DE102014000297A1 - Cutting machine for rope-shaped food - Google Patents

Abstract

A sliced food slicer (10) has at least one sliced food slicer and a housing (48) having a rope shaped food infeed area and a sliced food sliced area. In the removal area and / or in the insertion area of the housing (48), a packaging device (40) is provided, on which the cut strand-shaped food can be placed so that a packaging bag on the packaging device (40) and the cut food can be slipped. The packaging device (40) is present within the housing (48).

Description

TECHNICAL AREA

The invention relates to a cutting machine with which can be cut into arbitrarily thick slices of bread, cheese and the like string-shaped food. The cutting machine according to the invention may in particular be a circular blade machine or a gate cutting machine.

STATE OF THE ART

From the DE 198 20 004 C2 is a round knife machine for cutting a sliced strand of food known. This cutting machine has a circular cutting blade, which rotate about its central axis and can also be swung around in a circular path. In this pivoting movement, it is passed through the sliced food to be cut in slices. The rope-shaped food is supplied to the cutting blade in a channel-like shaft and cut into slices. The cut slices are stored standing on a downstream of the cutting blade in the conveying direction bearing surface.

According to the EP 2 045 053 A2 it is envisaged that the storage area for the cut slices and the storage area for the not yet sliced food strand lie in a plane that is oriented obliquely in space. In addition, the bearing means for the cut slices may vibrate. As a result, each cut slice can be easily detached from the cutting blade and does not adhere to the same.

From the DE 20 2006 013 561 U1 is a gate cutting machine for food such as bread in particular known. The gate cutting machine has a motor drive for a feed bar, with which a food is pushed through a cutting device of two knife gates motorized. This motor drive operates continuously, so that the bread is transported through the cutting device at a constant speed.

Known in the prior art cutting machines usually have a packaging device to facilitate the packaging of the cut food strand. For this purpose, the cut food is placed on a plate-shaped tray. Subsequently, a bag or a bag can be put over the tray and the cut food and the food with the bag or bag pushed down from the shelf. The shelf is usually outside the housing of the cutting machine available to allow the most convenient packaging of the food. As a result, crumbs fall into the area outside the cutting machine, in particular when packaging bread. If the cutting machine can be operated by the customers themselves, this creates a visually disadvantageous impression that can not be completely removed even by increased sweeping and cleaning in front of the cutting machine.

PRESENTATION OF THE INVENTION

Based on this prior art, the present invention seeks to provide an improved cutting machine with a packaging device, incurred in the least possible crumbs outside of the cutting machine.

The cutting machine according to the invention is given by the features of claim 1. Useful further developments of the invention are the subject of further claims appended to claim 1.

The cutting machine according to the invention has at least one cutting blade for the rope-shaped food. In the housing of the cutting machine, an insertion region for the strand-shaped foodstuff to be cut and a removal region for the cut strand-like foodstuff are formed. In the removal area and / or in the loading area, a packaging device according to the invention is provided on which the cut strand-shaped food can be placed so that a packaging bag can be slipped over the packaging device and the cut food. The packaging device is present within the housing of the cutting machine.

The arrangement of the packaging device within the housing, the cut food can be packaged within the cutting machine, so that the costs incurred in packaging crumbs usually fall into the housing of the cutting machine. In the area in front of the cutting machine, therefore, should be no crumbs, so that even with frequent use of the cutting machine by customers of a business, a visually appealing impression is maintained.

In a structurally particularly simple embodiment, the packaging device can be fastened to the inside of the housing outer wall.

In an advantageous embodiment, the packaging device may be designed to be movable, in particular hinged or pivotable. The packaging device can thereby be arranged approximately horizontally in a first position, so that the cut food can be placed on the packaging device and packaged in a packaging bag. The approximately horizontal plane of the packaging device can be inclined in all spatial directions by up to 20 degrees from the horizontal. In order to be able to easily clean and maintain the cutting machine despite the packaging device, the packaging device can be arranged approximately vertically in a second position, so that the removal area is freely accessible. In this position, the cleaning or maintenance of the cutting machine and in particular the removal area can be done.

In order to avoid damage to the packaging device and to allow trouble-free operation even with untrained operators, the packaging device may be present in its idle state in the first horizontal position. As soon as the packaging device is no longer held in its second, vertical position, it thus moves back to its first, horizontal position. If the second position can be fixed by locking mechanisms, for example, the packaging device can be moved back even after exceeding a predetermined time. This retraction may preferably be damped so as not to injure the cleaning or maintenance personnel.

