A feed apparatus is provided for feeding a link of sausages to an apparatus for further processing the link of sausages. The feed apparatus includes a frame and a feeder element arranged on the frame for feeding the link of sausages to the further processing apparatus. The feeder element has a surface on which the link of sausages lies during operation and is moved in a feeding direction towards the further processing apparatus. The surface of the feeder element is funnel-shaped and concave, such that the sausages, as they move in the feeding direction, are deflected inwards, relative to the feeding direction, from the peripheral areas of the surface, in sections at least.
B65G 15/14 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts the load being conveyed between the belts
B65G 47/18 - Arrangements or applications of hoppers or chutes
2.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR STACKING FOOD PORTIONS, IN PARTICULAR PATTIES
The invention relates to an apparatus for stacking portions made of food mass, in particular patties, comprising a feeder conveyor belt for feeding the portions in a conveying direction and for dispensing the portions at one end of the feeder conveyor belt, a vertical conveyor arranged downstream from the feeder conveyor belt, for conveying the portions in a substantially vertical direction and having at least one substantially vertically movable platform for receiving portions downstream from the feeder conveyor belt. The vertical conveyor is so designed that at least one portion and in particular a plurality of stacked portions can be dispensed from the platform for further transport. The feeder conveyor belt is also mounted and drivable in such a way that the end of the conveyor belt facing the vertical conveyor can be moved vertically up or down in a continuous or intermittent manner while the portions are being conveyed.
B65G 57/14 - Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack the articles being stacked by direct action of the feeding conveyor the articles being transferred from carriers moving in an endless path adjacent to the stacks
B65G 37/00 - Combinations of mechanical conveyors of the same kind, or of different kinds, of interest apart from their application in particular machines or use in particular manufacturing processes
3.
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING CASED PORTIONS OF PASTY FOOD MASS
A method and a device provide portions of pasty food mass provided in a casing, in particular small sausage portions. In the device, at least a drive of a suspension machine or a drive of a looper horn or a portioning belt drive of a portioning apparatus is controlled by a controller. The controller assures that a defined number of portions is transferred from the portioning apparatus to a first hook of the suspension machine by looper horn at the beginning of a production phase.
A method and a device provide portions of pasty food mass provided in a casing, in particular small sausage portions. In the device, at least a drive of a suspension machine or a drive of a looper horn or a portioning belt drive of a portioning apparatus is controlled by a controller. The controller assures that a defined number of portions is transferred from the portioning apparatus to a last hook of the suspension machine by looper horn at the end of a production phase.
An apparatus is provided for filling and/or portioning food mass on a carrier. The apparatus includes a machine frame, a carrier movably arranged on the frame, for receiving dispensed food mass, and a drive means for moving the carrier. In the apparatus, a mechanical separator is provided for mechanically separating the carrier and the drive means, the carrier is arranged above the separator, the drive means is arranged at least partly below the separator, and the carrier and the drive means are coupled with the aid of magnetic and/or electromagnetic means in such a way that the carrier can be moved by the drive means using magnetic or electromagnetic force.
A loading device is provided for portioning food products into trays, including a feeder belt for receiving and conveying food products into a transfer zone; a conveyor belt for conveying the trays in conveying direction into a loading zone below the transfer zone; and a portioning unit for portioning the food products into the trays. The portioning unit has a first and a second constraining mechanism which are configured to be driven, in each case parallel to the conveying direction and orthogonally to the conveying direction, so as to come sequentially into contact with a tray being moved into the loading zone, in such a way that the movement of the tray is constrained at at least one position in the loading zone. A portioning unit and a method of operating a loading device are also provided.
