EP0772403A1 - Procede et systeme de manipulation de denrees alimentaires tranchees en vue de leur conditionnement apres avoir ete pesees et placees de maniere ordonnee - Google Patents

Procede et systeme de manipulation de denrees alimentaires tranchees en vue de leur conditionnement apres avoir ete pesees et placees de maniere ordonnee

Info

Publication number
EP0772403A1
EP0772403A1 EP95912152A EP95912152A EP0772403A1 EP 0772403 A1 EP0772403 A1 EP 0772403A1 EP 95912152 A EP95912152 A EP 95912152A EP 95912152 A EP95912152 A EP 95912152A EP 0772403 A1 EP0772403 A1 EP 0772403A1
Authority
EP
European Patent Office
Prior art keywords
products
slices
stations
receiver
conveyor
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
EP95912152A
Other languages
German (de)
English (en)
Other versions
EP0772403B1 (fr
Inventor
Svend Baekhoej Jensen
Bent Tirsvad
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Scanvaegt AS
Original Assignee
Scanvaegt AS
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Scanvaegt AS filed Critical Scanvaegt AS
Publication of EP0772403A1 publication Critical patent/EP0772403A1/fr
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of EP0772403B1 publication Critical patent/EP0772403B1/fr
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Classifications

    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/16—Sorting according to weight
    • B07C5/18—Sorting according to weight using a single stationary weighing mechanism
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00—Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/36—Sorting apparatus characterised by the means used for distribution
    • B07C5/38—Collecting or arranging articles in groups
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/06—Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products
    • B65B25/061—Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products of fish

