EP2807004A2 - Tranchage et transfert dans l'emballage - Google Patents

Tranchage et transfert dans l'emballage

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EP2807004A2
EP2807004A2 EP13701614.3A EP13701614A EP2807004A2 EP 2807004 A2 EP2807004 A2 EP 2807004A2 EP 13701614 A EP13701614 A EP 13701614A EP 2807004 A2 EP2807004 A2 EP 2807004A2
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product
packaging
slicing
film web
lower film
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Gerd HÜBNER
Klaus Meyer
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GEA Food Solutions Germany GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/27—Means for performing other operations combined with cutting
    • B26D7/32—Means for performing other operations combined with cutting for conveying or stacking cut product
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
    • B26D3/16—Cutting rods or tubes transversely
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/18—Means for removing cut-out material or waste
    • 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
    • B65B25/065—Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products of meat
    • 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
    • B65B25/068—Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products of cheese
    • 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
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/02—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs one or both webs being formed with pockets for the reception of the articles, or of the quantities of material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D2210/00—Machines or methods used for cutting special materials
    • B26D2210/02—Machines or methods used for cutting special materials for cutting food products, e.g. food slicers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D2210/00—Machines or methods used for cutting special materials
    • B26D2210/02—Machines or methods used for cutting special materials for cutting food products, e.g. food slicers
    • B26D2210/08—Idle cutting
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/04—Processes
    • Y10T83/0448—With subsequent handling [i.e., of product]
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/04—Processes
    • Y10T83/0524—Plural cutting steps
    • Y10T83/0538—Repetitive transverse severing from leading edge of work
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T83/00—Cutting
    • Y10T83/202—With product handling means
    • Y10T83/2092—Means to move, guide, or permit free fall or flight of product
    • Y10T83/2192—Endless conveyor

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  • the present invention relates to a method for slicing a product bar into product slices with a slicing apparatus. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a packaging machine for packaging product slices with a plurality of workstations and a slicing apparatus for slicing a product bar into product slices. For putting in, the present invention relates to a system consisting of a slicing device and a packaging machine.
  • Machine length and / or system length are increasingly important.
  • Packaging machine a slicer and / or a system consisting of packaging machine and slicing device to provide that meets high hygienic requirements and the shortest possible length of the machine and / or the system.
  • the object is achieved with a method for slicing a product bar into product slices with a slicing device, wherein the sliced product slices are placed directly on a lower film web or in a packaging tray.
  • the present invention relates to a method for slicing a product bar into product slices.
  • This product bar is in particular a
  • a product rod according to the invention may also be a natural ham.
  • This product bar is cut with a slicing device into product slices.
  • the product rod is transported continuously or intermittently in the direction of a moving, preferably rotating, knife, which separates the product slices from the front end of the product rod.
  • the thickness of the discs is determined by the feed travel that the product rod travels between two cuts.
  • the cut product slices are placed according to the invention directly on a sub-film web or in a packaging tray, which is part of a package, or in a
  • Packaging tray which is also part of a packaging.
  • This object of the present invention has the advantage that at least as far as possible can be dispensed with on conveyor belts, which are normally present next to the slicing device and with which the product slices are transported from the slicing device to the packaging machine and inserted into packaging trays. This shortens the distance within which the
  • Product discs can be contaminated with dirt particles or germs.
  • the system can be made space-saving, which allows the operation of the system even in smaller production facilities.
  • this portion is preferably carried out directly on the lower film web or directly in the packaging tray.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method for cutting a product rod in product slices with a slicing device, in which the cut product slices are placed on a storage table and stored from there to a lower film web and / or in a packaging tray.
  • the food slices are not transported by conveyor belts from the slicing device to the packaging machine.
  • a storage table is provided below the cutting blade on which the cut product slices are first deposited and placed there before on the lower film web and / or in a packaging tray or preferably discarded.
  • the delivery table preferably has at least one, preferably a plurality of transport means, for example endless belts, which move relative to the delivery table.
