Cutting pieces out of a mass of cheese
AssigneeHochland SE
InventorsAndreas Biggel, Roland Zeuschner
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method for cutting pieces having a predefined length, i.e. sticks, out of a mass of cheese, in which a cheese bar is first cut into parallel longitudinal strips while being conveyed on a belt conveyer using a longitudinal cutting device. The longitudinal strips are then cut into pieces using a transverse cutting device having a transverse cutting knife, which is conveyed along with the cheese bar during the transverse cutting process.
Claims11
Method for the cutting of pieces of predetermined length (“sticks”) from a cheese mass, wherein the cheese mass is shaped in a continuous process to a wide cheese bar of predetermined thickness, wherein the cheese bar is fed to a longitudinal cutting apparatus via a conveyor belt with conveying speed, wherein the cheese bar is cut by the longitudinal cutting apparatus initially in longitudinal strips lying parallel next to one another, wherein the longitudinal strips lying parallel next to one another on the conveyor belt are cut into pieces by a transverse cutting device, wherein the transverse cutting device has a transverse cutting knife, bridging part of the cheese bar such that the edges of the cheese bar remain uncut, the transverse cutting knife is entrained with the cheese bar at the conveying speed during the transverse cutting and the cheese pieces created via the longitudinal cutting and the transverse cutting are conveyed away,
- wherein the uncut edge strips of the cheese bar remaining after creating the cheese pieces are removed from the conveyor belt and conveyed away for separate further processing.
Device for the cutting of pieces of predetermined length from a cheese mass comprising (a) a conveyor belt suitable for conveying a cheese bar at a conveying speed;
- and (b) a longitudinal cutting apparatus suitable for cutting a cheese bar into parallel strips and (c) a transverse cutting device suitable for cutting parallel cheese strips into pieces wherein the transverse cutting device is located downstream in the conveying direction from the longitudinal cutting apparatus and comprises a transverse cutting knife and a drive, wherein the drive is operatively connected with the transverse cutting knife for moving the transverse cutting knife such that the movement of the transverse cutting knife has one component along the conveying direction (“x axis”) and one component vertical thereto in the cutting direction (“z axis”) and the transverse cutting knife is capable of bending in a cutting direction vertical to the conveying direction, wherein the transverse cutting device further comprises an adjustment apparatus operatively connected with the transverse cutting knife which is suitable for setting bending of the transverse cutting knife in the cutting direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.