Method for allocating product carriers and a food processing device
AssigneeWeber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach
InventorIngo Rother
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method for allocating product carriers, in particular L-boards, to certain types of product portions of a food product, in particular stacks of slices of a food product. During processing of the product portions, at least two different product carriers are available, of which a specific product carrier is respectively combined with the product portion in dependency of a property of a product portion. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a food processing device.
Claims15
A method for allocating product carriers to certain types of product portions of a food product, wherein:
- during processing of said product portions, at least two different product carriers are available, of which a certain product carrier is respectively combined with a product portion in dependency of a property of said product portion, said product portions transported on a conveyor device and said different product carriers are provided at a location along said conveyor device and in dependency of said property of said respective product portion, a certain product carrier is disposed at said location from below underneath said product portion and further transported with said product portion.
A food processing device for product portions of a food product comprising a combining apparatus, in which said product portions are combined with product carriers, comprising:
- a product carrier feeder system being designed to respectively combine a certain product carrier of at least two different types of product carriers with said product portion in dependency of a property of said product portions, said food processing device further including a conveyer device being adapted to transport said product portions sequentially in a conveying direction, said product carrier feeder system having only one product carrier feeder being adapted to provide different product carriers from different supplies of product carriers in a product carrier storage, and designed to provide a product carrier, which is combined with a product portion, in dependency of said property of said product portion when the product portion respectively passes said product carrier feeder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.