EP2450166A1 - Procédé de coupe d'un tronçon d'aliments en tranches - Google Patents

Procédé de coupe d'un tronçon d'aliments en tranches Download PDF

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EP2450166A1
EP2450166A1 EP20110187265 EP11187265A EP2450166A1 EP 2450166 A1 EP2450166 A1 EP 2450166A1 EP 20110187265 EP20110187265 EP 20110187265 EP 11187265 A EP11187265 A EP 11187265A EP 2450166 A1 EP2450166 A1 EP 2450166A1
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  • the DE 197 13 813 C1 discloses a method of the aforementioned type, in which a transfer of a partial portion of the clipboard, which is formed in the form of a fork, already takes place on a conveyor, which is designed in the form of a conveyor belt.
  • the conveyor is relative to the cutter, in particular to the latter Knife, movable in vertical direction.
  • the transfer of a partial portion of the clipboard to the conveyor takes place in such a way that the clipboard moves away continuously with the feed rate of the cutter and dips with their teeth in the spaces between adjacent straps of the conveyor.
  • the storage conditions ie the distance measured in vertical direction between the cutting plane and the top of the last cut off and already deposited disc, always kept constant.
  • the conveyor stops this lowering process only when the last slice of a portion is cut off and stored, whereupon the running in the horizontal direction removal of the completed portion is initiated and the interim transferred to their waiting clipboard can be injected into the cross section of the food strand to to begin with the slices of the next partial portion.
  • a disadvantage of the known method is the requirement that both the clipboard and the conveyor must be synchronized in its vertical movement with the feed movement of the food strand in the vertical direction. This makes high demands on the type of drives and the controller. In particular, the transfer time at which the partial portion changes in its circulation from the clipboard to the conveyor is to be determined precisely.
  • a method of the aforementioned type is further for example from US-A-3842698 known.
  • the device as used in the FIGS. 10 to 14 discloses the aforementioned document has two clipboards, which can be transferred from opposite directions of a respective waiting position next to the food strand cross section in their receiving position below the food strand.
  • the clipboards which are displaceably mounted in the feed direction in addition to a direction perpendicular to the feed direction, are used in the known method to take in each case a complete portion of the cut slices in vertically stacked form, in order to then feed them with the interposition of a transfer element on a conveyor, comprising a plurality of circumferential straps to pass.
  • the transfer element enters from the side facing away from the food strand underside of the conveyor into spaces between adjacent straps and also penetrates spaces in the fork-shaped clipboard to get in this way to the underside of the formed portion approach and take over supporting.
  • the two clipboards are used to continuously feed the food strand, ie without interruptions in the removal of finished portions. While a portion is still on the one clipboard or is just taken over by the transfer element, the other clipboard is already in a waiting position or a shifted below the cross section of the food strand receiving position, so that the cutting process can be continued without interruption.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method for cutting a food in slices, in which can be realized with the least possible design effort, a high cutting performance and a high degree of geometrical accuracy of the cut slices.
  • the above object starting from a method of the type described above, achieved in that after the transfer of the unfinished portion on the conveyor a distance between an upper side of each last cut and disc stored and a bottom of the knife with each other produced slice is gradually reduced.
  • the invention is based on the recognition that the storage conditions for producing portions with high geometrical inaccuracy are not only optimal or acceptable at a very specific distance, but that the function of the storage quality over the distance between the bottom of the knife and the top of the last disc is very flat in the range of the optimal distance. This means that the distance between the underside of the knife and the upper side of the already formed partial portion can easily be varied within certain limits, without this noticeably impairing the filing quality.
  • the invention makes use of this finding that in the final phase of the production of a portion, ie after the transfer of a partial portion of the clipboard on the conveyor, the distance between the top of the partial portion and the bottom of the knife no longer by active vertical movement Conveyor is kept constant, but that after transfer of the partial portion on the conveyor an increase in the height of the partial portion is allowed to reach the final stack height.
  • a vertical tracking of the sub-stack is thus only during the phase in which the sub-stack is still on the clipboard. Only the clipboard needs therefore be able to change its position in the vertical direction depending on the feed rate.
  • the clipboard after depositing m discs on the clipboard at a speed which is greater than the feed rate of the food strand, moved away from the cutter, whereby the unfinished portion is transferred to the conveyor, wherein a The distance between the knife of the cutter and the top of the m-th disk in the transfer of the unfinished portion of the clipboard to the conveyor is greater than during the cutting of the first m discs.
