged such that, before the slicing process, an unsliced loaf can be placed onto the cantilevered portion by a user, and in that, after the slicing process, the slices of the sliced loaf can be removed from the cantilevered portion by the user, after having pulled a bag-like packaging means thereover.

12:

• The bread slicer according to claim 2, wherein the bread slicer has a shorter side and a longer side, the cantilevered portion and an input device for the electronic control device being accessible to a user from the shorter side of the bread slicer.

13:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein the cover of the slicer housing is movable in a rotational motion on a guide rail.

14:

• The bread slicer according to claim 1, wherein a sensor for switching off the bread slicer, in particular the slicing blade, in an emergency is present.