EP3378616B1 - Traitement des produits alimentaires - Google Patents

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EP3378616B1
EP3378616B1 EP18154776.1A EP18154776A EP3378616B1 EP 3378616 B1 EP3378616 B1 EP 3378616B1 EP 18154776 A EP18154776 A EP 18154776A EP 3378616 B1 EP3378616 B1 EP 3378616B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
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    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
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    • 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
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    • 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
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  • the invention relates to a method for generating a plurality of streams of portions each comprising one or more slices which have been obtained by slicing food products by means of a slicing device, in particular a high-speed slicer.
  • the invention also relates to a device which, among other things, comprises a control device which is designed to control the device according to a method according to the invention.
  • EP 2 468 466 A1 a method in which food products are fed in several lanes to a slicing device and are cut into slices by the latter.
  • EP 3 120 981 A2 and EP 2 439 029 A1 show methods of slicing food products.
  • the slicing device When slicing food products, ie when operating systems also known as production lines, which include one or more slicing devices, in particular high-performance slicers, the slicing device has so far formed the "heart" of the system insofar as the operation of the slicing device determines the processes of all other system components . In practice, this leads to problems which are either accepted or which are met with a high level of design and control effort.
  • a fundamentally desired continuous flow of portions in the direction of a unit downstream of the slicing device (also simply: slicer), in particular a packaging machine, cannot be implemented if pauses or interruptions occur in the portion flow.
  • Such interruptions inevitably occur, for example, when the slicer is loaded with new products.
  • buffer devices between the slicer and the packaging machine which has the disadvantage, among other things, that such devices enlarge the entire system.
  • Maintaining an at least somewhat continuous stream of portions in a multi-lane system, the slicer of which simultaneously slices adjacent products in several lanes, turns out to be particularly complex. Differences on the supply side in the individual lanes can be seen in the individual portion streams behind the slicer, in particular in the form of gaps in the individual portion streams. In particular, incomplete portion lines can arise which can only be processed further with difficulty or not at all by the devices following the slicer.
  • Countermeasures are currently comparatively long buffer sections and / or a plurality of so-called transverse distributors in the area of the conveying and sorting sections. The more lane a system is, the greater the effort, especially with regard to the complexity and the costs of the system. Even that which is technically feasible fails in practice either because of the high costs or because the portion throughput is too low, since above all closing gaps in the portion flow takes a lot of time, especially for the so-called transverse distribution and the associated stopping of portions.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a remedy here and to provide possibilities, in particular when using multi-lane slicing devices without unacceptable losses in cutting speed and weight accuracy to ensure that the portions produced by means of the slicing device are handled as simply and continuously as possible on the way to a downstream unit, in particular a packaging machine.
  • the general inventive idea with which this object is achieved consists in an intelligent operation of the slicing device or a system containing one or more slicing devices, in which circumstances such as in particular special operating situations or special operating states are taken into account that were previously at least for the operation of the slicing device played no or only a subordinate role.
  • the "occupancy" of a portion stream is to be understood as the number of portions that are in a stream, based on a unit of length of the transport route along which the portions flow and / or based on a unit of time within which portions are in the Electricity.
  • the occupancy of a stream can consequently also be viewed as the degree of filling of the respective Facility or the facilities under consideration are referred to following the slicing device.
  • This concept of the invention represents a possibility of controlling the slicing - that is, the operation of the slicing device - as a function of a situation at one or more devices of the overall system that is or are downstream of the slicing device.
  • the slicer is controlled by the downstream transport path or a part thereof.
  • a so-called insert which forms part of the transport path, can control the product feed which forms part of the slicer.
  • An insert is designed to transfer format sets comprising a plurality of portions one after the other to a downstream unit, in particular to a packaging machine.
  • a regulation can take place in such a way that the slicer increases the portion output in a lane of the product supply that corresponds to a relatively undercrowded stream or in a lane of the product supply that is relatively corresponds to overcrowded electricity, the portion output is reduced.