  • the storage conditions during the cutting of the first m slices can be kept constant, whereas the transfer of the unfinished portion on the conveyor to as dynamic as possible "dipping" the clipboard takes place in the conveyor. From the time of transfer, the distance is between the top of the mth disc and the bottom of the knife then increases and reduces successively with each further cut disc to the nth disc. It is important that the distance at the time of transfer of unfinished portion is sufficiently large to accommodate all slices still to be cut of the portion just produced without a collision between the knife and the top of the nth disc occurs.
  • a development of the method according to the invention is that the clipboard is moved so that the respective distance between the top of each of the first to the m-th disc is greater than the respective distance in the (m + 1) th to the nth disc.
  • the distance between the top of the portion and the bottom of the knife is only at the time of cutting the nth, i. the last, disc minimal, whereas it is larger during the cutting of all previous discs.
  • the clipboard may be cut during the cutting of the first m discs, i. by the time the unfinished portion is transferred to the conveyor, it is moved downwards at the feed rate of the material strand, whereby there are constant storage conditions during this phase of the cutting operation.
  • a successive reduction of the distance between the portion upper side and the underside of the knife occurs only after the time of transfer of the portion on the conveyor. The advantage of this procedure is that dynamic movement processes of the loaded clipboard are not necessary.
  • the storage conditions are deliberately changed after the transfer of an unfinished portion of the conveyor and in the sense that the distance between the cutting plane and the surface of the last cut slice with each further slice is successively reduced.
  • the conveying device is stationary at least in the vertical direction at the moment in which the unfinished portion is transferred from the clipboard to it.
  • the control effort and the device-technical effort in terms of the nature of the drive of the conveyor can be reduced in the vertical direction.
  • the distance between the top of the m-th disc and the blade of the cutter maximum and in the course of cutting the other discs decreases (with vertically stationary conveyor) again, preferably the storage conditions at the cutting of the last ie The Nth slice, as is a portion again, as they were during the first m slices of portion too.
  • the method according to the invention thus leads to a change in the storage conditions during a transitional period in order to thereby obtain sufficient time for the recycling of the intermediate deposit. This is due to the accelerated lowering and the - measured at the vertical distance - "premature" transfer of the unfinished portion the conveyor at a time, which can be used for the return of the clipboard in the waiting position to at the beginning of the generation of the next portion, the clipboard in time again einsch manen in the food cross section or its projection in the cutting plane can.
  • a further development of the method according to the invention is that the distance between the knife of the cutting device and a surface of the conveyor before starting the cutting process in dependence on the number n of slices of the portion to be produced and a thickness d of a single disc is adjusted.
  • the aforesaid vertical distance is determined from the product of the number n of slices and their thickness d plus a distance A 0 , which ensures safe clearance of the knife and is typically located in the range of a few millimeters.
  • the method according to the invention also dispenses with that from the prior art in the form of US-A-3846698 known transfer element and therefore reduces the effort in the production not insignificant. It thus finds an immediate transfer the partial portion of the conveyor without the interposition of other components instead. But not only the design effort is minimized, but the invention also simplifies the control in the device implementation of the new method, since the complicated coordination between the clipboard and transfer element on the one hand and transfer element and conveyor on the other hand is reduced to a vote between clipboard and conveyor element.
  • the production of a finished portion is carried out according to the method of the invention in two phases, namely a phase in which (initially) the clipboard serves as a support member for the emerging portion serving.
  • a phase in which (initially) the clipboard serves as a support member for the emerging portion serving After a certain time, that is to say the generation of a certain number of slices of the portion which is currently being formed, it is transferred to the conveyor during the cutting process, that is to say, in particular also with the feed continued and the rotation of the knife unchanged, which is therefore uncritical because the deposit, that is to say the addition of further slices, takes place on the upper side of the portion, whereas the change in support from the clipboard to the conveyor takes place on the underside and therefore can be made such that it does not interfere with the top of the resulting portion causes.
  • a particularly simple transfer of cut slices from the clipboard to the conveyor is then enabled when support elements of the clipboard enter into spaces between adjacent straps of the conveyor during transfer, with a disc supporting surface of the support elements after transfer below a disc carrying surface of the Riemchen the conveyor is arranged.
  • the conveyor is arranged.
