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EP1854596A1 - Vorrichtung zum Aufschneiden von Lebensmittelprodukten und daran angebundene Verpackungsmaschine - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Aufschneiden von Lebensmittelprodukten und daran angebundene Verpackungsmaschine Download PDF

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EP1854596A1
EP1854596A1 EP07301025A EP07301025A EP1854596A1 EP 1854596 A1 EP1854596 A1 EP 1854596A1 EP 07301025 A EP07301025 A EP 07301025A EP 07301025 A EP07301025 A EP 07301025A EP 1854596 A1 EP1854596 A1 EP 1854596A1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B25/00Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/06Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26DCUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/27Means for performing other operations combined with cutting
    • B26D7/32Means for performing other operations combined with cutting for conveying or stacking cut product
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B9/00Enclosing 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
    • B65B9/02Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material between opposed webs
    • B65B9/04Enclosing 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
    • B65B9/045Enclosing 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 for single articles, e.g. tablets
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26DCUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D1/00Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor
    • B26D1/01Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work
    • B26D1/04Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member
    • B26D1/06Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member wherein the cutting member reciprocates
    • B26D1/08Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting member or particular materials not otherwise provided for; Apparatus or machines therefor; Cutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a linearly-movable cutting member wherein the cutting member reciprocates of the guillotine type

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  • the present invention relates to a machine for cutting agri-food products.
  • the invention also relates to a packaging production machine associated with such a cutting machine for food products.
  • Food products for example bread, pies, pies, cakes, cheeses, seafood terrines, and others are prepared mainly in the form of parallelepipeds or in the form of elongated cylinders. To allow the sale to the consumer of these food products in distribution centers and in supermarkets, it is necessary to cut each parallelepiped or each cylinder into regular slices. After preparation followed or not cooking, the food product is thus cut.
  • a machine for example similar to that of the document EP-0.712.699 , comprises a conveyor driven with an adjustable stepwise movement, between an upstream loading station, where each product is arranged longitudinally, and a downstream slicing station.
  • Lateral drive means synchronized with the conveyor carry crosspieces adapted to come into contact with the rear of the product. Articulated hooks penetrate the back of the product by immobilizing it against a crossbar.
  • a slicing station is composed of a blade connected to means able to communicate to it a vertical displacement, accelerated and then decelerated, in a vertical plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the downstream roller of the conveyor.
  • these slices are packaged, in individual packages or packets of several slices, in packages or trays with one or more concave cells.
  • packaging there are two major categories of machines, thermoformers and barrettetteuses, operating by step in advance.
  • thermoformers and barrettetteuses operating by step in advance.
  • the cells are sealed with a transparent thermoplastic film, possibly under a controlled inert atmosphere, so as to constitute the packaging.
  • a thermoforming machine includes tooling having a hot mold forming cavities, i.e., cells, in a thermoplastic film.
  • a hot mold forming cavities i.e., cells
  • the film coming from a reel is progressively unrolled and laid flat.
  • the cells are thermoformed, so as to form a set of packages, comprising for example a matrix of two to four lines with three columns of cells.
  • the film is driven and the newly formed cells are shifted to the next step, and so on, thanks to drive means of this packaging type of thermoforming packaging machine.
  • a barquetteuse comprises a series of trays preformed and stacked beforehand.
  • An unstacker deposits the trays on a system of advance and shift step by step, driven by drive means of this type of packaging machine type barretteuse.
  • the automatic deposition of the slices in the packages is always done during the advance step of the packaging machine.
  • the machine makes it possible to slice products and to deposit the slices thus obtained directly in the cells of packings coming out of a thermoformer or in the cells of trays of a caster. Due to the position of the cutting means, the barely cut slices fall directly into the cells.
  • the operation of the depot is optimal because the stopping time of the packaging production machine is longer than the time during which the drive means for the packaging assembly are actuated.
  • the control can favorably actuate the cutting means, when the conveying means are stopped.
