Method and system for feeding a plurality of bakery products
AssigneeSoremartec S.A.
InventorMarco MOLLO
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Abstract
A method for feeding food products, in particular bakery products, along a production line includes the steps of, in at least one accumulation line, accumulating the products coming from a first operational station of the production line, in the form of at least one longitudinal row of products in mutual contact, in at least one accumulation column, accumulating the products coming from said accumulation line, in the form of at least one stack of products, and transferring the products of said row of products from said accumulation line to said accumulation column, via a singulating device, to determine a discontinuity between said row of products, contained in said accumulation line, and said stack of products, contained in said accumulation column.
Claims16
A method for feeding food products along a production line, said method comprising the steps of:
- in at least one accumulation line extending along a first section (K1) of a feeding path (K), accumulating the food products coming from a first operational station of the production line in the form of at least one longitudinal row of products in mutual contact, the at least one longitudinal row of products extending along said first section (K1) of said feeding path (K), and
- advancing the products of said at least one longitudinal row of products along said first section (K1), so as to keep said products in contact with each other and up to an end position (P1) of said accumulation line;
- in at least one accumulation column, accumulating the products coming from said accumulation line in the form of at least one stack of products, and
- causing the products of said at least one stack of products to descend along said accumulation column so as to bring, one after the other, the products of said at least one stack of products to an extraction position (P2),
- extracting from said at least one stack of products, one after the other, the products of said at least one stack of products that individually reach said extraction position (P2), and transferring the extracted products onto a conveyor for feeding the products to a second operational station of the production line;
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- via at least one singulating device, transferring the products of said at least one longitudinal row of products from said accumulation line to said accumulation column, according to a transfer phase in which the product in said end position (P1) is separated from said at least one longitudinal row of products and is then deposited individually inside said accumulation column, so as to determine a discontinuity between said at least one longitudinal row of products contained in said accumulation line (20) and said at least one stack of products contained in said accumulation column.
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