  • the transfer of cut slices from the clipboard onto the conveyor belt can advantageously be achieved by means of a relative movement between the clipboard and the conveyor running in the feed direction.
  • the clipboard is lowered correspondingly far in preferably stationary conveyor.
  • the conveyor (or previously also the clipboard) is lowered with each new disc successively or with a corresponding average speed continuously per section by the thickness of the disc to throughout the cutting process to ensure a constant distance between the cutting plane of the knife and the depositing surface for the newly formed disc (in the form of the surface of the clipboard or the surface of the last slice already cut).
  • the clipboard can not leave the wait position until the knife has already begun to cut a next slice and is already within the cross-section of the food strand.
  • the clipboard can move in a projection of the cross section of the food strand in a direction perpendicular to the feed direction even at an already by gravity depending drooping or even resting on the previously cut disc part of the currently in the Arise emerging disc with the surface of their support elements raise again. In this way, an already imposing storage of the new disc on the discs of the previous portion by the transfer of the clipboard in the receiving position is reversed again to assign the currently emerging disc of the new portion, ie the clipboard.
  • the clipboard penetrates from one side of the food strand and the knife of the cutting device from the opposite side of the food strand into its cross section.
  • the clipboard preferably has support members arranged to be positionable in clearances between adjacent slips of the conveyor, with a plane defined by the surface of the support members parallel to a plane defined by the surface of the slips of the conveyor. Due to the parallelism of the aforementioned levels, the transfer of the disks from the clipboard to the aprons is made particularly gentle, whereby a very high quality of the filing geometry is achieved.
  • the clipboard is fork-shaped and the support members are tine-shaped and arranged on a support beam, preferably welded thereto.
  • the mass of the strong to be accelerated clipboard should be kept as low as possible.
  • the measured in the feed direction height of the support elements should be smaller than twice, preferably less than 1.5 times, the thickness of the slices to be cut, in particular less than 10 mm, preferably 8 mm, more preferably between 4 mm and 6 mm lie.
  • the mass of the clipboard should be less than 0.5 kg, preferably less than 0.3 kg.
  • the support elements comes next to stainless steel or light metal alloys and fiber-reinforced plastic, in particular using carbon fibers, in question.
  • the clipboard is mounted displaceably in a catch frame perpendicular to the feed direction and the catch frame is slidably mounted on a machine frame in the feed direction, wherein the catch frame has two laterally arranged next to the conveyor linear guides for the clipboard.
  • catch frame in the sense of the present application is not necessarily a self-contained execution of struts to understand. Rather, in particular, a three-sided, ie U-shaped arrangement of struts meant, which makes sense to realize storage facilities for the clipboard on both sides next to the conveyor can.
  • a drive with the help of a timing belt in question which is characterized by a slip-free running even at maximum dynamics of movement.
  • the conveyor is followed by a likewise formed in the form of a belt having a plurality of mutually parallel straps discharge device.
  • the conveyor may be stored together with the discharge on a discharge frame, which in turn adjustable on a machine frame, in particular slidably and / or is pivotally mounted.
  • the support elements of the clipboard should have a measured perpendicular to the feed length, the at least twice, preferably at least three times, measured perpendicular to the feed width of the cut Slices corresponds.
  • the clipboard In order to avoid temporal problems in the often time-critical phase of "putting in” of the clipboard, the clipboard should - starting from its waiting position - in the same direction in a projection of the cross section of the food strand in a plane formed by the support elements of the clipboard, be introduced, as the cut slices are discharged from the conveyor.
  • the same purpose of a relaxation of the cutting operation is the measure, according to which the clipboard enters from one side into a projection of the cross section of the food strand in a plane formed by the surface of the support elements of the clipboard, which is opposite to a side on the Due to gravity, an emerging disc will detach from the food strand due to gravity.
  • FIGS. 1 to 5 partially in a perspective view and in the FIGS. 6 to 10 in a side view shown device 1 for cutting a food strand 2 (for example, sausage, cheese, etc.) has one only in the FIGS. 6 to 11 illustrated cutting device 3, which has a rotating about a rotation axis 4 blade 5, for example in the form of a sickle blade, but alternatively also in the form of a planetary-like rotating on a swing arm circular blade.
  • a cutting edge 6 defines by the rotation of a cutting plane 7, which is aligned perpendicular to a longitudinal axis 8 of the food strand 2.
  • the longitudinal axis 8 runs parallel to the feed direction illustrated by an arrow 9, into which the food strand 2 is advanced onto the knife 5 of the cutting device 3 with the aid of a feed device 10 shown only schematically.