B65B 43/52 - Feeding or positioning bags, boxes, or cartons in the distended, opened, or set-up stateFeeding preformed rigid containers, e.g. tins, capsules, glass tubes, glasses, to the packaging positionLocating containers or receptacles at the filling positionSupporting containers or receptacles during the filling operation using roller-ways or endless conveyors
B65B 35/12 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by gravity
B65B 35/24 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
B65B 57/04 - Automatic control, checking, warning or safety devices responsive to absence, presence, abnormal feed, or misplacement of binding or wrapping material, containers, or packages and operating to control, or to stop, the feed of such material, containers, or packages
B65B 59/00 - Arrangements to enable machines to handle articles of different sizes, to produce packages of different sizes, to vary the contents of packages or to give access for cleaning or maintenance purposes
A coextrusion head for a food processing machine includes a feed line section having an inner pipe for conducting in the production direction a food mass to be formed into a strand. An inlet end of the inner pipe is connectable to an outlet of a stuffing machine. A housing extends in the production direction from the feed line section and surrounding the inner pipe. A receiving chamber, formed between the inner pipe and the housing, for a casing material to be applied to the strand. The receiving chamber has a housing inlet for the casing material. The feed line section and the housing are integrally embodied and the coextrusion head further includes a die attachment that has a die opening shaped correspondingly to the inner pipe and that is connected to the housing. A food processing machine having a coextrusion head and a corresponding assembly method are disclosed.
A separating device is provided for separating portions of elongate casings filled with food mixture, in particular sausage portions of alginate casings filled with sausage meat. The separating device includes two circulating transport elements; at least one crimping element, each having a fastening section, a crimping section, and a counter holder. According to the invention, the counter holder is flexible such that it applies a preloading force to the crimping element arranged on the opposite transport element to improve the separating effect of the crimping elements.
A filling line is provided and includes a first filling machine having a first machine controller, and one or more second filling machines having a second machine controller, which is selectively operable independently of the first filling machine. The filling line also includes a data interface for connecting the machine controllers to each other for control communication. The machine controllers are configured to be operated reciprocally either in a slave control mode or in a master control mode, depending on control information provided. The slave control mode transmits read and write rights in respect of recipe-relevant process parameters to the machine controller operated in the master control mode, and the master control mode implements the transferred read and write rights in the machine controller operated in the master control mode. A method for operating such a filling line is also provided.
B65B 57/00 - Automatic control, checking, warning or safety devices
B65B 9/10 - Enclosing successive articles or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
An ejector device is provided for food portions, and in particular for sausages. A food portion in a conveying area between two conveyor belts is engaged in a conveying mode and can be conveyed in the conveying direction. It is proposed that the ejector device has at least one adjustment mechanism for ejecting a food portion in an ejection area, which is so designed that the distance of the conveyor belts from each other in the conveying area can be partially varied. A method of ejecting food portions is also provided, in which it is proposed that the food portions be taken out of engagement with the conveyor belts as described above.
B65G 15/14 - Conveyors having endless load-conveying surfaces, i.e. belts and like continuous members, to which tractive effort is transmitted by means other than endless driving elements of similar configuration comprising two or more co-operating endless surfaces with parallel longitudinal axes, or a multiplicity of parallel elements, e.g. ropes defining an endless surface with two or more endless belts the load being conveyed between the belts
B65G 43/08 - Control devices operated by article or material being fed, conveyed, or discharged
B65G 47/34 - Devices for discharging articles or materials from conveyors
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Machines and apparatus for processing and preparing
foodstuffs; meat processing machines; meat processing
machines; automatic sausage fillers; meat cutting machines;
machines for portioning dough; dough dividers; dough
formers; dough extruders; vacuum filling machines; forming
machines; machines for filling foodstuffs; packaging
machines; automatic packaging machines for the food
industry; transport machines; transport belts for the food
industry; accessories and parts for all the aforementioned
goods. Electronic control devices [included in this class] for
machines and apparatus for processing and preparing
foodstuffs, butchery machines, mechanized butchery machines,
automatic sausage fillers, meat cutting machines, machines
for portioning dough, dough dividers, dough formers and
dough extruders, vacuum filling machines, forming machines,
food filling machines, packaging machines, packaging lines,
automatic packaging machines for the food industry,
transport machines, transport belts for the food industry,
cooking, smoking and cooling chambers for food, especially
for meat and fish products, as well as their smoke
generators and exhaust air purifiers; digital scales. Cooking, smoking and cooling chambers for foodstuffs, in
particular for meat and fish products, as well as their
smoke generators and exhaust air purifiers.
