WO2014040952A1 - Procédé de correction de portions dans des barquettes d'emballage - Google Patents

Procédé de correction de portions dans des barquettes d'emballage Download PDF

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WO2014040952A1
WO2014040952A1 PCT/EP2013/068604 EP2013068604W WO2014040952A1 WO 2014040952 A1 WO2014040952 A1 WO 2014040952A1 EP 2013068604 W EP2013068604 W EP 2013068604W WO 2014040952 A1 WO2014040952 A1 WO 2014040952A1
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packaging
detection means
portions
packaging tray
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Bernd LASSLOP
Alfred MANDLMEIER
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Gea Food Solutions Germany Gmbh
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    • 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
    • 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
    • B26D5/00—Arrangements for operating and controlling machines or devices for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D5/007—Control means comprising cameras, vision or image processing systems
    • 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
    • B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
    • 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
    • B65B35/00—Supplying, feeding, arranging or orientating articles to be packaged
    • B65B35/56—Orientating, i.e. changing the attitude of, articles, e.g. of non-uniform cross-section
    • B65B35/58—Turning articles by positively-acting means, e.g. to present labelled portions in uppermost position
    • 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
    • B65B57/00—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices
    • B65B57/10—Automatic control, checking, warning, or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of articles or materials to be packaged
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to a method for slicing, portioning and packaging of food portions, wherein at least one food slice cut from a food product and on a to form a portion
  • one or more portions which consists of at least one, preferably several food slices, cut from one or more food products and usually deposited on a storage table.
  • a downstream depositor such as a withdrawal band
  • each of them is placed in a packaging tray.
  • the portion often takes the wrong position relative to the packaging tray.
  • the prior art for example DE 100 39 897 A1, DE 10 2007 036 020 A1 or DE 10 2010 033 526, proposes to correct the position of the portions on the inserter or a conveyor belt arranged upstream of it. As a result, position errors that arise after the correction, but not corrected.
  • the problem is solved with a method for slicing, portioning and
  • Packaging of food portions in which at least one food slice is cut from a food product to form a portion and placed on a food product
  • Packaging trough is detected with a detection means and optionally corrected with a manipulation means.
  • the present invention relates to a method in which one or more portions, each consisting of at least one, preferably more, food slices of one or more food products, which are each located in a track of the slicer, cut off and usually stored on a storage table.
  • a storage table for example, is a simple conveyor belt, preferably each track of the slicing preferably has its own, individually driven conveyor belt.
  • the storage table is a so-called XY table, with which also round and / or shingled portions can be produced.
  • an inserter for example a withdrawal belt or a conventional conveyor belt, and each of these is placed in a packaging tray.
  • Packaging troughs are intermittent or continuous along a
  • the packaging machine Transported packaging machine, wherein the packaging troughs when inserting the respective portion preferably stand still or move.
  • the packaging machine is an intermittently driven one
  • Packaging troughs is transported on.
  • a format which is usually composed of a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows of
  • Packaging troughs is filled, essentially simultaneously, each with a portion. For example, when the insert is withdrawn, each packaging tray of such a format is filled with one portion each.
  • a food product according to the invention is, for example, sausage, ham and / or cheese.
  • a detection means is now provided which permits such misalignment of the portion and / or its slices in the respective one
  • Packaging trough and its extent recognizes.
  • the detection means or an evaluation unit connected thereto preferably an image processing software, which determines the position of the respective portion in the respective packaging tray and compares it with a desired value. If the actual value deviates from the target value to such an extent that a correction is necessary, the evaluation unit determines what this correction must look like and transmits corresponding data / commands to a manipulation means which corrects the position of the respective portion accordingly.
  • the manipulation means is, for example, a pick-and-place robot with a gripper with sliders and / or vacuum, which is the wrong portion within the packaging.
  • the portion is raised thereby.
  • the means may preferably also correct the position of the slices of a portion relative to one another, for example calibrate.
  • the inventive method is very hygienic and very efficient.
  • the inventive method is sure to prevent parts of the portion in the
  • the detection means detects the position of several portions simultaneously.
  • the detection means detects the location of the portion of a format simultaneously. This can be used to correct the location of all incorrect portions before the
  • Packaging troughs are transported by a format and the detection means must not be moved. However, the detection and / or correction of a misalignment can also take place sequentially, wherein this is preferably also done within the time span of a cycle of the packaging machine.
  • the signal of the detection means controls the manipulation means and particularly preferably the detection means checks the corrected position of the respective portion after its correction. If this still deviates from the target position, its position is corrected again.