  • the storage table is movable in a plane, for example a horizontal plane in at least one spatial direction and / or rotatably provided about one or more axes, in particular a vertical and a horizontal axis.
  • the delivery table is located above the lower film web or the packaging tray.
  • the packaging machine operates in cycles, wherein a plurality of, for example, packaging troughs, in particular by deep drawing the lower film web, produced, filled with product slices and closed with a lidding film or only filled and sealed with a lidding film.
  • a so-called format is produced on packages, which preferably consists of a plurality of tracks which are parallel to the running direction of the lower film web, and more preferably a plurality of columns, which are aligned perpendicular to the transport direction of the lower film web.
  • a format may also have only one track with one or more packages.
  • the portions of at least one column are collected on the delivery table and then placed directly on a lower film web or in a packaging tray, in particular discarded. Then, the bottom web of the packaging machine is indexed by one column, which is filled as soon as a sufficient number of portions have been cut on the tray table.
  • this tray is also used to sort out bad portions in which the quality of the cut slices does not correspond to the desired quality and / or which do not have a sufficient number of product slices.
  • the storage table can be used to sort out gating slices incurred when first cutting a food bar, and / or end pieces of the food bar that can no longer be cut open in a controlled manner.
  • One or more of these sorting out can take place, for example, in that the delivery table performs a movement transversely to the transport direction of the lower film web / packaging tray or, for example, performs a movement counter to the transport direction of the lower film web / packaging tray.
  • the bad portions, slices and / or the remaining pieces are preferably conveyed into a container and recycled. Incomplete portions can be used in particular to complete the portion.
  • an incomplete portion, a poor portion, at least one bleed disk and / or an end piece are collected with a collecting means before it is deposited on the lower film web or in the packaging tray, in particular falls.
  • a collecting means before it is deposited on the lower film web or in the packaging tray, in particular falls.
  • a robot may be employed therefor having a catch surface selectively positioned in the drop zone downstream of the cutting blade to catch the incomplete portion, the poor portion, at least one gate and / or an end piece.
  • This robot may also alternatively or additionally comprise a gripper, which removes the incomplete portion, the bad portion, at least one bleed disk and / or an end piece of the lower film web or from the packaging tray again.
  • a message is sent to the downstream packaging machine to mark a portion / package as reject having a bad portion, an incomplete portion, bleed discs and / or an end piece. This portion / package is then removed or changed so that it is a good package.
  • the removal of the packaging is preferably carried out after closing the packaging with a lid film.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method in which a plurality of product slices are deposited on a lower film web and / or in a packaging tray as a portion and / or multiple portions on a lower film web and / or in a packaging tray.
  • a plurality of product slices are deposited on the lower film web and / or in a packaging tray as a portion.
  • the product slices are stacked or shingled, for example.
  • the lower film web and / or the packaging tray is used for shingling relative to the preferably stationary cutting device moves.
  • the slicing device is moved for shingling relative to the preferably stationary lower film web and / or the preferably stationary packaging hollow.
  • the distance between the slicing device and the film web and / or the packaging tray is changed during the creation of a portion.
  • This preferred embodiment of the present invention is particularly advantageous in a stacked package to ensure that the flight curve of each food slice is always the same for a serving.
  • a bottom film web and / or in a packaging tray i. arranged in a packaging. These can be placed one above the other in front of each other and stacked or shingled.
  • Another preferred or inventive object of the present invention is a method in which the cutting blade of the slicing device performs during the onward transport of the lower film web or the packaging tray idle cuts.
  • idle cuts during which the cutting knife carries out its movement, for example its rotary and / or orbital movement, without food slices being separated from the product bar.
  • These idle cuts can be achieved by withdrawing the product bar from the cutting blade and / or moving the cutting blade away from the front end of the food bar.
  • no slices are cut off during the further transport of the lower film web or the packaging tray, which would then have to be buffered.
  • the further transport of the lower film web or the packaging takes place so quickly that the Also, food bars can not deform to fit into them, despite the spacing of the front end from the cutting blade.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method in which a lower film web and / or a packaging tray and the slicing device are moved relative to each other during the slicing.