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11 - Environmental control apparatus
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Machines and apparatus for processing and preparing foodstuffs, namely, electric food processors, food mixing machines, vacuum filling machines; meat processing machines; automatic sausage fillers, namely, automatic machines for filling sausage casings; meat cutting machines; machines for portioning dough, namely, dough portioners, dough dividers; dough dividers, namely, dough cutting machines; dough formers, namely, dough kneading machines, dough dividing machines, dough rounding machines, dough sheeting machines, dough moulding machines for forming dough in the form of food, such as pizzas, breads, rolls; dough extruders, namely, dough extruding machines; vacuum filling machines; forming machines, namely, burger patty forming machines, meatball forming machines, fondant block forming machines, machines for forming food into bars, sticks, strips, disks; machines for filling foodstuffs; packaging machines; automatic packaging machines for the food industry; transport machines, namely, belt conveyors, chain conveyors and roller conveyors; transport belts for the food industry, namely, belt conveyors, chain conveyors and roller conveyors; accessories and parts for the aforementioned goods, namely, cutting blades being parts of meat cutting machines, belts for belt conveyors, chains for chain conveyors Electronic control devices, namely, electronic controllers for machines and apparatus for processing and preparing foodstuffs, for butchery machines, for mechanized butchery machines, for automatic sausage filling machines, for meat cutting machines, for machines for portioning dough, for dough dividers in the nature of dough cutting machines, for dough formers in the nature of dough kneading machines, and for dough extruding machines, for vacuum filling machines, for metal forming machines, for food filling machines, for packaging machines, for packaging lines comprised of packaging machines, for automatic packaging machines for the food industry, for transport machines in the nature of chain conveyors and roller conveyors, for transport belts for the food industry in the nature of belt conveyors, and for cooking, smoking and cooling chambers for food, especially for meat and fish products, in the nature of cooking ovens, barbecue smokers and refrigerating chambers, as well as for their smoke generators and exhaust air purifiers; digital scales Cooking, smoking and cooling chambers for foodstuffs, in particular for meat and fish products, namely, cooking ovens, barbecue smokers and refrigerating chambers, as well as their smoke generators for cooking and exhaust air purifiers
A cutting machine includes a cutting device and a co-operating conveyor device for conveying food products in a conveying direction. The conveyor device includes at least one conveyor unit having a conveyor belt which is guided by at least one deflection roll and which comes into contact with the food products in the contact area and having at least one guide means for guiding the conveyor belt. The at least one guide means has a first support portion for supporting the conveyor belt at a first height and a second support portion for supporting it at a second height, these heights being spaced apart in a direction extending perpendicularly to the conveying direction, and at least one recess arranged between the first height and the second height, in which the conveyor belt can give way at least partly due to contact with a food product.
A separator is provided for separating portions from elongate casings stuffed with food mass, in particular for separating sausages from alginate casings stuffed with sausage meat. The separator includes two circulating conveyor members spaced apart from one another and drivable by at least one drive element, and at least one crimping member arranged on each conveyor member. It is proposed that the legs of a crimping portion of the crimping members are curved on their side facing an adjacently arranged second crimping member in operation, such that the stuffed casing is first constricted in a constriction region with displacement of the food mass and then severed, producing a desirable shape for the portions separated.
A portioning device is provided for forming portions from elongate casings stuffed with food mass, in particular for forming sausages from alginate casings stuffed with sausage meat. The portioning device includes two circulating conveyor members spaced apart from one another and drivable by at least one drive element, and at least one crimping member arranged on each conveyor member and projecting laterally from the conveyor member. It is proposed that at least one of the crimping members has such a shape, on its functional area that in the conveying area at least partially faces an opposite crimping member, that corrugations, creases and/or folds extending substantially parallel to the conveying direction, in particular, are formed in the constricted portion of the casing, thereby producing a desirable shape for the portions separated.
The present disclosure relates to an image retouching system that automatically retouches digital images by accurately correcting face imperfections such as skin blemishes and redness. For instance, the image retouching system automatically retouches a digital image through separating digital images into multiple frequency layers, utilizing a separate corresponding neural network to apply frequency-specific corrections at various frequency layers, and combining the retouched frequency layers into a retouched digital image. As described herein, the image retouching system efficiently utilizes different neural networks to target and correct skin features specific to each frequency layer.