  • the allocation of the currents or a variable stored therefrom consequently represent the controlled variable.
  • continuous portion flows can be implemented in the direction of the downstream unit, at least in terms of time average.
  • those devices of the transport path between the slicer and the packaging machine that serve to buffer portions and to form format sets from the portions can be operated optimally with continuous portion flows, particularly with regard to throughput and accuracy, with minimal space requirements at the same time.
  • inserter the Process of inserting the portions or format sets in packaging or for the transfer of the portions or format sets to a packaging machine by a so-called inserter.
  • the cutting is carried out on a track-by-track basis as a function of differences in the assignments of the individual streams. Differences in the occupancy of the currents can consequently be taken into account when operating the slicing device.
  • the cutting is carried out in such a way that differences in the occupancy of the individual streams are minimized.
  • a control can therefore take place in such a way that the individual recorded occupancies or a variable derived therefrom forms the actual value and consequently serves as a control variable, the intended minimization of differences in the occupancies representing the setpoint and consequently serving as the control variable for the control.
  • the occupancy of the streams can be recorded by recognizing gaps between the portions of a respective stream.
  • the occupancy of the streams can each be recorded by determining the portion throughput in a respective stream.
  • One advantage of the invention is that it can be integrated into the control of existing systems purely in terms of software. Any data determined during the conventional operation of a system can be used to determine a measure for the allocation of portions to the flows.
  • the detection of gaps and the determination of portions entering a stream per unit of time is known per se, but has so far been used for other purposes used.
  • Detection devices are basically known which are arranged at one or more points on the transport route between the slicer and packaging machine and are able to differentiate between the presence of a portion and the absence of a portion on the respective device of the transport route. As a result, it is not only possible to determine the presence of gaps per se, but also how many gaps per unit of time are detected at a specific point or in a specific stream.
  • the portion throughput can be determined, for example, by counting portions that pass one or more measuring points per unit of time.
  • the method according to the invention can use these data, which are already present, in order to carry out the slicing or the operation of the slicing device in the manner according to the invention.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream is changed by changing the portion output in an assigned track of the slicing device.
  • the portion output is the number of portions produced per unit of time. As a result, increasing the portion output increases the occupancy of the relevant stream, and vice versa.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream can be changed by changing at least one property of at least one portion in an assigned track of the slicing device.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream is changed by changing the portion yield per product in an assigned lane of the slicing device.
  • the portion yield is the number of portions produced per product, which are therefore produced without a loading interruption that would reduce occupancy. An increase in the portion yield increases the occupancy of the relevant stream, and vice versa.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream is changed by changing the number of loading interruptions in an assigned track of the slicing device.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream is changed by changing a setpoint value for the portion weight in an assigned track of the slicing device.
  • At least one predetermined tolerance can be used here, in particular a tolerance for the portion weight and / or a tolerance for the total weight of a batch comprising a large number of portions.
  • overweight or underweight portions are consequently generated in a targeted manner within a framework permitted by the one or more tolerances, which can be specified in particular by a regulation - for example an FPV (explained in more detail elsewhere).
  • a regulation - for example an FPV explained in more detail elsewhere.
  • the next interruption in loading occurs earlier and the occupancy in the relevant stream is consequently reduced, while in the case of underweight cutting it takes longer until the next interruption in loading and thus the occupancy is increased in the relevant stream.
  • fewer portions can be produced - based on a certain product length - than in the case of underweight cutting, so that the next loading interruption takes place earlier or later accordingly.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream is changed by changing a product sequence in an assigned track of the slicing device, taking into account one or more product criteria.
  • a product criterion can be, for example, the product weight, the product density, the product contour, the product structure and / or the product length.
  • the products to be sliced are consequently brought into a specific sequence on the loading and / or supply side, which, on the basis of the recorded occupancies, either leads to more frequent or less frequent loading interruptions.