Preferably, the packaging device may be movable so that the removal area of the cutting machine is accessible when the packaging device is moved out of its rest position. This movement can be realized in particular by a flap or pivoting.

In a particularly advantageous embodiment, the position of the packaging device may be coupled to the position of the disk support for the cut slices of the food strand. As a result, during a deflection of the disk support by the cut food strand from its rest position, the packaging device can be moved so that the removal area of the cutting machine is accessible. The cut food strand can thus be easily and quickly removed from the removal area, without the packaging device would make this removal difficult. In addition, the cutting machine can thereby be made shorter and thus more compact, since the packaging device can be arranged within the removal area of the cutting machine.

In a particularly space-saving design, the movement of the packaging device can take place in the direction of the rear housing wall of the cutting machine. The packaging device can thus still be present within the cutting machine, and thus be stowed to save space.

Once the cut food strand has been removed from the removal area, the disc support falls back into its rest position, so that the packaging device moves back to its original position. The cut food strand can then conveniently be placed on the packaging device and then packaged in a bag or bag.

In a further advantageous embodiment, the packaging device can assume an inclined position, so that a food strand resting on the packaging device can slide down from the packaging device and slide into a bag or a bag. This slippage can be supported manually, so that even a relatively small inclination of the packaging device may be sufficient. In particular, in an operation of the cutting machine by sales staff so that a particularly hygienic handling of the food strand is guaranteed, since this barely has to be touched by hand.

The packaging device may be formed in particular lattice-shaped or rust-shaped. Alternatively, the packaging device may also have a plate-shaped support in which a plurality of slots or other openings are present. As a result, no crumbs can accumulate on the packaging device as they fall down through the respective openings into the cutting machine. This offers on the one hand a visually appealing impression for the respective users, since no crumbs are more present on the packaging device by the previous user. In addition, no other impurities can accumulate on the packaging device, so that a hygienically safe state of the packaging device is maintained.

Preferably, at least one slot or another opening may be present in the bottom of the removal area of the cutting machine. Through this slot or opening can accumulate in the removal or packaging of the cut food crumbs in the interior fall through the housing of the cutting machine, so that even in the removal area of the cutting machine can not accumulate crumbs. In the interior of the housing, the crumbs can be collected for example in a crumb tray or crumb tray. In such a crumb tray or crumb tray and the costs incurred in the cutting crumbs can be collected.

The packaging device may in particular be present above the product contact area of the removal or insertion area of the cutting machine.

The cutting machine according to the invention is an automatic cutting machine for commercial use, in particular in bakeries, in bakery branches, in bakeries or in self-service outlets, for example in the supermarket or in the discounter. This may in particular be a circular blade machine or a gate cutting machine.

Further advantages and features of the invention can be found in the claims further specified features and the following embodiments.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

The invention will be described and explained in more detail below with reference to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings. Show it:

1 a view of the front of the cutting machine according to the invention,

2 a perspective top view of the placed below a shelf sales cutting machine according to 1 with a sliced bread in the removal area of the cutting machine,

3 a perspective top view of the cutting machine according to 2 in which the sliced bread has been placed on the packaging device, and

4 a perspective top view of the cutting machine according to 2 with folded packaging device.

WAYS FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

The cutting machine according to the invention 10 is formed in the present example as a circular knife machine with a circular blade, not shown. The circular blade is mounted in a conventional manner on a swing arm, which is moved by a motor drive. The motor drive also allows rotation of the circular blade.

The cutting machine according to the invention 10 can according to the 2 to 4 below a store shelf 12 to be placed. The width of the cutting machine 10 Can fit the width of different store shelves 12 be adjusted. The lowest shelf 14 of the shop shelf 12 sticks so far over the cutting machine 10 about that the cutting machine 10 still accessible from above.

The cutting machine 10 has a lower channel wall 20 which can pick up the bottom of a food to be cut. The lower channel wall 20 is slightly inclined forward in the present case. The lower channel wall 20 is approximately perpendicular to a front channel wall 22 available. The cut food strand 16 and the food strand to be cut are thus on the one hand on the lower channel wall 20 and on the other hand on the front channel wall 22 at. The angle of inclination of the lower channel wall 20 should preferably be between 5 degrees and 50 degrees. This means that the front duct wall 22 from the front into the interior of the cutting machine 10 is in it. The lower channel wall 20 and the front channel wall 22 thus form a downward sloping at right angles V-shaped storage area for the not yet cut food on the one hand and for the cut slices of the food in question on the other.