G06T 3/40 - Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
G06V 30/262 - Techniques for post-processing, e.g. correcting the recognition result using context analysis, e.g. lexical, syntactic or semantic context
Portioning devices and methods for portioning and conveying elongate casings stuffed with a mass. Circulating conveyor belts are arranged adjacent to each other for conveying the stuffed casings. Each conveyor belt has a conveying area which in operation is moved in a conveying direction, and a return area, wherein the stuffed casing is introduced between the conveying areas of the two conveyor belts and can then be conveyed in the conveying direction. At least one divider is arranged on each conveyor belt and projects laterally from the conveyor belt. The dividers of the adjacent conveyor belts cooperate in the conveying areas in such a way that the stuffed casing is constricted. The divider has a constriction portion for engaging with the stuffed casing and which extends, in operation, substantially at a slant relative to a plane defined as perpendicular to the conveying direction.
B65G 47/28 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors arranging the articles, e.g. varying spacing between individual articles during transit by a single conveyor
18.
Method and apparatus for twist linking tubular casings and associated system for stuffing tubular casings
Method and apparatus for twist linking tubular casings for stuffing tubular casings is disclosed. A method for twist linking tubular casings includes twisting a tubular casing such that the number of twists per portion or per group of portions is varied during the processing of a tubular casing. An apparatus for twist linking tubular casings, which is configured to twist the tubular casings to form portions having a variable number of twists per portion or per group of portions, includes a control unit configured to perform the disclosed method for twist linking tubular casings.
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Reseller and value-added reseller services (being retail services) in the field of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries. Installation, maintenance, repair, and cleaning services for processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; machinery installation, maintenance, and repair. Training in the use, operation, and maintenance of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries. Design and development of processing and packaging machines and equipment for use in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; technical consulting services in the field of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; engineering services, namely, engineering of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries.
20.
Apparatus and method for separating individual bowls from a stack of bowls
An apparatus is provided for separating individual bowls from a stack of bowls for receiving foodstuffs. The apparatus includes a machine frame for fixing components of the apparatus, a holding device for holding the stack, a separating device for separating individual bowls from the stack, having a separating element, and a drive device. The holding device has at least one bottom carrier element that is mounted in the region of a bottom of a lowermost bowl of the stack moveably by the device such that it temporarily carries the bowl from below and can be moved away from the region of the bottom of the lowermost bowl so that the lowermost bowl can be separated from the stack in a downward direction while the stack remains in the holding device. In addition, a corresponding method is provided of separating a bowl from a stack of bowls for receiving foodstuffs.
The invention concerns a dough handling unit (1, 1′) for handling dough comprising a housing (8, 8′, 8″), a dough inlet (10, 10′) for introducing dough into the housing (8, 8′, 8″), a dough outlet (12, 12′) for discharge of the dough from the housing (8, 8′, 8″), and a handling chamber for handling the dough, that is arranged within the housing (8, 8′, 8″) along a portion between the inlet and the outlet and is substantially closed off relative to the surroundings, wherein arranged in the handling chamber (2, 2′) is a dough structuring portion (4, 4′, 4″) having a nozzle (6, 6′, 6″) which reduces the flow cross-section for structuring of the dough, and downstream of the nozzle (6, 6′, 6″) the flow cross-section in the dough structuring portion is enlarged again in relation to the reduced flow cross-section in the region of the nozzle (6, 6′, 6″).
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reseller and value-added reseller services, namely, distributorship services featuring processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries Installation, maintenance, repair, and cleaning services for processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; machinery installation, maintenance, and repair Training in the use, operation, and maintenance of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries Design and development of processing and packaging machines and equipment for use in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; technical consulting services in the field of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; engineering services, namely, engineering of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries
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reseller and value-added reseller services, namely, distributorship services featuring processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries Installation, maintenance, repair, and cleaning services for processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; machinery installation, maintenance, and repair Training in the use, operation, and maintenance of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries Design and development of processing and packaging machines and equipment for use in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; technical consulting services in the field of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; engineering services, namely, engineering of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries
This invention relates to a dynamic loading device for horizontal form, fill and seal machine (“HFFS”) and in particular the loading of fresh hamburger patties into a package in an HFFS machine and sealing of said package. This invention involves a dynamic loading device in a form, fill and seal machine for packaging and stacking fresh meat patties. The HFFS machine involves opposing rolls of film wherein the bottom film is drawn to form a package or pocket for food product. The product is dropped into the pocket by a shuttle conveyor while a cylinder raises the base of the pocket to minimize the product drop into the precisely dimensioned pocket. After the product is placed in the package, an upper film is introduced for covering. Before the cover is sealed, the package is generally evacuated of atmosphere. The package is then sealed by the opposing rolls of film.