  • the feed device 10 has at its upper end in the feed direction (arrow 9) vorschiebbare gripper device 11, the gripper hooks 12 are buried in the knife 5 facing away from the rear end of the food strand 2 and thus form a positive connection.
  • Both the gripper device 11 and two feed belts, not shown, which support the food strand 2 laterally and are equipped with interlocking means (spikes) to prevent slippage, have a configuration according to the prior art and require no further explanation at this point.
  • the food strand 2 by means of the feed device 10 with a large Precision in the feed direction (arrow 9) are advanced, which is important for achieving a high accuracy in the geometry of the slices to be cut.
  • the clipboard 15 On a side facing away from the food strand 2 and the feed device 10 side of the cutting plane 7 are juxtaposed and partially overlapping a discharge 13, a conveyor 14 and a clipboard 15.
  • the clipboard 15 has the shape of a fork and has a plurality of parallel and equidistant from each other tine-shaped support members 16 and a perpendicular to the support members extending and connected to the support beam 17.
  • the clipboard 15 is mounted in a collecting frame 18 in such a way that it is perpendicular to the feed direction, that is parallel to the cutting plane 7 slidably.
  • the support beam 17 is mounted at both longitudinal ends in each case a linear guide 19, which is located in each case in the interior of a longitudinal strut 20 of the collecting frame 18.
  • the drive of the clipboard 15 in the direction of the linear guides 19 takes place by means of a respective timing belt 21, which is connected on both sides of the clipboard 15 by means of a coupling element with the support beam 17.
  • the collecting frame 18 is as such in a direction (double arrow 22) parallel to the feed direction (arrow 9) displaceable within a in FIG. 1 schematically, in FIG. 6 but not shown machine frame 23 slidably.
  • the adjustability is carried out, for example, by means of a hydraulically or pneumatically actuated cylinder 24 to the respective piston rod 25, a lower part 26 of the collecting frame 18 is connected.
  • FIG. 1 in which only the actually cranked piston rods 25 (which in the FIGS. 6 to 11 For the sake of simplicity, are shown only in a straight line) are visible, the storage and adjustment of the collecting frame 18 by means of two cylinders 24 in the FIGS.
  • the conveyor 14 includes a plurality of equidistant from each other and arranged on its upper side a common conveying plane 28 forming apron 29, which are guided around two annular grooves for the straps 29 deflecting rollers 30, 31, one of which is driven by means of a servo drive.
  • the clear distance between adjacent ones Riemchen 29 is slightly larger than the measured perpendicular to the longitudinal extent of the fork-shaped support members 16 width of the support members 16. Since the pitch of the straps 29 of the conveyor 14 corresponds to the pitch of the support members 16 of the clipboard 15, the latter can therefore immerse themselves in the spaces between adjacent straps, which is crucial for the transfer of cut slices from the clipboard 15 to the conveyor 14 as described below.
  • the discharge device 13 as well as the conveyor 14 comprises a plurality of straps 32, whose width, however, is considerably greater than that of the straps 29 of the conveyor 14.
  • a guide roller 33 of the discharge device 13 is arranged so close to the guide roller 30 of the conveyor 14 that the Riemchen 29, 32 do not collide with each other, with a trouble-free and the disc assembly does not interfere transfer from the conveyor 14 is secured to the discharge device 13.
  • the discharge device 13 is mounted in a discharge frame 34 which is mounted pivotably about the axis of rotation of a guide roller 35 in the machine frame 23.
  • the deflection roller 33 of the discharge device 13 associated with the end of the discharge device 13 is provided with a in FIG. 1 covered by a machine housing in FIG. 6 However, visible further cylinder 36 (hydraulically or pneumatically operated) or its piston rod 37 is connected. An extension of the piston rod 37 from the cylinder 36 causes both an upward pivoting of the discharge frame 34 and a parallel displacement of the conveyor 14, which is also coupled to the piston rod 37.
  • a receiving plane 39 of the conveyor 14 formed by the surface of the aprons 29 always remains in its parallel alignment with the cutting plane 7 , that is perpendicular to the feed direction (arrow 9). Due to the articulated connection between conveyor 14 and discharge device 13, the angle enclosed between the receiving plane 39 and a discharge plane 40 formed by the surface of the straps 32 changes depending on the position of the conveyor 14, that is the position of the piston rod 37 of the cylinder 36.
