Method for determining the content of predetermined ingredients with stochastic distribution in goods which are of a solid and nonhomogeneous consistency
AssigneeMaqurit Gefrierschneider GmbH
InventorsJürgen Hager, Walter Vieth, Dino Vieth
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for determining the content of predetermined ingredients in products (3) of solid and nonhomogeneous consistency, preferably foodstuffs, in which a measuring head is guided with its front face over an outer surface of the product in a sliding manner while in continuous and direct contact with the surface.
Claims13
A method for determining content of predetermined ingredients with stochastic distribution in a sliceable food products (3) of solid and nonhomogeneous consistency, during incremental size reduction of said product by means of a knife assembly, in which a light beam emanating from a measuring head (16) of a light guide system (17, 8) is beamed into the product (3), and the light reflected from the product (3) and into the measuring head (16) is spectrometrically analyzed and evaluated, and in which the measuring head (16), which is coupled to the movement of the knife assembly, is guided, with its front face and in a sliding fashion, over an outer surface of the product
- under direct surface contact,
- under a predetermined contact pressure, and
- at a predetermined relative speed.
Device for determining content of a sliceable food product, said device comprising a take-up device (2, 4) for the product (3) and a measuring head bracket (15) joined to a measuring head (16) and movable relative to the product (3) and coupled to a cutting assembly, and in which a front area of the measuring head (16) borders flush and seamless on a plane (20) of the measuring head bracket (15) which faces the product (3), and a pressure device (2, 14, 14a) which presses the product (3) against the movable measuring head bracket (15).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.