  • This can be done, for example, by combining, sorting and rearranging the products. If, for example, relatively heavy and / or relatively long products are cut open one after the other, this reduces the number of interruptions in loading, which increases the occupancy in the relevant stream, and vice versa.
  • the occupancy in a respective stream is changed by changing the product length in an assigned lane of the slicing device, in particular by combining, sorting, rearranging, dividing and / or combining products.
  • the product length can also take place by means of a cutting interruption followed by renewed cutting, but the product residue still present at the cutting interruption remains on the product holder.
  • the product length - and consequently the number of products sliced per unit of time - is "artificially" changed, so to speak. If a product is divided, this requires an additional interruption in loading, which would not have occurred without the product being divided.
  • a device for generating multiple streams of portions, each comprising one or more slices, comprises, according to claim 6, a slicing device, in particular a high-speed slicer, for generating the slices by slicing food products, at least one transport device for transporting the portions in multiple streams a downstream unit, in particular a packaging machine, a detection device for detecting the occupancy of the flows, and a control device which is designed to control the device according to a method as explained above.
  • An essential advantage of the invention is that incomplete format sets and gaps in the portion flow, especially at the insert or buffer, can be avoided or at least minimized with regard to the frequency of their occurrence, which is particularly advantageous in the case of multi-lane slicing devices with individual lane product feed.
  • the creation of format sets and the closing of gaps can be done quickly and easily by the invention with minimal expenditure on equipment, even if two or more lanes are cut and a two or more lane transport path for the portions produced is in the Connection to the slicing device is present, ie when the portions are fed in two or more streams to the downstream unit, which is in particular a packaging machine.
  • the invention saves technical effort. Furthermore, downtimes can be reduced, which would otherwise result from manual corrections of the portion streams or the format sets, for example. In addition, a high degree of flexibility of the overall system can generally be achieved.
  • the invention can make a large number of transverse distributions of portions superfluous.
  • at least with relatively large differences in occupancy between the individual streams in a buffer device i.e. either due to undercrowding or overcrowding (in at least one of the streams)
  • there would possibly be gaps in one of the streams which could even lead to empty packs.
  • a corresponding automation could possibly avoid such negative phenomena.
  • the advantages according to the invention therefore come into play particularly when multi-lane, in particular three- or four-lane, cut open or when a particularly variable format set formation is desired.
  • the invention can relieve the devices downstream of a slicing device for processing portion streams and also ensure a manageable technical effort for these downstream devices.
  • multi-lane cutting and multi-lane format set formation can be designed particularly efficiently by the invention.
  • FIGURE schematically shows an installation for processing food products.
  • the system includes a two-lane slicer 15 in this example, which includes a loading device 39 and a product feed 37.
  • the loading device 39 is used to introduce food products to be sliced, such as sausage bars, cheese bars, ham or pieces of meat into the slicer 15.
  • a product holder 38 also referred to as a product gripper, is shown schematically for each of the two lanes, which is designed to engage with a rear product end in order to feed the product 13 in the direction of a cutting plane 19 in which a cutting knife is located of the slicer 15 moves.
  • the structure and mode of operation of a high-speed slicer will not be discussed in detail at this point. This is known in principle to the person skilled in the art.
  • the slicer 15 and the devices downstream of the slicer 15, which will be discussed in more detail below, are each designed with multiple lanes, here two lanes. This is indicated in the figure by the dash-dotted line.
  • the system can additionally comprise devices connected upstream of the slicer 15, which are not shown in the figure.
  • Such an upstream device can in particular be a so-called product scanner, with which the outer product contour and / or the inner product structure can be determined.
  • These product data can be used by a central control device 35 to control the product feed 37 in such a way that the portions 11 produced by the separation of slices from the products 13 have a certain portion weight, possibly within a predetermined tolerance. Since the products 13 fed to the two tracks can be different, the product holders 38 can be moved independently of one another in the feed direction, at least within certain limits.
  • the person skilled in the art speaks of a track-specific product feed 37.