  • This preferred embodiment of the present invention is particularly advantageous for producing portions on the bottom film web or in the packaging tray.
  • the relative movement can take place in a horizontal and / or in a vertical plane.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method in which a lower film web and / or a packaging tray for filling with at least one food disc is inclined.
  • the packaging tray is inclined for filling with at least one food slice, but preferably with a portion.
  • the insertion is in this case preferably with a storage table, which preferably has an insertion band. Due to the inclination of the packaging, the food slice or portion can be inserted very easily and vibration-free.
  • the inclination preferably takes place about a particularly preferred horizontal axis, which is very particularly preferably aligned transversely to the transport direction of the lower film web or the packaging tray.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method in which a portion consisting of several product slices is weighed during slicing or immediately after slicing in the package.
  • the packaging machine has a scale, which is preferably arranged below the cutting blade.
  • the food slices, which fall into the respective packaging tray or on the lower film web, are weighed immediately. This can already be ensured on site that the respective packaging has the required target weight.
  • the control of the machine or of the system remembers the affected packaging and ejects it from the process or the packaging after the separation of the packaging from the cutting station one or more food slices are removed.
  • the process is accompanied by weighing and, just before reaching the desired weight, the target weight is achieved in a particularly accurate manner via prognosis calculations, ie overweight packaging is avoided with a particularly high degree of probability.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method in which the slicing device has a feed for the product rod and a moving, in particular rotating, cutting blade that cuts product slices from the product bars, in which the movement of the feed and / or the cutting blade in dependence the feed of the lower film web and / or the packaging tray is controlled.
  • the slicing device has a feed, with which the product rod is moved in the direction of the cutting blade.
  • the slicing apparatus comprises a moving, preferably rotating, cutting blade which cuts product slices from the front end of the product bar.
  • the cutting knife For portioning or for further transport of the packages, it may be necessary for the cutting knife to perform so-called idle cuts, during which the cutting knife makes its movement without food slices being separated from the product bar. These idle cuts can be achieved by withdrawing the product bar from the cutting blade and / or moving the cutting blade away from the front end of the food bar.
  • at least one of the movements of the feed and / or the cutting blade is controlled in dependence on the feed of the lower film web and / or the packaging tray.
  • the packaging machine has the so-called "lead", ie the movements of the slicing device follow signals generated by the packaging machine.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method according to which the slicing device has a feed for the product rod and a moving, in particular rotating, cutting blade that cuts product slices of the product bars, wherein the feed of the lower film web and / or the packaging tray depending the movement of the feed and / or the cutting blade is controlled.
  • a plurality of product bars at least temporarily simultaneously, preferably independently, cut open.
  • the slicing machine according to the invention preferably has a plurality of so-called feed paths, along each of which a product rod is transported. In a cyclic movement of the cutting blade, such as a rotation, a plurality of product slices are cut substantially simultaneously.
  • the number of products is different, in particular smaller or larger, or equal to the number of tracks of the packaging machine.
  • a tray table is provided, which can be moved in particular transversely to the transport direction of the lower film web or the packaging tray and on the number of portions, the number the tracks that are loaded at a bar corresponds, can be stored before they are inserted into the packaging trays.
  • not all traces of a preference are filled simultaneously with a portion, but at least partially successively.
  • one slice of the knife is not cut off by all food bars located in the slicing device during one rotation of the knife. This is preferably done, in particular, when the number of products of the food bar is greater than the number of tracks of the packaging machine. To prevent the separation of a food product from the product, this can for example be withdrawn from the cutting plane.
  • a tray table for adapting the simultaneously cut product bars to the number of tracks is used.
  • a tray table for adapting the simultaneously cut product bars to the number of tracks is used.
  • the skilled person understands that this of course also applies if only one product bar is cut open and the number of tracks and / or the number of portions per track and clock is greater than 1.