Definitions

  • a method and a system for handling sliced foodstuff products for packaging in weighed and neatly arranged condition A method and a system for handling sliced foodstuff products for packaging in weighed and neatly arranged condition.
  • the present invention relates to a method of build ⁇ ing up portions of foodstuff objects orderly arranged in or on package members such as trays or plates to form weight determined portions ready for final packaging, in particular slices of salmon or of other more or less precious materials.
  • Another practice is to arrange the slices manually on the plates, whereby it is possible to aim at a fixed weight and thus a fixed price by selecting exposed sli ⁇ ces of appropriate size and number, but this, of course, is rather laborious.
  • the present invention is based on the consideration that it is possible, for one thing, to adapt a known distribution technique to automatize the selection of slices for collection of portions of a desired weight, and, for another thing, to adapt this technique so as to
  • TIT TESkEET enable a delivery of the slices or the slice groups directly or practically directly to the single package plates or trays, such that the manual work can be redu ⁇ ced to a neat rearranging of the slices on the plates.
  • the known technique here referred to is the one practiced by grader or batching systems comprising a feeder conveyor for supplying the objects one by one to a dynamic weighing unit that will weigh the single ob ⁇ jects and store the weighing results in a memory and calculating unit. Thereafter the objects are brought further along a sorter conveyor having at one or both sides a row of receiver stations, while also being equipped with selectively actuatable diverter means operable by said memory unit to divert the single ob ⁇ jects into selected receiver stations so as to build up therein collected portions of objects amounting to some predetermined total weight.
  • the memorizing/calculating/- controlling unit serves to direct each object into the receiver station best fitted for receiving just that object in order to end up with a complete portion of the prescribed weight, see e.g. GB-2, 116,732.
  • a still more important adaptation is arranged for by con ⁇ verting the receiver stations from being just 'receiving stations', in which the single object portions may be collected in a container from which the portions can be let out for further processing in that there is arran ⁇ ged, at each receiver station, means for supporting a package plate or tray member as referred to.
  • the objects may not be delivered particularly neatly to the single receiver stations, but an operator's job will be reduced to provide a neat arrangement of the final group of objects at each single package member, without caring about the weight of the portions. Thereby the operators
  • the grading technique has been developed so as to be able to operate at rela ⁇ tively high speed, handling e.g. some 120 objects per minute, and of course it is desirable to actually make use of such a high speed operation.
  • this im ⁇ plies that the objects are to be transferred from the sorter conveyor to the receiving stations in a very fast manner, which is well possible in connection with ob ⁇ jects conventionally handled by this technique, e.g. chickens of fishes or large pieces thereof.
  • the said diverter means usually consist of a wing or blade mem ⁇ ber, which, when operationally selected, is swung from a position along one side of the conveyor to a position in which it projects across the conveyor belt, obliquely downstream of the belt and towards the receiver station at the opposite side of the belt.
  • the objects will then be caused to slide or roll along the oblique wing out to the receiver station by the driving action of the moved belt, but in high speed systems this will not be the general picture of the operation.
  • the wings be actuated so rapidly that they will operate in quite a different manner, viz. by imparting to the objects a dynamic throw-out action, whereby the objects are thrown out to the respective receiver stations.
  • These actions may be performed in two steps, viz. first collecting the slices into a well confined group on the packing plate without much or any rearranging, then transferring the plate to a nearby working plate in the receiver station to make the latter reoperative without delay, and then making the rearranging of the slices on the plate.
  • a further possibility could be to collect the slice group on a rigid bottom plate end cause the entire group to be transferred to the packing plate, e.g. in the said working position thereof, where ⁇ by the packing plates themselves should not be present in the very receiver means of the stations.
  • the conventional diverter wings can be modified to better suit the present inven ⁇ tion. They may well be suited to divert even rather thin slices, but they affect the slices in different ways, causing some slices to be merely scraped or thrown pff the belt, while other slices are consecutively turned when hit by the vertical side wall of the wing, such that they are thrown out with their orientation changed.
  • the diverter wings are preferably profiled as stated in claim 6, as explained in more detail below. All according to the nature of the slices it may be necessary to seek to adapt the receiving stations for an easy running of the operation. At one extreme, viz. if the slices are hard frozen, they will simply be pushed or thrown off the grader belt, typically with a force depending on whether they are hit by a diverter wing portion having a higher or lower velocity, i.e. whether hit by e.g.
  • the wing tip or a middle wing portion when the slices are hard and non-sticky, this will not make any big difference, because the slices may be thrown against an outermost wall portion of a receiver contai ⁇ ner having a hopper shaped bottom portion leading the readily downfalling slices to a relatively narrow bottom area representing the dimentions of the packing plates.
  • the slices will not be hard frozen or non-sticky, and they will tend to stick to the said outermost container wall portion, if they are thrown against it.
  • a pos ⁇ sible solution can be to arrange for an outward re ⁇ traction of these wall portions such that they will only exceptionally be hit by the diverted slices, while using underneath the trajectory of the diverted slices a col ⁇ lector conveyor bringing the downfalling slices down to the said bottom area of the receiver container.
  • a col ⁇ lector conveyor bringing the downfalling slices down to the said bottom area of the receiver container.
  • SUBSTITUTESHEET was based on the use of a low-friction plastic material for the container walls, facilitating an easy sliding down of the sticky slices onto the narrow bottom of the receiver container, contrasted to the conventional use of metal walls, but the efficiency of this system, though sufficient for some products, was not found sa ⁇ tisfying for the handling of smoked salmon slices at temperatures well above 0°C.