  • the portions 11 are created from the severed product slices on a portioning device 27 directly adjoining the cutting plane 19 predetermined cutting cycle moving cutting knife the product supply 37 is stopped in the relevant track.
  • Such blank cuts are therefore regular blank cuts in the context of portioned slicing.
  • the other components of the system shown in the figure are a grouping device 29, two buffer devices 31 and an insert 33. These components do not need to be discussed in detail at this point, since the structure, purpose and mode of operation of such devices are known to those skilled in the art are.
  • the purpose of the overall system is ultimately to generate format sets from several portions 11, which have a predetermined arrangement and alignment of the portions 11 with one another (a 2 ⁇ 3 matrix in the figure) and which are fed to a packaging machine 21 by means of the insert 33.
  • This can be done, for example, by inserting individual format sets one after the other into packs, which are in the form of plastic trays (so-called "trays") and in practice are mostly produced on site in the packaging machine 21, for example from a film in a deep-drawing process .
  • the points between the portioning device 27 and the grouping device 29 and between the two buffer devices 31 each indicate that further system components can be provided here.
  • the portioning device 27 can be followed by a portion scales which each generate the actual portion weight for the control device 35 Portion 11 communicates.
  • One or more further buffer devices 31 can be located between the two buffer devices 31 shown.
  • the figure indicates purely schematically a state possible in practice in which a product 13 is cut open in one - here the right - lane, while a product 13 is cut open in the left lane and with the cutting of the next product 13 has not yet started.
  • Such an operating state is one of many potential causes that in practice there is no continuous portion flow following the slicer 15, ie in at least one track, i.e. one of the two portion flows in the figure, gaps 23 arise as shown in the figure are shown purely by way of example once on the portioning device 27 and once on the grouping device 29.
  • the figure shows a situation that was previously unavoidable in the prior art.
  • the invention makes it possible to avoid the creation of such gaps 23.
  • one aspect of the invention is to record the occupancy of the individual portion streams and to cut the products 13 by means of the slicer 15 as a function of the recorded occupations.
  • the details of the invention set out in the introductory part will not be discussed again at this point. In this regard, reference is made to the explanations in the introductory part.
  • the occupancy of the individual streams or the differences in the occupancy of the individual streams can be detected.
  • the detection device 25 can either be designed to determine the number of portions 11 passing the relevant measuring point per unit of time or the presence of a portion 11 on the grouping device 29 shown here as an example for detection of a lack of a portion 11 - that is, of a gap 23 - to distinguish.
  • the detection device 25 like the other system components downstream of the slicer 15 and the packaging machine 21, is connected to the aforementioned central control device 35 of the system.
  • a targeted underweight or overweight cutting for a portion flow can take place using one or more predetermined weight tolerances.
  • the slicer 15 can then be used to cut the portions 11 either slightly heavier or slightly lighter for completion in the individual streams.
  • use can be made of the fact that within a batch a proportion of - depending on the relevant provisions - for example 2% of portions 11 deviating from a predetermined portion weight is permissible.
  • portions 11 for comparatively empty streams which therefore have a "shortage" of portions 11, tend to be cut more easily, ie more portions 11 are obtained from one product 13 and a respective underweight the relevant portions 11 is accepted.
  • Such overweight or underweight cutting is preferably carried out in combination with already known setting options and parameters for forming portions 11 on the slicer 15.
  • the invention consequently makes it possible to “balance” the individual flows over time, especially in the area of the buffer devices 31, and nevertheless to adhere to the general conditions of the prepackaging ordinance (FPV) during the production of a batch of portions.
  • FV prepackaging ordinance
  • differences in the allocation of the individual streams can be compensated for by intelligent pre-sorting of the products to be sliced before loading and cutting and / or intelligent pre-division of the products or division of the products in one in the Control running cutting program takes place before cutting.
  • a loading buffer for example a loading buffer, a loading magazine or a Display to support an operator, for example in the form of a traffic light system, which gives the operator a recommendation for manual loading, removal, addition or re-sorting, especially following a product scanner.