  • each serving has product slices of different product bars. This can be achieved, for example, by moving a delivery table during the slicing of a portion such that the respective portion is arranged in alternating trajectories of the food slices of the respective food.
  • Another object of the present invention is a packaging machine for packaging product slices, having a plurality of workstations, wherein a workstation is a slicing apparatus.
  • the present invention relates to a packaging machine for packaging product slices with a plurality of workstations, for example a forming station, formed in the packaging trays in a lower film web, for example deep-drawn, optionally an insertion station, in which the product slices are placed in the packaging trays, a sealing station, in a lid film is sealed to the lower film web to hermetically seal the filled packages, and preferably a cutting station in which the packages are singulated.
  • a packaging machine for packaging product slices with a plurality of workstations for example a forming station, formed in the packaging trays in a lower film web, for example deep-drawn, optionally an insertion station, in which the product slices are placed in the packaging trays, a sealing station, in a lid film is sealed to the lower film web to hermetically seal the filled packages, and preferably a cutting station in which the packages are singulated.
  • this packaging machine now additionally has a slicing machine with which a product bar, which is also called a product slab, is divided into a plurality of product slices. These product slices are then packed in packaging.
  • the slicing machine can be provided as an alternative or in addition to an insertion station.
  • the slicing device is provided in the region of the so-called insertion station. Particularly preferably, it is located above the insertion station, so that the cut food slices fall on the lower film web or in the packaging tray.
  • the packaging machine and the slicing device have a common frame.
  • the slicing device comprises means by means of which the lower film web and / or the packaging troughs are guided and / or transported along the packaging machine. These means can move in two opposite directions to produce, for example, shingled portions.
  • the packaging machine is a so-called form-fill-seal packaging (FFS) packaging machine having a forming station in which a packaging tray is formed into a sub-web.
  • FFS form-fill-seal packaging
  • the slicing apparatus is located downstream of the forming station and upstream of a sealing station in which a lid film is sealed to the sub-web.
  • the packaging machine is a so-called tray sealer in which prefabricated individual packaging trays are filled with a packaged product and these packaging trays are finally closed with a cover film.
  • the packaging troughs are stacked delivered to the packaging machine, so that the tray sealer usually has a so-called separation station in which the packaging troughs destacked, ie isolated.
  • the slicing apparatus is downstream of themaschinesmuldenaposzelungsstation and upstream of a sealing station in which a lidding film is sealed to the packaging tray, located.
  • the packaging machine has means by means of which it can be determined where the respective packaging tray is in the packaging machine, so that their transport can be controlled or regulated so that it is just below the flight curve of the food slices for loading and / or in the Storage area of a possibly existing storage table.
  • Another inventive or preferred subject matter of the present invention is a slicing apparatus for slicing a product bar into slices of product having means for guiding and / or transporting the lower foil and / or a packaging tray.
  • Another inventive or preferred subject of the present invention is a slicing device for slicing a product rod in product slices, which has a recess through which a packaging machine can be passed.
  • the slicing device has a frame with a recess which is so large that the packaging machine can be passed.
  • the slicing device can be pushed, for example, from one end of the packaging machine onto the packaging machine and then moved along or against the transport direction of the bottom film web and / or the packaging tray along the packaging machine until the slicing device is in the desired position.
  • This position can be changed selectively.
  • the slicing device can be moved relative to the packaging machine or removed from the packaging machine.
  • the slicing device is at least partially pivotable and / or pivotable, preferably designed to swing up, for example, to facilitate or facilitate the cleaning of the packaging machine and / or the slicing device.
  • Another preferred or inventive subject matter of the present invention is an apparatus for slicing a product bar into product slices and / or a packaging machine having means for preventing product particles from entering the package.
  • the slicing device according to the invention and / or the packaging machine according to the invention now has at least one means which prevents such particles from entering the packaging.
  • the means is a sheet metal or a strip which is arranged in the region of the cutting blade, preferably below the cutting blade and particularly preferably at least partially above the lower sheet or the packaging tray, thereby preventing product particles from entering the packaging.