  • Fig. 1 is a top view of a grader system according to the invention
  • Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a diverter wing in such a system
  • Figs. 3-7 are illustrations of a modified and pre ⁇ ferred receiver in such a system.
  • the system shown in Fig. 1 comprises a feeding belt
  • SUBSTITUTESHEET of which there is provided a row of receiver stations 6, while at the other side of this belt there is arranged, correspondingly, a row of diverter wings 7, which, con ⁇ trolled by the computer 4, are operable to be swung inwardly over the belt 5 so as to thereby effect a di ⁇ version of weighed objects 2 to any selected station 6. It is indicated by an arrow that the swinging-in of the diverter wings may take place with such a velocity that an object 2 hit by the wing will be directly thrown out towards the selected station 6.
  • each station 6 comprises a receiver section 8 made as an outwardly and downwardly slanting roller conveyor with very thin con ⁇ veyor rollers 9, e.g. only some 5 mm thick, leading down to a collector section 10, next to which there is located a magazine 11 for packing plates or trays.
  • a strip shaped table 12 outside which a take-away conveyor 13 is arranged.
  • the downwardly slanting roller conveyor 8 will serve to receive all slices thrown off from the belt 5 and guide them down to the section 10, in which they are deposited, optionally assisted by an operator, on a packing plate or tray furnished from the magazine 11.
  • the filled plate or tray may be transferred to the table 12 by the operator or by automatic means, and then a new plate or tray can be fed from the magazine 11, enabling a rapid reactuation of the receiver station 6.
  • the operator may then, on the table 12, effect the required rearrangement of the collected slices and thereafter push the packing plate or tray onto the conveyor 13 for delivery thereof to a packing station.
  • a non-illustrated alternative can be to avoid the
  • roller conveyor 8 and provide the section 10 as a bottom portion in a hopper like receiver bin placed closer to the belt 5, with outermost upstanding wall portions for catching the slices thrown off from the belt 5, these walls being made of a low friction material and/or with a surface profilation promoting an easy sliding down of the slices caught by these wall portions.
  • the wings 7 may cause the slices 2 to be rollingly overfolded rather than just pushed or thrown off the belt 5, whereby the orientation of such slices is changed.
  • a rather simple solution to this problem was found, viz. in profiling the wings as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the wing 7 is provided with a protrud ⁇ ing scraper edge 14 having above and in front of it a protruding root face 14.
  • Even more or less thawn salmon slices may then be displaced on the belt 5 rather than overrolled thereon, at least with highly increased secu ⁇ rity.
  • the operators may well accept a few turned slices now and then.
  • the receptacles 6 should have a length in the long ⁇ itudinal direction of the belt 5 longer than the normal width of a packing plate in order to allow for some spreading of the throw-out form the associated wings 7. Upstanding outer walls should receive the slices not directly hitting the packing plates at the bottom, and the slices should be guided so as to be delivered to the relatively narrow bottom plate, if required with some manual assistance, though as little as possible. As described in connection with Figs. 3-7 it has been found possible to design a receptacle widely fulfilling these requirements.
  • receptacle unit is shown in an exploded view in Fig. 3 and in assembled condition in Fig. 4.
  • the unit has a rear plate portion 16 with obliquely forward- ly extending wing plates 18 and with a slightly upwardly
  • the horizontal plate edge portion 24 extend parallel to each other with a certain mutual distance, viz. such that they are suited to carry between them a loose bottom plate 28, which, as shown particularly in the top view of Fig. 6, may well extend further outwardly underneath the rear plate 16, the edge portions 24 being correspondingly extended.
  • Fig. 5 is a cross sectional view of the conveyor 6 with an associated lateral view of a receptacle, in which a bottom plate 28 i shown rested on an edge plate 24.
  • the slices will predominantly be delivered to the bottom plate 28, though also with overlapping to the triangular bottom portions 20. Some slices may be thrown against the wing sides 18,22 and even stick thereto.
  • TITUTESHEET fall down therefrom by the associated inward pivoting of these plates.
  • the pivoting make take place at high speed and with an abrupt stop, whereby adhering slices will be thrown off so as to fall down on the top of the slices on the plate 28 as already fallen down.
  • An operator may then take out the plate 28 and manually rearrange the slices neatly thereon. Also, the operator may visually inspect the receptacle and release slices happening to still get stuck thereto. In particular when the slices are still cold the receptacles will be liable to comple ⁇ tely empty themselves onto the support plate 28, re ⁇ quiring only sporadic assistance from the operator.
  • a new support plate 28, also referred to as a pack ⁇ ing plate, may thereafter be placed on the plate edges 24 by the operator, once the plate systems 20,22 have been swung back, and the operator may actuate a switch informing the computer of the renewed operability of the receptacle. It is preferred, however, to make use of an automatic feeding of the plates 28 from a magazine 32, Fig. 7, by means of suction cups and an associated move ⁇ ment system. Preferably, use is made of a lateral feed ⁇ ing to the area beneath the opened bottom portions 20 and then a raising to the normal position of the carrier plate 28, which will then be stabilized by a reclosing of the bottom portions 20, as the plate edges 24 will then be brought into position beneath the side edges of the plate 28. Thereafter the suction cups are released and moved back to the magazine.
  • the inwardly slanting configuration of the upstand ⁇ ing walls will contribute to make the slices less adher ⁇ ing to these walls, as the gravity will seek to loosen the adherence.
  • bottom plate 28 could be a system part, from which the collected slice portions could be transferred to individual packing plates, but it will be appreciated that these plates 28 may perfectly well be
  • SUBSTITUTESHEET the packing plates themselves. Once the operator has completed the rearrangement of the slices on such a plate, the latter may be delivered e.g. to a conveyor belt for bringing it to a further processing unit or to a final packaging station.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Branching, Merging, And Special Transfer Between Conveyors (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
  • Apparatuses For Bulk Treatment Of Fruits And Vegetables And Apparatuses For Preparing Feeds (AREA)