  • a product scale can be provided as a further aid.
  • a product measurement is carried out beforehand so that the products can be intelligently divided depending on the relevant product data.
  • known X-ray scanners can be used to detect holes, in particular for the cutting of cheese.
  • this product data obtained through the measurement can be used for the regular, track-specific product feed in the slicer. An additional product scanner is then not required.
  • all relevant properties of the respective products can serve as the basis for this use of the product data, in particular the product weight, the product density, the product contour (external shape), the product length and the internal product structure.
  • the product structure is generally determined by the distribution of the individual product components. Holes contained in a cheese product can also be referred to as a product component in this sense, since the number, size and distribution of the holes determine how the product can be cut into slices and portions, the specified conditions such as slice thickness, slice weight, number of slices per Portion and portion weight must meet.
  • Other relevant product components are fat and other additives, the proportion and distribution of which in the product are determined and can be incorporated into the control of the product supply.
  • the inlay 33 that controls the slicer and the device for dividing the products. This means that the division of the products in the feed area can already take into account the requirements in the individual tracks or streams with regard to the tendency towards thicker or thinner slices.
  • a differentiation can be made according to the individual streams of the downstream facilities under consideration, it can be differentiated according to differences between individual streams, or it can be differentiated according to the individual downstream facilities.
  • the total allocation with portions can be taken into account downstream of the slicing device without differentiating between individual streams, differences between individual streams or individual downstream devices.
  • the portion output and / or the format set output and / or the occupancy of an insert can be taken into account as an operating state taken into account.
  • the results of a product measurement are taken into account, which is carried out in the feed path of the products before the slicing device or at least before the cutting plane.
  • operating conditions are changed when the portion formation is interrupted.
  • a change in the operating conditions can consequently be waited until after a whole product has been completely sliced.
  • foreseeable or already planned changes to the operating conditions i.e. those changes that are not required due to random events, can be targeted in the event of an inevitable (between two whole products) or an already planned (between two sub-areas of a product) interruption of the portion formation be made.
  • such a shim can also be cut off after an unforeseen interruption. Due to the above-mentioned effects of compressing and relaxing the product, there is a high probability that the first slice will not have the desired quality after an interruption, so that a consistent cutting quality can be achieved with such compensating disks, which are subsequently removed from the process .
  • the slicing device is operated as a function of the allocation of the portion streams.
  • the method according to the invention for generating a plurality of streams of portions can be used in particular in accordance with the initially explained method.
  • This initially explained method for generating multiple streams of portions in which the allocations of the streams are recorded and the slicing is carried out as a function of the recorded allocations, can consequently be used as a further development or supplement, in particular in the sense of a "refinement" of the general idea here presented invention concept are considered to make an - apart from regular blank cuts - interruption-free cutting generally dependent on an operating state. In this operating state, there can either be differences in occupancy between the individual portion streams or a total occupancy of the downstream system parts independent of occupancy differences.
  • a general advantage of this inventive concept is that the time between production and processing, especially packaging, of the portions is minimized, since a whole product or a whole predetermined product part is cut open continuously and thus it is ultimately guaranteed that the sequence produced in this way is immediately after one another formed portions can be processed further directly by the downstream system components. In other words, this means that the portions produced are no longer open for as long as can be the case in the prior art.
  • the invention also relates to a system for processing food products, which has a device for slicing the products, in particular a high-speed slicer, one or more devices downstream of the slicing device for handling portions, each comprising one or more slices obtained by the slicing, and a control device which is designed to operate the system in accordance with one of the above-explained methods according to the invention for operating a system for processing food products.
  • a device for slicing the products in particular a high-speed slicer
  • one or more devices downstream of the slicing device for handling portions each comprising one or more slices obtained by the slicing
  • a control device which is designed to operate the system in accordance with one of the above-explained methods according to the invention for operating a system for processing food products.