  • the agent may also be a gas stream, in particular an air stream, which, for example, sucks and / or blows away the particles directly as they are being formed or from the packaging tray.
  • the means is a means that generates, for example, an electrical charge that attracts or repels the product particles and thereby keeps them away from the packaging tray.
  • a further subject of the present invention is a slicing apparatus for slicing a product bar into slices of product having a tray table which is additionally an inserter which places the product slices and / or portions on a bottom film web or in a packaging tray.
  • the slicing device to a tray, which is preferably provided below the cutting blade and fall on the food slices after cutting.
  • This storage table is also an insert, the Place or discard product slices or portions on a bottom film web or in a packaging tray.
  • the storage table is preferably provided with at least one, more preferably with several, endless belts, which, for example, after one or more portions have been completed on the storage table, put them on the lower film web or in a packaging tray.
  • the endless belts can be driven together or independently.
  • the storage table is designed as a so-called shuttle belt.
  • a shuttle belt is an endless belt that has a fast retractable leading edge that is operated while preferably resting the endless belt. As a result, the product slices or portions fall substantially perpendicular to the lower film or into the packaging tray.
  • the delivery table is movable in at least one plane in one or more spatial directions, which are particularly preferably arranged parallel or perpendicular to one another.
  • the table is horizontally movable in a plane in at least one, preferably two, or more spatial directions.
  • the storage table is height adjustable, d. H. it can be adjusted in height in the direction of the cutting blade and away from it.
  • the delivery table can for example be vertically spaced from the product bar and / or the cutting blade such that each product slice has the same or a specifically different drop height in order to achieve, for example, a symmetrical depositing pattern of the product slices.
  • the table and / or the tapes provided therewith are displaced by a defined path in horizontal direction, for example, in order to achieve a pronounced shingling pattern or, when displaced in the opposite direction, for example, a particularly straight stack of discs before cutting off each product slice.
  • the delivery table is rotatable about a horizontal axis.
  • the storage table can be inclined, for example, after completion of a portion, which facilitates depositing on a lower film web or insertion into a packaging tray.
  • the tray table is rotatably provided about a vertical axis to produce, for example, circular portions.
  • the delivery table is designed as a balance, so that it can be determined during the slicing of a portion, whether this has the desired minimum weight.
  • a slicing device for slicing a product rod into product slices or a packaging machine, each in particular as described above, characterized in that it comprises a sensor that detects at least one quality feature of the product slices and / or portions.
  • a quality characteristic is, for example, the temperature, the color, the disc shape and / or the slice size, the portion shape and / or portion size, fat content, so-called "blodspots", too few or too many holes, especially in cheese and / or the presence of foreign bodies
  • the signal from the sensor is preferably forwarded to a controller which, for example, rejects slices of inferior quality, for which the tray, catcher and / or picking means may be used Alternatively or additionally, packs may be provided with a defective product, especially after its closure be sorted out with a lidding foil.
  • Another preferred or inventive subject matter of the present invention is a slicing apparatus for slicing a product rod into product slices and / or a packaging machine, each in particular as described above, having an irradiation means, preferably the gate of the product rod and / or the cut product slices and / or irradiated the cut portion and thereby at least partially disinfected.
  • the slicing apparatus and / or the packaging machine has an irradiation means which irradiates the gate of the food bar and / or the cut product slice and / or the cut portion and thereby at least partially disinfects it.
  • This embodiment of the slicing apparatus has the advantage that the durability of the product slices in the manufactured packages is increased.
  • the cut product slice is irradiated on both cut surfaces.
  • the slicing device or the packaging machine has a means by which the jets of the irradiation medium are directed to the gate and / or the cut product slice and / or the sliced portion.
  • a further subject of the present invention is a packaging machine or a slicing device which has a means for changing the position of the lower film web and / or a packaging tray and the slicing device relative to one another.
  • this can be used to change the vertical distance between the cutting blade and the transport plane of the lower film web and / or a packaging tray.