  • the slicing and deposition is thus done, when the product and the set of packages are stopped, which allows a greater accuracy of deposition in the cells.
  • the machine may comprise translation means for the cutting means and for the conveying means. These translation means can place these cutting means and these conveying means above the set of packages. In this way, the slicer moves and positions itself above the cell lines. This positioning is also done according to the different thicknesses of desired slices.
  • control of the translation means can actuate these same translation means to be able to pass step by step and to stop the cutting means and the conveying means, successively above two to four lines. packaging cell from the first position downstream to the second position upstream.
  • the control of the translation means can actuate these same translation means to be able to pass the cutting means and the conveying means from the second position upstream to the first downstream position, when the drive means for the set of packages are operated.
  • the cutting machine is thus reset by bringing the cutting means and conveying means back to their original position downstream above the first line of cells. This displacement occurs when the packaging assembly moves.
  • the control of the translation means can actuate these same translation means to pass the cutting means and the conveying means to a third downstream position located above a discharge plate of at least one start and a heel of the agri-food product.
  • the third downstream position is located beyond the first downstream position and avoids wrapping unwanted product pieces by consumers.
  • the conveying means may comprise successively, from the loading station upstream to the downstream cutting means, a loading conveyor, an elevator conveyor, a reversing compensator conveyor, a storage conveyor and a cutting conveyor.
  • the machine may include a first camera for monitoring the deposition of the food product cut in the cell of the package and a second camera for monitoring the deposition of the food product at the loading station upstream.
  • the alignments of the products at the start and the cut slices are regulated by cameras and corresponding electronic cards acting sending adjustment signals to the control of the translation means and to the control of the cutting means and the conveying means.
  • a packaging machine is characterized in that it is associated with a cutting machine having one or more of the technical characteristics described above.
  • the cutting means and the conveying means can be positioned cantilevered above the packaging machine.
  • the translation means and the control can be positioned next to the packaging machine.
  • a cutting machine for food products (1) is associated with a machine for producing packaging, thermoforming type (2).
  • the cutting machine comprises a support (3) defining a plane (P).
  • the support (3) is in the form of conveying means (4) with a conveyor, a belt or an endless conveyor belt, set in motion by motor.
  • the conveying means (4) move agri-food products to be cut (6), from upstream to downstream (arrow F in FIGS. 1, 3 and 4), from a loading station (7). upstream to cutting means (8) downstream of the machine (1).
  • the products (6) are in substantially elongate parallelepipedal form ( Figure 2), although many other embodiments are possible. Three products (6) are positioned parallel to one another on the support (3). The cutting of these products (6) will be done in regular slices (9).
  • the products (6) are held at the rear by a claw forming a pusher (10).
  • the claw (10) is positioned above the cutting conveyor (28).
  • the claw (10) retracts during the passage of the products (6).
  • the claw (10) then descends and seized the rear of the products (6) by the heel.
  • the cutting means (8) comprise two cutting blades (11).
  • the two blades (11) are aligned and placed perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the products (6) and the plane (P).
  • the blades (11) each comprise a cutting knife of rectangular shape or sonotrode, a booster for amplifying the vibrations and a converter for creating the vibrations.
  • the assembly, sonotrode, booster and converter, is connected to an ultrasound generator (not shown).
  • the blades (11) are each linearly movable, back and forth and from top to bottom, towards the support (3), in a cutting direction (Arrow D in Figure 2), perpendicular to the plane (P).
  • the length of the blades (11) depends on the width of the products (6) and the cutting displacement (D) of the blades (11) depends on the height of the products (6).
  • the blades (11), associated with their vibration assembly are all carried by a single bracket (12).
  • the bracket (12) is movable from top to bottom, and reciprocally, according to the cutting direction (D).
  • the bracket (12) is mounted on a system including a slideway, belts and a brushless motor (13) performing reciprocating rotations, alternatively, installed inside a housing ( 14) of the cutting machine (1).
