US 2025/0050527 A1Published application

Cutting food products

AssigneeTextor Maschinenbau GmbH

InventorJörg Schmeiser

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Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to a high-performance slicer, having a working region which includes a cutting region and a transport region having a product feed, wherein the product feed supplies products to be sliced to the cutting region on one track or on multiple tracks and a cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or revolving manner, in a cutting plane at the end of the cutting region; and having a contactlessly working scanning device for detecting at least some of the outer contour of the products to be sliced, wherein the scanning device includes at least one compact sensor arranged in the working region for contour detection.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A system for determining outer profiles of food products, comprising:

a food slicing apparatus, comprising:
a slicing blade configured to slice a food product into a plurality of food slices;
and
a transport region located upstream of the slicing blade and comprising:
a plurality of conveyors configured to transport the food product to the slicing blade;
a first profile scanner arranged proximate the plurality of conveyors;
and
a second profile scanner arranged proximate the plurality of conveyors,
wherein the first profile scanner and the second profile scanner are configured to jointly detect at least a portion of an outer profile of the food product in a region of transition between a first conveyor of the plurality of conveyors and a second conveyor of the plurality of conveyors, and
wherein the first profile scanner is at least one of:
oriented oppositely with respect to the second profile scanner such that the first profile scanner and the second profile scanner detect the portion of the outer profile of the food product from different directions, or
arranged at a different position from the second profile scanner around a transport direction of the food product, or
is offset from the second profile scanner such that at least one of the first profile scanner or the second profile scanner obliquely scans the food product.

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Facts

Application: 18/925,749Filed 24 Oct 2024
Priority: DE 102016101753.11 Feb 2016
Published: 13 Feb 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

B26D 5/34
Having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier: scanning being effected by a photosensitive device
B26D 5/007
Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by…
B26D 5/32
Having the cutting member controlled by scanning a record carrier: with the record carrier formed by the work itself
B26D 2210/02
Machines or methods used for cutting special materials: for cutting food products, e.g. food slicers

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Application16/072,378Continuation · filed 24 Oct 2018
Application18/925,749Continuation
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