Method for cutting a loaf-shaped food using a cutting machine
OwnerUwe Reifenhaeuserinventor
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Abstract
In a method for cutting a loaf-shaped food, a loaf of the food is advanced toward a cutting device by a feed apparatus and the loaf is cut into slices, strips or cubes by said cutting device, which includes that the loaf is fixed during the feed movement by a vacuum gripper that is advanced together with the loaf; a negative pressure is generated within an interior of a contact element of the vacuum gripper and acts upon a fixing region of the surface of the loaf in a suction region of the contact element, in order to prevent hygienic problems associated with vacuum pumps, the negative pressure is generated by a piston-cylinder unit, the piston of which defines the interior of the contact element.
Claims4
A method for cutting a loaf-shaped food, comprising the steps of:
- advancing a food loaf toward a cut off knife by a feed apparatus, the feed apparatus including a vacuum gripper, and the advancing of the food loaf including advancing the vacuum gripper;
- cutting the food loaf into slices, strips or cubes by the cut off knife;
- fixing the food loaf to the vacuum gripper during the advancing of the food loaf, wherein the fixing of the food loaf comprises generating a negative pressure within an interior of a contact element of the vacuum gripper and contacting at least one fixing region of the surface of the food loaf with at least one suction region of the contact element,
- wherein the negative pressure is generated by at least one piston-cylinder unit whose piston and cylinder define the interior of the contact element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.