  • a major advantage of the invention is that incomplete format sets and gaps in the portion flow, especially at the insert or buffer, can be avoided or at least minimized with regard to the frequency of their occurrence, which is particularly advantageous in the case of multi-lane slicing devices with individual lane product feed.
  • the creation of format sets and the closing of gaps can be done quickly and easily by the invention with minimal equipment expense, even if two or more lanes are cut and a two or more lane transport path for the portions produced is connected to the slicing device is present, ie when the portions are fed in two or more streams to the downstream unit, which is in particular a packaging machine.
  • the invention saves technical effort. Furthermore, downtimes can be reduced, which would otherwise result from manual corrections of the portion streams or the format sets, for example. In addition, a high degree of flexibility of the overall system can generally be achieved.
  • the invention can make a large number of transverse distributions of portions superfluous.
  • at least with relatively large differences in occupancy between the individual streams in a buffer device i.e. either due to undercrowding or overcrowding (in at least one of the streams)
  • there would possibly be gaps in one of the streams which could even lead to empty packs.
  • a corresponding automation could possibly avoid such negative phenomena.
  • the advantages according to the invention therefore come into play particularly when multi-lane, in particular three- or four-lane, cut open or when a particularly variable format set formation is desired.
  • the invention can relieve the devices downstream of a slicing device for processing portion streams and also ensure a manageable technical effort for these downstream devices.
  • multi-lane cutting and multi-lane format set formation can be designed particularly efficiently by the invention.
  • the system according to the invention comprises a two-lane slicer 15 in this example, which comprises a loading device 39 and a product feed 37.
  • the loading device 39 is used to introduce food products to be sliced, such as sausage bars, cheese bars, ham or pieces of meat into the slicer 15.
  • a product holder 38 also referred to as a product gripper, is shown schematically for each of the two lanes, which is designed to engage with a rear product end in order to feed the product 13 in the direction of a cutting plane 19 in which a cutting knife is located of the slicer 15 moves.
  • the structure and mode of operation of a high-speed slicer will not be discussed in detail at this point. This is known in principle to the person skilled in the art.
  • the slicer 15 and the devices downstream of the slicer 15, which will be discussed in more detail below, are each designed with multiple lanes, here two lanes. This is indicated in the figure by the dash-dotted line.
  • the system according to the invention can additionally comprise devices upstream of the slicer 15, which are not shown in the figure.
  • Such an upstream device can in particular be a so-called product scanner, with which the outer product contour and / or the inner product structure can be determined.
  • This product data can be used by a central control device 35 to control the product feed 37 in such a way that the portions 11 generated by the cutting of slices from the products 13 have a certain portion weight, possibly within a predetermined tolerance. Since the products 13 fed to the two tracks can be different, the product holders 38 can be moved independently of one another in the feed direction, at least within certain limits.
  • the person skilled in the art speaks of a track-specific product feed 37.
  • the portions 11 are created from the severed product slices on a portioning device 27 directly adjoining the cutting plane 19.
  • one or more blank cuts are made after the last severed slice of a portion by continuing in each case predetermined cutting cycle moving cutting knife the product supply 37 is stopped in the relevant track.
  • Such blank cuts are therefore regular blank cuts in the context of portioned slicing.
  • the other components of the system shown in the figure are a grouping device 29, two buffer devices 31 and an insert 33. These components do not need to be discussed in detail at this point, since the structure, purpose and mode of operation of such devices are known to those skilled in the art are.
  • the purpose of the overall system is ultimately to generate format sets from several portions 11, which have a predetermined arrangement and alignment of the portions 11 with one another (a 2 ⁇ 3 matrix in the figure) and which are fed to a packaging machine 21 by means of the insert 33.
  • This can be done, for example, in that the insert 33 has individual format sets inserted one after the other into packagings, which are present, for example, in the form of plastic trays (so-called "trays") and in practice are mostly produced on site in the packaging machine 21, for example from a film in a deep-drawing process.
  • the points between the portioning device 27 and the grouping device 29 and between the two buffer devices 31 each indicate that further system components can be provided here.