B65B 59/02 - Arrangements to enable adjustments to be made while the machine is running
B65B 35/50 - Stacking one article, or group of articles, upon another before packaging
B65B 9/04 - Enclosing 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
B65B 47/10 - Apparatus or devices for forming pockets or receptacles in or from sheets, blanks, or webs, comprising essentially a die into which the material is pressed or a folding die through which the material is moved by application of fluid pressure by vacuum
B65B 25/06 - Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products
25.
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING A FOOD SUBSTANCE
The invention relates to an apparatus for processing a food substance, in particular for producing sausage products from minced meat, having a fixed housing which comprises a wall, which can be connected in a fluid-conducting manner to a feed pump and has an exit opening for discharging the food substance. The housing contains within it an element which can be rotated relative to the wall, is intended for partially swirling the food substance within the housing and along which at least some of the food substance which is to be fed flows during operation, and wherein the rotatable element within the housing ends upstream of the exit opening for discharging the food substance.
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for forming a stuffed crust pizza on a continuous high speed basis. The invention can form and deposit a cheese rope in either an ellipse or circular shape, onto a moving sheet of dough with multiple lanes using a waterwheel flow divider. An encoder is mounted to the conveyor feeding the dough to the apparatus. This provides both position information and speed of the dough to a motion controller to guide the movement of the nozzles. A stamping device initially presses an indentation of the cheese shape into the dough sheet and provides a natural resting location for the cheese to be deposited. A set of two nozzles per lane is utilized to form the cross sectional shape of the cheese. Each nozzle forms one half of the total shape of the cheese and the flow to each nozzle is controlled by a waterwheel flow divider.
Casing holding device for filling tubular cases with a pasty foodstuff material. A casing brake, in a portioning position, is in contact with a case drawn on to a filling tube and produces a pressing force between case and filling tube. An adjusting device is configured for moving the casing brake between the portioning position and a casing change position in which the casing brake is uncoupled from the filling tube. The adjusting device has a guide linkage which has a plurality of links and which is adapted for the casing brake in at least a first phase of the movement out of the portioning position into the casing change position to be moved substantially axially relative to the longitudinal axis of the filling tube and to be pivoted in at least a second phase of the movement relative to the longitudinal axis of the filling tube.
A22C 11/04 - Sausage filling or stuffing machines with mechanically-operated piston moving to-and-fro
F16H 21/44 - Gearings comprising primarily only links or levers, with or without slides all movement being in, or parallel to, a single plane for conveying or interconverting oscillating or reciprocating motions
G05G 1/04 - Controlling members for hand-actuation by pivoting movement, e.g. levers
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(1) Installation, maintenance, repair and cleaning services for processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries
(2) Design and development of processing and packaging machines and equipment for use in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries; technical consulting services in the field of processing and packaging machines and equipment used in the sausage, meat, poultry, seafood, prepared food, bakery, cheese and pet food industries
29.
Suspension apparatus for transporting and spreading at least one sausage string and a method
The present invention concerns a suspension apparatus (1) for hanging up and transporting at least one sausage string (2) including a transport device (6) for transporting the at least one sausage string (2), that has at least one carrier hook (8) for carrying the sausage string (2), the hook being movable along a path of movement (10) by means of a guide and drive device. The apparatus further includes a spreading device (14) arranged stationarily relative to the transport device (6) for spreading the sausage string (2). The spreading device has at least one spreading element (16) which is arranged adjacent to the path of movement (10) of the carrier hook (8) and which in operation acts on the sausage string (2) carried by the carrier hook (8) in such a way that the sausage string (2) is spread.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
11 - Environmental control apparatus
Goods & Services
Machines and apparatus for the preparation and processing of foodstuffs; Butchery machines; Mechanical butcher's apparatus; Sausage filling machines; Meat slicing machines; Dough portioning machines; Dough dividers, dough moulds and dough extruders; Vacuum fillers, Moulding machines, Food filling machines; Packaging machines, packaging installations, automatic packaging machines for the food industry; Transport machines, transport belts for the food industry; Parts and fittings for all the above goods. Electronic control apparatus (included in class 9) for machines and for the preparation and processing of foodstuffs, butcher's machines, mechanical butcher's apparatus, sausage filling machines, meat slicers, dough portioning machines, dough dividers, dough moulds and dough extruders, vacuum fillers, moulding machines, food filling machines, packaging machines, packaging installations, automatic packaging machines for the food industry, transport machines, transport belts for the food industry, cooking, smoking and cooling chambers for food, in particular for meat and fish goods, and smoke generators and exhaust air purifiers therefor; Digital scales. Cooking, smoking and cooling chambers for food, in particular for meat and fish goods, and smoke generators and exhaust air purifiers therefor.