  • the corrected position of the respective position can also be checked via an additional detection means, for example a camera means, which is preferably located downstream of the first detection means.
  • the packaging machine gets clearance releasing
  • the detection means or the system controller preferably sends a signal / command to the slicing apparatus, the table and / or the inserter in order to change their movements so that the systematic error is at least reduced.
  • the quality of the portion is detected with the detection means or an additional detection means.
  • the detection means detects blood pockets, too much fat or the wrong amount of holes in the cheese.
  • the manipulation means removes an inferior portion from the packaging tray. The empty packaging tray is then disposed of after separation. This provides timely waste separation and the unsuitable packaging can be easily recognized because it is empty. However, it is also possible to dispose of packaging that is filled with an inferior product after their isolation.
  • the detection means checks the shape of the packaging tray. If this is not within permissible tolerances, this packaging tray is discharged downstream.
  • FIGS. 1-3 These explanations are merely exemplary and do not limit the general inventive concept.
  • FIG. 1 shows a slicing device 5.
  • the slicing device 5 has a knife 1 1 which cuts a food product 2 into food slices 12.
  • each food product 2 is transported with a conveying means 4, here two conveyor belts 4, continuously or intermittently in the direction of the cutting plane 6 of the knife 11.
  • the cutting blade 1 1 is fixed to a rotating blade holder 3 and cooperates with a cutting edge cutting together, which define the cutting plane 6 together.
  • After cutting the food slices usually fall on a storage table 1, which is provided with means of transport, on which they are each configured to a portion 14, here a stack.
  • the finished portions 14 are then removed from the cutting blade area and then packaged.
  • the person skilled in the art recognizes that several food products can be cut open at the same time.
  • the slice thickness results from the feed distance of the food product between two cuts. At constant blade rotation speed, the regulation of the slice thickness is carried out via the feed rate of the food product.
  • the slicing device may have a gripper (not shown) per feed path, which may be the rear end 13 of the food product 2 before or during the
  • FIG. 2 shows the portions 14 on a feeder 9, downstream of the
  • Tray 1 is located.
  • This insert 9 for example, a withdrawal tape, puts one or several portions 14 at a time in each case in a packaging tray 13 a.
  • Packaging tray 13 is, as shown by the arrow 15, along a
  • Packaging machine to a so-called form-fill-seal packaging machine, in which the packaging troughs 13 first formed in a flat film web, then filled and then sealed with a lid film.
  • the packaging troughs can be transported continuously along the packaging machine.
  • the packaging machine is preferably a so-called index-packaging machine in which the packaging troughs are cyclically along the
  • the film webs in each case by a format which consists of several rows and / or multiple columns,
  • the insert preferably fills a complete format substantially simultaneously, for example during a withdrawal.
  • the packaging troughs stand when inserting the portions 14.
  • a detection means 8 for example a camera, checks in particular one
  • the detection means preferably has image recognition software which determines the actual position of the respective portion in the packaging tray. The actual position of each portion is then compared with a desired position and as soon as the deviation exceeds a tolerable level, the position of the respective portion is corrected as needed.
  • the detection means or another detection means preferably also checks the quality of the packaging tray, in particular whether it has received the desired shape during deep drawing. If this is not the case, this packaging tray is discharged downstream. Is the quality of
  • Packaging tray is not sufficient, an optionally existing misalignment of the portion is preferably not corrected.
  • the same or still another detection means can then check the quality of a sealed seam, with which the lidding film is attached to the packaging tray, and in the case of a fault, the isolated packaging
  • Figure 3 shows a format, which in the present case consists of three rows and two columns, after filling. While the two left portions are perfect in the
  • Packaging tray have been placed, the location of the portions in the middle
  • a manipulation means 16 here a pick-and-place robot, a gripper (not shown), with which the respective portion can be moved and / or raised, be corrected.
  • the detection means 8 or another detection means preferably checks this correction and if this has been carried out successfully, the packaging machine receives the release, the packaging trays are indexed, for example, to a gas exchange and / or or a sealing station to transport to the
  • Control system on a storage medium in particular, the location of not satisfactorily positioned portions is stored. These stored data are analyzed at regular or irregular intervals, in particular as to whether the misalignment of the portions in the packaging troughs is a systematic error. If such a systematic error is present, a corresponding signal / command to the depositor, the table and / or the
  • the detection means 8 is also used to identify portions having a reduced quality.
  • the detection means may identify blood pockets, too much fat and / or an undesirable amount of holes in the cheese. Such as poorly identified portions are preferably removed from the respective packaging tray.

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un procédé de découpe, de portionnement et d'emballage de portions de produits alimentaires. Au moins une tranche d'un produit alimentaire est découpée et posée sur une table de réception d'où elle est transportée vers un dispositif introducteur qui introduit chaque portion dans une barquette d'emballage.
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