  • the thermoformer (2) comprises, upstream of the cutting machine (1), a device (18) for unwinding a thermoplastic film spool.
  • a tool (19) thermoforms the film, which allows for the packaging (16) with their cell (17).
  • the thermoformed film with its cells (17) leaves at an open area (21) of the thermoformer (2).
  • the film on its reel unfolds through drive means (not shown) which slide and transport (arrow T in Figure 1) the thermoformed film, until the output of the packages (16).
  • the packages (16), whose cells (17) are filled with the slices (9), are then closed, downstream of the thermoformer (2), by a heat-sealing film at a corresponding device (22).
  • the cutting means (8) and the conveying means (4) of the cutting machine (1) are located cantilevered above the open area (21).
  • a control actuates the cutting means (8) and the conveying means (4), when the drive means of the thermoformer (2) are stopped.
  • the cutting means (8) operate and drive the blades (11), when the conveying means (4) are stopped.
  • the cutting machine (1) further comprises translational means (23) for the cutting means (8) and the conveying means (4).
  • the translation means (23) comprise a moving element (24) carrying the cutting means (8) and conveying means (4) moving from downstream to upstream and vice versa (Arrow R in FIGS. ), so as to successively present the slices that fall (9) from the cutting means (8) above each line of cells (17).
  • the mobile equipment (24) is mounted on rails with ball bearings and brushless type motorization, called "brushless".
  • a control actuates the translation means (23) step by step, from the downstream position to the position upstream towards the loading station (7), so as to successively fill the first, the second and the third line of cells (17).
  • a system with a transverse teflon stainless steel pallet (27) allows to evacuate a start and a heel products (6).
  • This pallet (27) is located above a line of cells (17) and in a position, located further downstream than the first starting slicing position.
  • the cutting means (8) are positioned above the pallet (27).
  • the conveying means (4) comprise, respectively from downstream to upstream, a cutting conveyor (28), a storage conveyor (29), a reversing compensator conveyor (31), an elevator conveyor (32) and a loading conveyor (33).
  • the loading conveyor (33) is equipped with a stainless steel guide (34) allowing an operator to properly lay the products (6) and position them correctly from the start. Several different guides (34) can be used for different products (6).
  • the downstream end of the loading conveyor (33) feeds the end upstream of the elevator conveyor (32).
  • the compensation compensator conveyor (31) compensates for these movements, to avoid creating a space in the conveying means (4).
  • This reversing compensator conveyor (31) also makes it possible to dissociate the cutting means (8), which are movable downstream upstream and vice versa (R), from the loading station (7) which remains fixed.
  • a downstream return roller (37) of the reversing compensator conveyor (31) is mounted on the moving assembly (24) and follows the movement (R).
  • An upstream drive roller (38) remains stationary.
  • the downstream end of the reversing compensator conveyor (31) feeds the end upstream of the storage conveyor (29).
  • the storage conveyor (29) serves to hold a row of products (6) on hold. Since during the cutting phase the conveying means (4) move step by step, the storage conveyor (29) follows this movement. This keeps the same space between the products (6) that are cut and those waiting. This storage conveyor (29) is not mandatory. The downstream end of the storage conveyor (29) feeds the upstream end of the cutting conveyor (28).
  • the cutting conveyor (28) loads the products and brings them under the blades (11). This cutting conveyor (28) defines the support (3) with the plane (P).
  • the cutting conveyor (28) has a step advance. Cutting is done directly on the cutting conveyor (28) or on an “anvil” saber.
  • the cutting machine (1) is controlled by microprocessor and keypad control console, which will allow programming, selection, coupling and positioning of different cutting means (8) and conveying means (4). ) and translation means (23).
  • the cutting machine (1) is therefore very easily adaptable, depending on the product (6) and regardless of the number of cells (17) of the packaging assembly (16).

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