31.
Apparatus for closing pasty-substance-filled tubular casings, and method for operating the apparatus
An apparatus for closing pasty-substance-filled tubular casings to form products, in particular for closing sausage-meat-filled casings is disclosed. The apparatus includes a filling tube with an outlet opening, having a brake and having clipper blades, which can be moved toward one another in a direction transverse to a filling direction, and which includes a measuring device, which establishes the caliber of the products in a contactless.
A method is provided for equipping at least one filling tube of an apparatus for filling tubular cases with a gathered tubular case. The method includes opening at least one gripping element of a case gripping device, feeding a gathered tubular case into a region of the at least one gripping element of the case gripping device, and closing at least one gripping element for fixing and axially centering the case. The method also includes moving the filling tube and the gripping device relative to each other towards each other for introducing the filling tube into an interior space of the case, partially opening at least one gripping element, and moving the filling tube and the gripping device relative to each other towards each other, such that the filling tube entrains the case and the case is guided by the gripping elements.
An apparatus for filling tubular cases with a pasty material, such as gathered sausage skin casings with sausage meat, is provided. The apparatus includes at least one filling tube, which is rotatable and drivable about its longitudinal axis and on to which a case which can be filled with the material can be pulled, a receiving portion at which the filling tube is rotatably received, and a drive unit for driving the filling tube. The apparatus advantageously includes a magnetic coupling for making and breaking an at least force-locking torque transmission between the drive unit and the filling tube, which has a drive rotor and a driven roller that is displaceable relative to the drive rotor in the longitudinal direction of the filling tube. Thus, the positioning during filling is reliable and performed with simplified structure. A filling machine including the apparatus is also provided.
A method and an apparatus are provided for the grouped arrangement, orientation and packaging of stacked food products like patty stacks. The method includes feeding a food product by a first feed belt in the direction of a first X-axis, and then ejecting the food product onto a second feed belt to form stacked food products. The method also includes transporting the stacked food products by the second feed belt along a Y-axis generally perpendicular to the X-axis and in the direction of an orientation mask which is arranged above the second feed belt. The stacked food products are oriented by contacting the orientation mask. The oriented food products may therefore be grouped together in oriented rows for packaging when further moved along the Y-axis by the second feed belt. The method and apparatus enable rapid orienting of various types of food products that are typically stacked and packaged.
B65G 47/71 - Devices for transferring articles or materials between conveyors, i.e. discharging or feeding devices adapted to receive articles arriving in one layer from one conveyor and to transfer them in individual layers to more than one conveyor, or vice versa, e.g. combining the flows of articles conveyed by more than one conveyor the articles being discharged to several conveyors
B65G 57/11 - Stacking of articles by adding to the top of the stack the articles being stacked by direct action of the feeding conveyor
B65B 35/44 - Arranging and feeding articles in groups by endless belts or chains
B65B 25/06 - Packaging slices or specially-shaped pieces of meat, cheese, or other plastic or tacky products
B65B 5/06 - Packaging groups of articles, the groups being treated as single articles
B65B 35/50 - Stacking one article, or group of articles, upon another before packaging
B65G 47/24 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors orientating the articles
B65G 47/08 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from a single group of articles arranged in orderly pattern, e.g. workpieces in magazines spacing or grouping the articles during feeding
B65G 47/22 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors
B65B 35/24 - Feeding, e.g. conveying, single articles by endless belts or chains
35.
Apparatus for conveying and processing foodstuffs and related method of operation
A conveyor apparatus for conveying and processing foodstuffs such as meat is provided. The conveyor apparatus includes a filling device, a mincer which can be coupled to the filling device and having an inlet and an outlet, a closure element which can be mounted to the outlet, a signaling device associated with the closure element, and at least one signal line device for the transmission of signals of the signaling device from the closure element to the filling device. The provision of the signaling device and the signal line device allows for prevention of operation of the cutting elements of the mincer when the closure element is not detected to be in a closed position, thereby making maintenance and repair safer to conduct. A method of conveying foodstuffs in accordance with the apparatus is also provided.