  • the angle at which the slicing device, in particular the cutting blade, and / or the feed unit of the product rod are arranged relative to the transport plane of the lower film web or the packaging tray, is changed.
  • the drop height, the fall angle or the falling curve can be changed relative to the plane in which the lower film web or the packaging is guided.
  • Another object of the present invention is a system consisting of a slicing device and a packaging machine, which have a common control and / or a common operating unit.
  • a further subject of the present invention is a slicing device and / or a packaging machine, in each case in particular as described above, in which the area of the knife and / or the discharge area of the cut food slice and / or the insertion area with negative pressure and / or a changed atmosphere is provided.
  • the disclosure made on this subject of the present invention applies equally to the other objects of the present invention and vice versa.
  • the cutting and / or shedding and / or loading of the respective food disc takes place under a changed atmosphere compared to the ambient atmosphere.
  • this changed atmosphere is also present in the area of the lower film web or the packaging trough.
  • the knife and / or the discharge area and / or the loading area may be at least partially encapsulated and under reduced pressure and / or a gas having a composition other than air may be introduced into this encapsulation.
  • the negative pressure and / or the changed atmosphere then surrounds the cut-off disc at least temporarily in the packaging, in particular until it is closed with a cover foil.
  • FIGS. 1-6 These explanations are merely exemplary and do not limit the general inventive concept. The explanations apply equally to all articles of the present invention.
  • Figure 1 shows a first embodiment of the present invention.
  • Figure 2 shows the device according to the invention with a
  • FIG. 3 shows a device with a delivery table.
  • FIG. 4 shows an embodiment for loading a format.
  • Figure 5 shows an embodiment in which the number of sliced product bars is smaller than the packages to be filled in a track.
  • FIG. 6 shows the inclination of the packaging troughs during their filling.
  • FIG. 1 shows the packaging machine 27 according to the invention.
  • the packaging machine in the present case is a so-called form-fill-seal packaging machine, in which a bottom film web 14, in particular intermittently, along the packaging machine, here from right to left, as through indicated by the arrow 20, is transported.
  • the packaging machine 27 is shown only schematically and, in the present case upstream (not shown), has a forming station in which the packaging troughs 13 are formed in the lower film web, in particular under the influence of pressure and heat. These packaging troughs are then transported in the direction of the arrow 20 in the region of a slicing device 26, which is part of the packaging machine according to the invention.
  • This slicing device has a feed unit 1 1, for example, an endless belt, and a moving, here rotating, cutting blade 12, on.
  • a product rod 10 is transported by means of the feed unit 1 1 in the direction of the cutting blade, which cuts from the front end of the product rod food slices 25, which fall along a fall curve directly into the packaging tray 13, which is symbolized by the arrow 16.
  • the thickness of the food disc is determined by the feed of the product rod 10 between two cuts.
  • the portion consisting of several product slices 25 is shingled, ie the slices only partially overlap.
  • either the lower film web 14 or the packaging tray between the dropping of two food slices by a certain amount in or against the transport direction 20 of the lower film web 14 are transported.
  • the slicing device 26 may be displaced, at least in part, relative to the lower film web 14 and / or the packaging tray 13 to produce a shingled portion.
  • the position of the slicing device 26 relative to the transport plane of the lower film web 14 and / or the packaging tray 13 can be changed. This can be achieved by changing the position of the slicing device and / or by changing the position of the transport plane of the lower films and / or the packaging tray. For example, this can change the height of fall h.
  • the feed angle 17 of the product bars can be changed. Both measures alone or in combination lead to a change in the flight curve of the food slices.
  • a plurality of product bars 10, which are arranged one behind the other based on the paper plane, can be cut open simultaneously by the knife 12.
  • This embodiment is particularly advantageous if the packaging machine is designed to be multi-lane, ie, if several packages to be filled in relation to the Pap / erebene arranged in a row.
  • the empty sections are preferably carried out until an empty package is in the discharge area of the slicing device.
  • FIG. 2 essentially shows the embodiment according to FIG. 1, wherein in the present case there is additionally a particle catcher 18 with which it is prevented that particles which are torn from the product rod during cutting are introduced into the packaging.
