Slicing machine
AssigneeBizerba-Werke Wilhelm Kraut GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsHerbert Etter, Klaus Haid, Jurgen Schwellbach, Rolf Veit
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Abstract
In a machine for slicing food such as meat, sausage, cheese or the like comprising a conveying device for carrying the slices of food cut off by a rotating blade to a deposit area and a knocking-off mechanism for transferring the slices from the conveying device to the deposit area, the conveying device is driven by an independent motor of its own. The position of a slide carrying the food to be cut can be sensed by sensing means, and a follow-up control device which is connected, on the one hand, to the sensing means, and, on the other hand, to a drive motor and its encoder ensures synchronous follow-up of the conveying device in dependence upon the position of the slide.
Claims13
A slicing machine for slicing food such as meat, sausage or cheese, said machine comprising:
- a machine frame;
- a blade mounted on said machine frame for slicing the food;
- first motor means for driving said blade;
- a slide slidingly displaceable along a course on said machine frame for accommodating and feeding said food to said blade;
- conveyor means, positioned to receive the slices cut by said blade, for carrying said slices to a knocking-off area;
- knocking-off means for transferring the slices from said conveyor means at said knocking-off to a deposit area;
- second motor means for driving said conveyor means;
- means for sensing the positions of said slide as said slide moves along said course;
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- control means, coupled to receive from the sensing means position data corresponding to the positions of said slide as said slide moves along said course and coupled to said second motor means, for controlling said second motor means to move said conveyor means in synchronism with said slide irrespective of a size of said food.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.