Multivac Sepp Haggenmueller Se & Co. Kg

Tom Stachel

Hans Christian Weiss

Manfred Achenbach

Dominik Marx

David Boettcher

Nico Bischof

Christian Arend

A method for positioning an article in a slicing machine having a discharge unit includes detecting actual position of the article on the discharge unit by an optical unit data-connected with a control of the slicing machine, automatically comparing the actual position with a predetermined target position by the control, and in the event of a discrepancy above a predetermined acceptance value, automatically displacing the article to the target position by a part of the discharge unit on which the article rests. A transverse position of the article is changed by moving a displacement belt of the discharge unit, and a rotational position of the article is changed by driving parts of the belt at different speeds. The displacement belt is a belt conveyor with belts controllable individually and independently of one another regarding running speed and/or deflecting pulleys displaceable individually and independently of one another in a transverse direction.

Method for positioning an article to be transported and device for carrying out the method

In order to keep anticaking agent-related dead times of a slicing machine as low as possible, excess anticaking agent suspended in the air is sucked off by a suction unit so that as little as possible is deposited on parts of the machine which subsequently have to be cleaned frequently, and/or instead of a single reservoir, several different reservoirs are used, which are switchable in their connection to a spray opening to be supplied, whereby it is easy to switch from an empty to a full reservoir, while the change or refilling of the emptied reservoir can be carried out without dead time during a cutting operation.

Slicing machine with suction unit

In order that grippers on individual tracks of a multi-track slicing machine can be moved and controlled independently of one another, they are not all mounted on a same gripper slide guided on the only slide guide present. Instead, at least two slide guides may be present, each of which carries at least one gripper slide, which in turn either carries several grippers or several gripper slides.

Multi-track slicing machine with independently controllable grippers

In order to be able to shingle articles individual slices or partial portions of slices shingled in a longitudinal direction in a transverse direction relative to the running direction of conveyor units on which these articles are transported, the two conveyor units, on each of which one of the two articles is fully supported, are not brought to overlap in order to achieve the transverse shingling, but one of the articles is transported on its conveyor unit with a lateral overhang to the other conveyor unit, and the other article placed there on the edge side with such a height difference that the two articles can finally overlap and be placed on top of each other. However, the two conveyor units only have to be guided closely next to each other for this purpose without overlapping themselves. This simplifies the design of the overlapping unit and reduces its overall height.

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Kempten, Germany

Tom Stachel