  • the particle catcher is an endless belt with a top belt 18a and a bottom belt 18b, wherein the top belt 18a above the packaging tray 13 or the lower film web 14 and the lower belt 18b below the lower film web 14 or packaging tray 13 is performed.
  • the endless belt is transversely movable to the transport direction 20, preferably provided around two rollers (not shown) circumferentially.
  • particles which deposit on the particle catcher can be transported away from the discharge area of the slicing device and removed from the particle catcher, for example with a cleaning agent, for example a scratch. As a result, a continuous or intermittent removal of demolished particles is possible.
  • Figure 3 shows an embodiment of the packaging machine according to the invention or the slicing device according to the invention, which substantially corresponds to the embodiment of the packaging machine according to Figure 1, but in the present case has a storage table 19.
  • the cut product slices 25 fall onto the storage table 19 and are configured on it, preferably in portions 15.
  • several portions are arranged simultaneously or successively on the tray.
  • a plurality of portions 15 are formed or collected on the tray table 19 before they are deposited on the lower film web 14 or inserted into a packaging tray 13.
  • the storage table preferably at least one conveyor belt, here an endless belt, which rotates in the present case counterclockwise, as soon as one or more portions have been completed.
  • the movement of this conveyor belt can also be used to configure a portion, for example, for shingles.
  • the delivery table is provided as a whole or partially movable in a plane, for example a horizontal plane, in two spatial directions. This can be done by moving the storage table overall and / or only parts of it, for example the endless belt.
  • the storage table is provided adjustable in height, ie its distance from the cutting blade 12 can be changed.
  • the storage table 19 can be pivoted about at least one horizontal and / or vertical axis and / or rotated.
  • the storage table may have one or more conveyor belts which are preferably operable separately from each other.
  • Figure 4 shows a plan view of the packaging machine according to the invention or the slicing device according to the invention.
  • the advantage 21, by which the lower film web 14 and / or the packaging troughs 13 are transported further at one cycle in the present case consists of two columns 29, each with four tracks 28.
  • the delivery table 19 is made so broad (horizontal extension transverse to the transport direction) that two finished portions can be simultaneously loaded into the packaging trays in two tracks.
  • the delivery table 19 is designed to be so long (horizontal extension parallel to the transport direction) that at least the portions for a deduction for two tracks can be completely taken up by it. In the present case, even the portions for the entire print (two columns and four tracks) can be picked up simultaneously from the tray table.
  • the storage table 19 two conveyor belts 23, here two endless transport belts, which can be driven together or independently.
  • the tray table 19 is moved after placing the portions in the upper tracks in the direction 22 of the lower tracks.
  • FIG. 5 shows a slicing device in which two product bars 10 are cut open at the same time.
  • the packaging machine according to the invention or the slicing device according to the invention has a storage table, which, as symbolized by the double arrow, is moved transversely to the transport direction 20 in order to provide all tracks 28 with portions 15, although the number the simultaneously cut product bars 10 is smaller than the number of tracks to be loaded simultaneously.
  • FIG. 6 shows a further embodiment of the slicing device or the packaging machine according to the invention.
  • the storage table is also at the same time a discharge organ, with the insufficient portions or gates 24 are discharged. This is done in the present case in that the conveyor belts of the tray table are moved in a clockwise direction and insufficient portions 24 are transferred to another conveyor belt, with which they are removed from the device according to the invention.
  • the packaging tray is inclined to be filled relative to the transporting direction 20 to facilitate filling.
  • the transport plane of the lower film web and / or the packaging troughs is raised.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé de tranchage d'une barre de produit en tranches de produit au moyen d'une trancheuse. La présente invention concerne par ailleurs une machine d'emballage pour emballer des tranches de produit, cette machine comprenant une pluralité de postes de travail et une trancheuse pour trancher une barre de produit en tranches de produit. L'invention concerne en outre un système composé d'une trancheuse et d'une machine d'emballage.
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