  • Another synchronizing belt 40 represents a coupling between the deflecting roller 30 of the conveying device 14 and the deflecting roller 35 of the discharging device 13.
  • FIGS. 1 to 5 First, the formation of portions is explained by a method not according to the invention, wherein the portions of five shingled, ie offset, successive individual discs are made. Due to the omission of the cutting device 3 and the feed device 10 including the food strand 2, the interaction between the conveyor 14, the clipboard 15 and the discharge device 13 is particularly clearly visible.
  • FIG. 1 shows a situation in which a portion just completed and formed from five slices rests on the conveyor 14. For each blade revolution, a slice is separated from the food strand 2, wherein between two consecutive cuts the aprons 29 of the conveyor 14 are advanced by the "shingling dimension" in the direction of the discharge device 13 in order to produce only a partially overlapping so-called shingled or shingled tray ,
  • FIG. 1 shows a situation in which the knife 5 has just completed the section of the last, uppermost disc and the clipboard 15 is still in its waiting position in which it - by appropriate control of the timing belt 21 - has a maximum distance from the discharge device 13.
  • the on the control of the non-visible cylinder 24 and consequently the movement of the associated piston rods 25 to be adjusted height of the collecting frame 18 and thus the top of the support members 16 of the clipboard 15 is set at this moment that the clipboard 15 by activating the drive of Synchronous belt 21 can be moved in the direction of the discharge device 13, without touching the uppermost slice of lying on the conveyor 14 completed portion.
  • the clipboard 15 is shown in its catchment position in which it is located vertically below the face of the food strand and therefore can receive a straight cut slice on the surface of its carrying elements 16. Since the rotation of the knife 5 as well as the feed movement of the food strand 2 during the entire cutting process (ie until the food strand 2, apart from a remnant in which the hooks are 12 are completely cut), with constant speed, ie without change in the Angular velocity, moving, the clipboard must be brought from its waiting position to the catching position within the shortest possible time, ie between the generation of two discs. This requires a very large dynamic in the movement of the clipboard, which is made possible by a high-performance servo drive for the timing belt 21.
  • FIG. 3 It can be seen that a second slice of the portion currently being formed has already been cut off and placed on the clipboard 15.
  • the clipboard has moved perpendicular to the feed direction by the Schindel researcher so that the second disc overlaps the first slice of the new portion only partially.
  • the conveyor does not move. Due to the further continued movement of the conveyor 14 and the discharge device 13, the preceding finished portion is now substantially completely on the discharge device 13th
  • the clipboard 15 is now transferred to a discharge position in which the support elements 16 - are immersed in the spaces between adjacent straps 29 - by downward movement of the clipboard 15, so that the previously in contact with the support elements 16 of the clipboard 15 in contact with the surface the straps 29 were handed over.
  • the preceding completed portion has meanwhile moved further on the discharge belt 13 in the direction of the deflection roller 35, in order to be subsequently forwarded to a packaging device in which the disks are welded into a self-adhesive foil packaging.
  • FIG. 5 shows how a fourth slice has been added to the currently formed portion.
  • the still unfinished portion rests solely on the conveyor 14 and, in order to retain the shingling, has been advanced a bit onto the discharge device 13 in comparison with the preceding slice section.
  • the clipboard 15 has been retracted from the emptying position to an intermediate position while keeping its distance from the cutting plane, avoiding any contact with the cut-off wheels. Starting from the intermediate position of the clipboard 15 shown, it can be raised again into its waiting position in a next step, which is done by raising the entire catch frame 18. After cutting off another, fifth slice completing the current portion is again the starting situation according to FIG. 1 reached.
  • FIGS. 6 to 11 now explains the inventive method in the production of a portion consisting of exactly vertically stacked discs. Also, such portions are welded after the device according to the invention in a packaging device in plastic film packaging and offered as self-service packaging units in supermarkets.
  • the knife 5 is still within the cross section of the food strand 2, but will leave this at the next moment to then reenter again in the meantime a piece of advanced food strand 2 and begin with the separation of the next disc.
  • the clipboard 15 from the in FIG. 6 shown in the waiting position FIG. 7 transferred shown Auffang ein, ie in particular with great momentum "shot". Therefore, after the beginning of the generation of the next slice, it comes to a shelf of the same on the clipboard 15, which in their shot Position (Auffang sued) only just above the surface 41 of the completed portion is located.
