Filling a food product into container on a slat conveyor
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsSteffen Dose, Jean-Michel Christophe Marchon
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Abstract
The invention relates to the filling of a frozen dessert product in a container, by performing the steps of: arranging at least one container to be filled on a slat conveyor, moving the container on the slat conveyor towards a dispensing nozzle, vertically displacing at least one slat supporting the container, and horizontally displacing the slat supporting the container in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction of the slat conveyor, while dispensing the product from the dispensing nozzle into the container.
Claims13
A method for filling a product in a container, the method comprising the steps of:
- arranging at least one container to be filled on at least one slat of a step-wise driven slat conveyor;
- moving the container on the slat conveyor towards a dispensing nozzle;
- vertically displacing at least one slat supporting the container using a gripper element with protruding portions which laterally engage recessions in the side surfaces of the slat;
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- manipulating the at least one slat supporting the container in a translational degree-of-freedom different from a transport direction of the slat conveyor using the gripper element while dispensing the product from the dispensing nozzle into the container.
A method for filling a product in a container, the method comprising the steps of:
- arranging at least one container to be filled on at least one slat of a step-wise driven slat conveyor;
- moving the container on the slat conveyor towards a dispensing nozzle;
- separating the at least one slat from the transport chains of the slat conveyor;
- vertically displacing at least one slat supporting the container using a gripper element with protruding portions which laterally engage recessions in the side surfaces of the slat;
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- manipulating the at least one slat supporting the container in a translational degree-of-freedom different from a transport direction of the slat conveyor using the gripper element while dispensing the product from the dispensing nozzle into the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.