Abstract

Afin de conditionner pour la vente de denrées tranchées de haute qualité, telles que du saumon fumé, il est de pratique courante de disposer les tranches à la main, en ordre, de manière imbriquée, sur une plaque-support en carton. Les opérateurs peuvent même sélectionner des tranches particuliaires afin d'obtenir un poids total désiré de la denrée conditionnée. Selon l'invention, il est possible de faciliter considérablement ce travail au moyen d'une machine à faire les portions et à peser (3, 4, 5), de type niveleuse, dont les stations réceptrices (6, 10) sont utilisées comme postes de travail d'un ou plusieurs opérateurs qui n'ont pas besoin de contrôler le poids des portions assemblées. Les stations réceptrices (6, 10) sont conçues à cet usage particulier et comprennent, par exemple, un dispositif d'alimentation automatique des plaques-support (28) vers les stations (6, 10) et un dispositif facilitant la distribution des tranches collantes (2) depuis la zone réceptrice (8) des plaques-supports.
EP95912152A 1994-03-22 1995-03-21 Procede et systeme de manipulation de denrees alimentaires tranchees en vue de leur conditionnement apres avoir ete pesees et placees de maniere ordonnee Expired - Lifetime EP0772403B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (7)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
DK332/94 1994-03-22
DK33294 1994-03-22
DK33294 1994-03-22
DK72/95 1995-01-20
DK7295 1995-01-20
DK7295 1995-01-20
PCT/DK1995/000124 WO1995025431A1 (fr) 1994-03-22 1995-03-21 Procede et systeme de manipulation de denrees alimentaires tranchees en vue de leur conditionnement apres avoir ete pesees et placees de maniere ordonnee

Publications (2)

Publication Number Publication Date
EP0772403A1 true EP0772403A1 (fr) 1997-05-14
EP0772403B1 EP0772403B1 (fr) 2001-06-13

Family

ID=26063246

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
EP95912152A Expired - Lifetime EP0772403B1 (fr) 1994-03-22 1995-03-21 Procede et systeme de manipulation de denrees alimentaires tranchees en vue de leur conditionnement apres avoir ete pesees et placees de maniere ordonnee

Country Status (6)

Country Link
EP (1) EP0772403B1 (fr)
AU (1) AU1946395A (fr)
DE (1) DE69521320T2 (fr)
DK (1) DK0772403T3 (fr)
NO (1) NO312392B1 (fr)
WO (1) WO1995025431A1 (fr)