  • the portioning device 27 can be connected to a portion scale which informs the control device 35 of the actual portion weight of each portion 11 produced.
  • One or more further buffer devices 31 can be located between the two buffer devices 31 shown.
  • the figure indicates purely schematically a state possible in practice in which a product 13 is cut open in one - here the right - lane, while a product 13 is cut open in the left lane and with the cutting of the next product 13 has not yet started.
  • Such an operating state is one of many potential causes that in practice there is no continuous portion flow following the slicer 15, ie in at least one track, i.e. one of the two portion flows in the figure, gaps 23 arise as shown in the figure are shown purely by way of example once on the portioning device 27 and once on the grouping device 29.
  • the figure shows a situation that was previously unavoidable in the prior art.
  • the invention makes it possible to avoid the creation of such gaps 23.
  • one aspect of the invention is to record the occupancy of the individual portion streams and to cut the products 13 by means of the slicer 15 as a function of the recorded occupations.
  • the details of the invention set out in the introductory part will not be discussed again at this point.
  • the occupancy of the individual streams or the differences in the occupancy of the individual streams can be detected.
  • the detection device 25 can either be designed to determine the number of portions 11 passing the relevant measuring point per unit of time or the presence of a portion 11 on the grouping device 29 shown here as an example for detection of a lack of a portion 11 - that is, of a gap 23 - to distinguish.
  • the detection device 25 like the other system components downstream of the slicer 15 and the packaging machine 21, is connected to the aforementioned central control device 35 of the system.
  • Conventional systems for processing food products 13 are often already equipped with the hardware required to carry out the method according to the invention, ie the invention can be integrated into existing systems without additional expenditure on equipment.
  • the system control must be programmed to implement the method according to the invention in order to use the data already determined during the operation of the system for the invention.
  • a targeted underweight or overweight cutting for a portion flow can take place using one or more predetermined weight tolerances.
  • the actual portion weight can be determined, for example, by a so-called FPV scale (not shown in the figure), which serves as a check scale at the end of the entire slicing and packaging line.
  • the slicer 15 can then be used to cut the portions 11 either slightly heavier or slightly lighter for completion in the individual streams.
  • use can be made of the fact that within a batch a proportion of - depending on the relevant provisions - for example 2% of portions 11 which deviate from a predetermined portion weight is permissible.
  • portions 11 for comparatively empty streams which therefore have a "shortage" of portions 11, tend to be cut more easily, ie more portions 11 are obtained from one product 13 and a respective underweight the relevant portions 11 is accepted.
  • Such overweight or underweight cutting is preferably carried out in combination with already known setting options and parameters for forming portions 11 on the slicer 15.
  • the invention consequently makes it possible to “balance” the individual flows over time, especially in the area of the buffer devices 31, and nevertheless to adhere to the general conditions of the prepackaging ordinance (FPV) during the production of a batch of portions.
  • FV prepackaging ordinance
  • differences in the allocation of the individual streams can be compensated for by intelligent pre-sorting of the products to be sliced before loading and cutting and / or intelligent pre-division of the products or division of the products in one in the Control running cutting program takes place before cutting.
  • various additional devices can be used as aids, for example a loading buffer, a loading magazine or a display to support an operator, for example in the form of a traffic light system that recommends manual loading, removal, addition or re-sorting to the operator especially after a product scanner.
  • a product scale can be provided as a further aid.
  • a product measurement is carried out beforehand so that the products can be intelligently divided depending on the relevant product data.
  • known X-ray scanners can be used to detect holes, in particular for the cutting of cheese.
  • this product data obtained through the measurement can be used for the regular, track-specific product feed in the slicer. An additional product scanner is then not required.
  • all relevant properties of the respective products can serve as the basis for this use of the product data, in particular the product weight, the product density, the product contour (outer shape), the product length and the internal product structure.