The lower channel wall 20 has an approximately perpendicular slot 24 for the circular knife. As the drive pulley rotates, the circular blade moves through the slot 24 in the lower channel wall 20 so that's in the area of the slot 24 existing food is cut at this point. Based on the drawing then arises left of this slot 24 a food slice. Right of the slot 24 the food is still inseparable. For cutting the food strand is by a transport slide 26 towards the slot 24 pushed. The transport slide has this 26 several claws lying next to each other, which penetrate sufficiently sufficiently from the top into the end of the food during the cutting process. The right in the drawing area of the lower channel wall 20 is thus as a loading area 28 trained for the food to be cut.

To prevent falling over of the sliced slices of food strand is behind the slit 24 a disk support 30 arranged. The disk support 30 is pivotally mounted on an axle, so that subsequent discs the disc support 30 corresponding can move. The left in the drawing area of the lower channel wall 20 is thus as a removal area 32 for storing the cut slices of the food strand 16 and designed to remove it.

In the present example case, the lower channel wall 20 on its left side in the drawing - in the area of the unloading area 32 several slots 34 on. Through these slots 34 Can be used when cutting and packing the cut food strand 16 accumulating crumbs in a below the lower channel wall 20 existing crumb tray fall, leaving the removal area 32 remains relatively clean.

In the removal area 32 is also a packaging device 40 available. The packaging device 40 consists in the present example of a rust 42 on the inside 44 the outer wall 46 of the housing 48 the cutting machine is attached. The packaging device 40 is thus completely within the housing 48 the cutting machine 10 available. With the cutting machine closed 10 For example, during a cutting operation or in the off state of the cutting machine 10 - stands the packaging device 40 thus not over the cutting machine 10 over so that it can not be damaged. At the same time it also can not cause injury to persons due to the outstanding packaging device 40 come.

In addition, the inside of the housing allows 48 the cutting machine 10 arranged packaging device 40 in that the crumbs accumulating during the packaging process are inside the cutting machine 10 land and not in the area in front of the cutting machine 10 fall. This also results in frequent use of the cutting machine 10 by less experienced operators such as customers of a self-service area a visually appealing impression.

The rust 42 is in the present example of several rods 50 educated. In contrast, the packaging device could 40 also have a storage grid or a shelf. On this rust 42 Can the cut food strand 16 according to 3 be hung up. Subsequently, a packaging, in particular a bag or a bag, so over the grid 42 be slipped that the sliced slices of the food strand 16 to come in the packaging. Then the packaging, together with the sliced slices, can be removed from the grid 42 be pushed down. Even less experienced operators of the cutting machine - for example, when a lineup of the cutting machine in self-service area - can thus easily cut the slices of food strand 16 packaging.

By the formation of the packaging device 40 as rust 42 can also be on the packaging device 40 do not accumulate crumbs. The short-term storage of the cut food strand 16 on the rust 42 and while packaging the food strand 16 accumulating crumbs fall from the rust 42 on the lower channel wall 20 the cutting machine 10 and from there through the slots 34 into the interior of the cutting machine 10 where they can be collected, for example, in a crumb tray. Through a door 52 in the front wall 54 of the housing 48 This crumb tray can be emptied and cleaned at regular intervals. Even with a design of the packaging device as a grid or as a storage plate with multiple openings crumbs could accumulate on this.

In the present example case, the packaging device 40 foldable trained. The rust 42 can thus be in a first position in the 1 and 3 is shown approximately horizontally and thus parallel to the removal area 32 the cutting machine 10 to be available. The approximately horizontal plane of the packaging device can be inclined in all spatial directions by up to 20 degrees from the horizontal. In this first position, the packaging of the cut food strand takes place 16 , In this first position is the packaging device 40 completely inside the case 48 the cutting machine 10 available. However, the withdrawal area becomes 32 partially obscured by the packaging device in this position.

Around the removal area 32 For example, to make freely accessible for maintenance or cleaning purposes, the rust 42 therefore be flipped up like this in 4 is shown. In this second, approximately vertical position is the removal area 32 freely accessible. Unless the cutting machine 10 should be made slightly narrower than in the embodiment shown in the drawing, can take place in this second position, the removal of the cut food. Subsequently, the packaging device 40 automatically fold back down so that even in this case, a tray of cut food on the grid 42 it is possible.