Families Citing this family (11)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR2744984A1 (fr) * 1996-02-15 1997-08-22 Soral Ind Dispositif permettant de former des lots de portions de denrees alimentaires d'un poids donne
GB9719522D0 (en) * 1997-09-12 1997-11-19 Newman Paul B D Automated packaging
IS1758B2 (is) 1998-03-05 2002-09-20 Pols Hf. Aðferð til nákvæms og sjálfvirks þyngdarsamvals úr raðflæði stykkja
DK199800844A (da) * 1998-06-26 1999-12-27 Scanvaegt International A S Fremgangsmåde og udportioneringsapparat af gradertypen til opbygning af differentierede emneportioner
GB2358478B (en) * 1998-10-15 2003-01-08 Scanvaegt Int As Method and apparatus for batching-out items such as poultry pieces
US6321135B1 (en) * 1999-07-27 2001-11-20 Marel Hf Batching of objects
DE10137651A1 (de) * 2001-08-03 2003-02-27 Nordischer Maschinenbau Verfahren zur automatisierten Verarbeitung von Fischen und Anlage zum Aufbereiten und Verarbeiten von Fischen, insbesondere zum Schlachten und Entweiden derselben
ITBO20050427A1 (it) * 2005-06-28 2006-12-29 Unitec Srl Metodo ed impianto per il trasporto e la selezione di prodotti ortofrutticoli
EP2745942B1 (fr) 2007-02-07 2016-05-11 Marel A/S Procédé et système permettant de traiter des articles alimentaires
ITUB20152199A1 (it) * 2015-07-15 2017-01-15 Mate S R L Selezionatrice
DK201570567A1 (en) * 2015-08-31 2016-08-29 Marel Iceland Ehf System for conveying food items and packing the food items at a plurality of packing areas

Family Cites Families (9)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2117839A1 (de) * 1971-04-13 1972-10-19 Unilever Nv Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Sortieren und zur Bildung von Stapeln von Lebensmittelscheiben
FR2198127B1 (fr) * 1972-09-07 1976-01-23 Le Cren Roger Fr
DK156033C (da) * 1982-02-24 1993-02-08 Aalborg Ind Corp A S Aic Fremgangsmaade til fra et forraad af emner med indbyrdes forskellig vaegt at sammensaette enheder med en oensket totalvaegt og indeholdende et forud fastlagt antal emner samt apparat til brug ved udoevelse af fremgangsmaaden
SE8206224L (sv) * 1982-11-02 1984-05-03 Ivers Lee Svenska Forpackningsmaskin for skivade produkter eller liknande
NL8700690A (nl) * 1987-03-24 1988-10-17 Leonardus Johannes Henricus Pe Inrichting voor het sorteren van stukken vlees.
DK159868C (da) * 1988-08-03 1991-05-21 Hude Centralen Andelsselskabet Anlaeg til sortering af huder, der tilfoeres i kasser
FR2679201A1 (fr) * 1991-07-15 1993-01-22 Legoff Jean Philippe Procede et dispositif pour la mise en barquette de produits divers.
DE4215950C2 (de) * 1992-05-14 2003-01-09 Geba Geraetebau Gmbh Vorrichtung zum Abnehmen und Überführen einzelner Scheiben in Scheiben zerlegten Schneidgutes, insbesondere Lachsseiten, von einer Schneidestation an ein weiterführendes Transportmittel
DE4215951A1 (de) * 1992-05-14 1993-11-18 Geba Geraetebau Gmbh Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von gewichtsmäßig bestimmten Portionen aus Scheiben von Schneidgut, vorzugsweise von Fleischstücken, insbesondere von Lachsseiten

Non-Patent Citations (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Title
See references of WO9525431A1 *

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
AU1946395A (en) 1995-10-09
WO1995025431A1 (fr) 1995-09-28
NO963909D0 (no) 1996-09-18
DE69521320T2 (de) 2002-05-02
NO963909L (no) 1996-10-30
DE69521320D1 (de) 2001-07-19
DK0772403T3 (da) 2001-10-01
NO312392B1 (no) 2002-05-06
EP0772403B1 (fr) 2001-06-13