  • FIG. 8 shows a situation how the second slice of the newly formed portion is about to completely separate from the food strand 2.
  • the vertically stacked tray according to the FIGS. 6 to 11 merely that the clipboard 15 must be moved during its use for storage purposes in the feed direction in order to keep the distance between the cutting plane (defined by a cutting edge of the blade 5) and the storage level for the next resulting disc constant and thus the storage conditions too change.
  • FIG. 9 It is shown how the third slice of the newly formed portion is being separated. The preceding completed portion is transferred to the discharge device 13 and is further moved there.
  • FIG. 10 shows a state in which nine of the twelve slices of a serving have been cut from the food strand.
  • the storage conditions are at this moment still as they were from the beginning of the creation of the nascent just emerging serving. (Distance A between the bottom 43 of the blade 5 and the top 42 of the last cut disc).
  • FIG. 11 a state as generated by accelerated lowering of the clipboard 15, with the forks of the clipboard 15 immersed between the belts of the conveyor 14, so that the unfinished portion now rests on the conveyor 14 and no longer on the clipboard 15.
  • the present distance A 'between the bottom 43 of the knife 5 and the top 42 of the last cut disc is greater than the previously existing distance A.
  • the clipboard 15 can be pulled out perpendicular to the feed direction from the projection of the cross section of the food strand 2 (intermediate position, cf. FIG. 5 ) to return to the in FIG. 12 shown waiting position to be transferred. There, the clipboard 15 can remain until the last slice of the emerging portion is cut off and deposited on the stack. How out FIG. 12 it can be seen, the distance A between the bottom 43 of the knife 5 and the top 42 of the last cut disc is now again as he before the accelerated lowering of the clipboard (see. FIGS. 6 to 10 ) was.
  • Essential for the transfer in the illustrated variant of the method according to the invention is the fact that the storage conditions are changed, i. temporarily a greater distance between the top 42 of the unfinished portion and the cutting plane is realized by the clipboard 15 dips quickly into the stationary in the vertical direction conveyor 14.
  • the depositing conditions are successively changed again as the vertical distance is reduced, so that when the nth, that is to say, nth, layer is deposited.
  • Twelfth disc again exactly the same storage conditions prevail, as they have also prevailed when depositing the first nine slices of the portion due to the synchronous movement of food strand 2 and clipboard 15.
  • FIG. 13 Also shows in a diagram the course of the Absenkweges the clipboard 15 on the number of cut slices, which is proportional to the time due to the continuously rotating at the same speed rotating blade 5. It can be seen from the course of the solid lines that the clipboard 15 from the beginning of the generation of a new portion to the cutting of the ninth disc continuously is lowered with the feed rate of the Gutsstrangs. After the ninth disc has been deposited, there is a sharp increase in the lowering such that the intermediate tray 15 dips into the conveyor 14 so that a transfer of the partial portion to the conveyor 14 takes place.
  • the clipboard 15 is from this point no longer in supporting function and therefore - which in the diagram in FIG. 13 is not visible due to the sole consideration of the vertical movement component - pulled out in the horizontal direction from the cross section of the food strand 2, then - as in FIG. 13 recognizable - quickly returned to the starting position (waiting position) to be ready for the next shooting.
  • FIG. 14 shows a diagram in which the course of the speed of the clipboard 15 on the cut slices, ie again over time, is recognizable.
  • the speed (see solid line) is comparatively low and corresponds to the feed rate of the food strand 2.
  • the velocity increases sharply, which causes the clipboard 15 to sink rapidly below the level of the Conveyor 14 corresponds.
  • the clipboard 15 then remains for a short time in its lowest position, during which time - which is not visible in the diagram - in the horizontal direction from the cross section of the food strand 2 is pulled out. Then follows a rapid vertical upward movement, which manifests itself in a high speed with a negative sign.
  • the cycle ends with a short phase at a speed of 0 (in the vertical direction), but at this stage horizontal slotting of the clipboard 15 occurs. This is followed by a downward movement of the clipboard 15 according to the feed rate of the food strand 2, which, however, already begins a new cycle.
  • FIG. 14 in the form of the variant with solid lines recognizable speed peak in the transfer of the partial portion on the conveyor 14.
  • the last-mentioned variant offers the advantage that at the beginning of the cutting process, ie when placing the first disc, the distance from the variant shown in dotted lines is reduced.
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