To prevent the packaging device 40 in this second position according to 4 remains and thus hampers the regular operation of the cutting machine, because the top cover 56 the cutting machine 10 can not be closed, the packaging device 40 automatically fold down as soon as it is no longer manually held.

The packaging device 40 Moreover, in the present example case, it can be turned back towards the rear housing wall 58 be moved (see 2 ) This movement of the packaging device is in the present example to the deflection of the disc support 30 coupled. Will the disc support 30 through a sliced food strand 16 corresponding 2 from her in 3 deflected illustrated rest position, there is a pivoting of the packaging device 40 , This allows the cut food strand 16 from the withdrawal area 32 the cutting machine 10 be removed without the packaging device 40 this would hinder. The removal area 32 is thus accessible at short notice. After removal of the cut food strand 16 from the withdrawal area 32 falls the disc support 30 back to their rest position, so that the packaging device 40 back to their position above the withdrawal area 32 is pivoted back. This allows easy storage of the cut food strand 16 on the packaging device.

In contrast to the embodiment shown in the drawing, it could also be a gate cutting machine in the cutting machine according to the invention.

QUOTES INCLUDE IN THE DESCRIPTION

This list of the documents listed by the applicant has been generated automatically and is included solely for the better information of the reader. The list is not part of the German patent or utility model application. The DPMA assumes no liability for any errors or omissions.

Cited patent literature

• DE 19820004 C2 [0002]
• EP 2045053 A2 [0003]
• DE 202006013561 U1 [0004]

Claims (12)

Cutting machine ( 10 ) for strand-shaped food - with at least one cutting knife for the rope-shaped food, - with a housing ( 48 ) with a loading area ( 28 ) for the rope-shaped food and with a removal area ( 32 ) for the sliced food ( 16 ), - characterized in that - in the withdrawal area ( 32 ) and / or in the loading area ( 28 ) of the housing ( 48 ) a packaging device ( 40 ) to which the cut strand-shaped food ( 16 ) is placed so that a packaging bag on the packaging device ( 40 ) and the cut food ( 16 ), - the packaging device ( 40 ) within the housing ( 48 ) is available. Cutting machine according to claim 1, - characterized in that the packaging device ( 40 ) on the inside ( 44 ) of the housing outer wall ( 46 ) is attached. Cutting machine according to claim 1 or 2, - characterized in that - the packaging device ( 40 ) is movable, in particular pivotable or hinged. Cutting machine according to claim 3, - characterized in that - the packaging device ( 40 ) is arranged approximately horizontally in a first position, so that the cut food on the packaging device ( 40 ), wherein the approximately horizontal plane of the packaging device ( 40 ) is inclinable in all spatial directions by up to 20 degrees from the horizontal, - the packaging device ( 40 ) is arranged approximately vertically in a second position, so that the removal area ( 32 ) is freely accessible. Cutting machine according to claim 4, - characterized in that - the packaging device ( 40 ) is at rest in the first position. Cutting machine according to one of the preceding claims, - characterized in that - the packaging device ( 40 ) is designed to be movable, in particular foldable or pivotable, in such a way that, in the position moved away from the rest position, the packaging device ( 40 ) the removal area ( 32 ) is accessible. Cutting machine according to claim 6, - characterized in that - the position of the packaging device ( 40 ) so with the position of the disc support ( 30 ) for the sliced food ( 16 ) is coupled, that - at a deflection of the disc support ( 30 ) by a cut stranded food ( 16 ) from a rest position, the packaging device ( 40 ) is movable, that the removal area ( 32 ) is accessible. Cutting machine according to claim 7, - characterized in that - at a deflection of the disc support ( 30 ) by a cut stranded food ( 16 ) from its rest position, the packaging device in the direction of the rear housing wall ( 58 ) is movable. Cutting machine according to one of claims 3 to 8, - characterized in that - the packaging device is pivotable or hinged, that - the packaging device assumes a tilted position, so that an applied food strand is slidable in a packaging means. Cutting machine according to one of the preceding claims, - characterized in that - the packaging device ( 40 ) grid or rust ( 42 ) is trained. Cutting machine according to one of the preceding claims, - characterized in that - in the bottom of the removal area ( 32 ) at least one slot ( 34 ) or at least one opening is present. Cutting machine according to one of the preceding claims, - characterized in that - the packaging device ( 40 ) above the product support area of the removal area ( 32 ) and / or the loading area ( 28 ) is available.

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