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
EP0706479B1 (fr) Procede et systeme de dosage ponderal de portions de produits
US5104002A (en) Food dispenser and method
US20050120848A1 (en) Trim table
EP0772403B1 (fr) Procede et systeme de manipulation de denrees alimentaires tranchees en vue de leur conditionnement apres avoir ete pesees et placees de maniere ordonnee
EP2384825B1 (fr) Dispositif de tri et procédé de commande du dispositif de tri
US7368670B2 (en) Method for automatically feeding a combination weigher
JP7013127B2 (ja) 物品供給装置
AU2002212208B2 (en) A mushroom packing apparatus
US5575712A (en) Device for machine
JPH063182A (ja) 秤量して分配する装置及び方法
JP6858628B2 (ja) 物品振分け装置及びそれを備えた物品供給装置
US5333718A (en) Apparatus for handling plastic eating utensils
US2617532A (en) Apparatus for separating ice from ice-packed fish
EP0954988A1 (fr) Appareil et dispositif pour le traitement et l'emballage de champignons
US11261033B2 (en) Combination weighing device
US5881889A (en) Sorter system of the grader type
US4586632A (en) Paper dispenser
GB2109762A (en) Method and apparatus for use in sorting/grading fish
US4773527A (en) Weighing machine for articles of irregular and elongate shape
US3859775A (en) Product packaging apparatus
NL1023086C1 (nl) Inrichting voor het bepalen van de kleefbaarheidsfactor van een bepaald soort voeder.
US3883422A (en) Silverware feeder construction
JPS6238789Y2 (fr)
CA2203244C (fr) Systeme de triage de type classeur
EP0512820A1 (fr) Appareil pour préparer des portions embrouillées

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
PUAI Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phase

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009012

17P Request for examination filed

Effective date: 19961014

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: A1

Designated state(s): BE DE DK FR GB NL

EL Fr: translation of claims filed
17Q First examination report despatched

Effective date: 19990309

GRAG Despatch of communication of intention to grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOS AGRA

GRAG Despatch of communication of intention to grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOS AGRA

GRAH Despatch of communication of intention to grant a patent

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOS IGRA

GRAH Despatch of communication of intention to grant a patent

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: EPIDOS IGRA

GRAA (expected) grant

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009210

AK Designated contracting states

Kind code of ref document: B1

Designated state(s): BE DE DK FR GB NL

REF Corresponds to:

Ref document number: 69521320

Country of ref document: DE

Date of ref document: 20010719

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: DK

Ref legal event code: T3

ET Fr: translation filed
REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: GB

Ref legal event code: IF02

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: BE

Payment date: 20020308

Year of fee payment: 8

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: GB

Payment date: 20020320

Year of fee payment: 8

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: NL

Payment date: 20020331

Year of fee payment: 8

PLBE No opposition filed within time limit

Free format text: ORIGINAL CODE: 0009261

STAA Information on the status of an ep patent application or granted ep patent

Free format text: STATUS: NO OPPOSITION FILED WITHIN TIME LIMIT

26N No opposition filed
PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: GB

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20030321

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: BE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20030331

BERE Be: lapsed

Owner name: *SCANVAEGT A/S

Effective date: 20030331

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: NL

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20031001

GBPC Gb: european patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee

Effective date: 20030321

NLV4 Nl: lapsed or anulled due to non-payment of the annual fee

Effective date: 20031001

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DK

Payment date: 20060303

Year of fee payment: 12

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: FR

Payment date: 20060322

Year of fee payment: 12

PGFP Annual fee paid to national office [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Payment date: 20060330

Year of fee payment: 12

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: DK

Ref legal event code: EBP

REG Reference to a national code

Ref country code: FR

Ref legal event code: ST

Effective date: 20071130

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DE

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20071002

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: DK

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20070402

PG25 Lapsed in a contracting state [announced via postgrant information from national office to epo]

Ref country code: FR

Free format text: LAPSE BECAUSE OF NON-PAYMENT OF DUE FEES

Effective date: 20070402