  • the product structure is generally determined by the distribution of the individual product components. Holes contained in a cheese product can also be referred to as a product component in this sense, since the number, size and distribution of the holes determine how the product can be cut into slices and portions, the specified conditions such as slice thickness, slice weight, number of slices per Portion and portion weight must meet.
  • Other relevant product components are fat and other additives, the proportion and distribution of which in the product are determined and can be incorporated into the control of the product supply.
  • the inlay 33 that controls the slicer and the device for dividing the products. This means that the division of the products in the feed area can already take into account the requirements in the individual tracks or streams with regard to the tendency towards thicker or thinner slices.

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  1. Procédé pour produire une pluralité de flux de portions (11) comprenant chacune une ou plusieurs tranches obtenues en tranchant des produits alimentaires (13) au moyen d'un dispositif de tranchage (15), en particulier au moyen d'une trancheuse à haute performance,
    dans lequel
    - des produits (13) disposés les uns à côté des autres dans plusieurs voies sont amenés à une lame de coupe du dispositif de tranchage (15) se déplaçant dans un plan de coupe (19),
    - les tranches sont séparées des produits (13) au moyen de la lame de coupe,
    - des portions (11) sont formées à partir des tranches séparées, et
    - les portions (11) sont transportées en une pluralité de flux vers une unité (21) disposée en aval, en particulier vers une machine d'emballage,
    caractérisé en ce que
    les occupations des flux sont détectées, et le tranchage est effectué en fonction des occupations détectées.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que
    le tranchage est effectué individuellement par voie en fonction des différences dans les occupations des flux individuels, et/ou le tranchage est effectué de telle sorte que les différences dans les occupations des flux individuels soient minimisées.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2,
    caractérisé en ce que
    que les occupations des flux sont détectées chacune par la reconnaissance de lacunes (23) entre les portions (11) d'un flux respectif et/ou par la détermination du débit de portions dans un flux respectif, et/ou en ce que l'occupation dans un flux respectif est modifiée en changeant l'éjection de portions et/ou au moins une propriété d'au moins une portion (11) dans une voie associée du dispositif de tranchage (15), et/ou en ce que l'occupation dans un flux respectif est modifiée en changeant le rendement en portions par produit (13) dans une voie associée du dispositif de tranchage (15), et/ou
    en ce que l'occupation dans un flux respectif est modifiée en changeant le nombre d'interruptions de chargement dans une voie associée du dispositif de tranchage (15).
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'occupation dans un flux respectif est modifiée en changeant, dans une voie associée du dispositif de tranchage (15), une valeur de consigne pour le poids de la portion, de préférence en utilisant au moins une tolérance prédéterminée, en particulier une tolérance pour le poids de la portion et/ou une tolérance pour le poids total d'un lot comprenant une pluralité de portions (11).
  5. Procédé selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'occupation dans un flux respectif est modifiée en changeant, dans une voie associée du dispositif de tranchage (15), l'ordre des produits en amont du plan de coupe, en tenant compte de critères des produits, en particulier du poids du produit, de la densité du produit, du contour du produit, de la structure du produit et/ou de la longueur du produit, et/ou en ce que l'occupation dans un flux respectif est modifiée en changeant, dans une voie associée du dispositif de tranchage (15), la longueur du produit, en particulier en combinant, triant, réarrangeant, divisant et/ou réunissant des produits (13).
  6. Dispositif pour produire une pluralité de flux de portions (11) comprenant chacune une ou plusieurs tranches, comprenant
    - un dispositif de tranchage (15), en particulier une trancheuse à haute performance, pour produire les tranches en tranchant des produits alimentaires (13),
    - au moins un dispositif de transport (27, 29, 31, 33) pour transporter les portions (11) en une pluralité de flux vers une unité (21) disposée en aval, en particulier vers une machine d'emballage,
    caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les moyens supplémentaires suivants :
    - un moyen de détection (25) pour détecter les occupations des flux, et
    - un moyen de commande (35) réalisé pour commander le dispositif par un procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5.
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