An equipping apparatus for and method of equipping a filling tube is provided. The equipping apparatus includes a feed device for feeding a gathered tubular case to a case gripping device, and a case gripping device having gripping elements for gripping and orienting a gathered tubular case. The equipping apparatus further includes a pushing-on member moveable axially relative to a filling tube longitudinal axis for pushing the case on to a filling tube. A detecting device is associated with the gripping elements for sensing the position of at least one of the gripping elements.
An apparatus is provided for filling tubular cases with a pasty material, in particular gathered sausage skin casings with sausage meat. The filling apparatus includes at least one filling tube on to which a case which can be filled with the material can be pulled, a receiving portion receiving a first end of the filling tube, a casing braking unit which is associated with the oppositely disposed second open end and which can be brought into operative connected relationship with the case which has been pulled over the filling tube, and a support device arranged at the receiving portion for the filling tube. The support device has at least one support portion which is variable in spacing relative to the receiving portion and which is adapted to be brought into contact with a gathered case on the filling tube for receiving transverse forces.
A filling apparatus for and method of filling gathered tubular cases is provided. The filling apparatus includes a filling tube onto which a gathered tubular case can be pushed, and a moveable receiving portion which accommodates a first end of the filling tube and which is adapted to move the filling tube into a charging position in which the case can be put on to the filling tube and into a filling position in which the case can be filled. The filling apparatus also includes a pushing-on device which is moveable axially relative to the filling tube longitudinal axis for pushing the case on to the filling tube in the charging position, an axially moveable entrainment ring arranged on the filling tube, and a sensing device for ascertaining the position of the entrainment ring and/or the pushing-on device.
An apparatus is provided for dividing up tubular cases which are filled with a pasty material such as sausage meat. The dividing apparatus includes two circulating transport elements arranged on mutually opposite sides of the case, and the transport elements respectively include one or more dividing elements and a plurality of guide parts, and at least one drive device for the transport elements. The dividing elements are so arranged at the transport elements and are so guided along the case that only one pair of dividing elements can be simultaneously brought into engagement with the case. The dividing apparatus can create various lengths of filled cases with minimal complexity.
Apparatus and methods for orienting a plurality of sausages with respective curvatures. A conveyor device is configured to transport the sausages along a conveyor path. The conveyor device includes a conveyor element on which the sausages can be placed at mutual spacings and with their longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to a conveyor direction of the conveyor element. A turning device is arranged over the conveyor element. The turning device is configured to be brought into contact with each of the sausages and to orient the sausages oriented approximately transversely relative to the conveyor direction of the conveyor element in identical relationship in respect of the curvatures of the sausages.
B65G 47/248 - Devices influencing the relative position or the attitude of articles during transit by conveyors orientating the articles by turning over or inverting them
41.
Apparatus and method for transferring and placing collated sausage links into a packaging item
An apparatus is provided for transferring at least one sausage link into a packaging item. The apparatus includes at least one drivable, rotatable conveyor device having at least one protruding vane, with the conveyor device being adapted and configured in such a way that the at least one sausage link can be placed on the vane in a receiving position, and that by rotating the conveyor device, the at least one sausage link can be placed onto or into the packaging item by the vane in a delivery position. The conveyor device may further include an impeller that forms, in part, a horizontal support surface for a group of sausage links.
Apparatus for orient sausages and methods of orienting sausages. The apparatus has at least one conveyor device with a moveable, in particular circulating, conveyor element on which individual sausages can be placed and transported in a conveyor direction along a path of movement. Two orientation devices are spaced from each other transversely relative to the conveyor direction and which are arranged above the moveable conveyor element, and each having at least one respective guide for laterally guiding the sausages.
Apparatus and process for producing and discharging spherically shaped products from a pasty material. The apparatus includes a feed device for moving the pasty material along a conveyor path, a portioning device connected downstream of the feed device for shaping the pasty material into balls, and a transport device for discharging the balls produced by means of the portioning device. The portioning device has an outlet opening having a plurality of outlets for the balls to be shaped, arranged in mutually juxtaposed relationship so that the delivered products touch each other or are arranged in closely mutually juxtaposed relationship, and the portioning device and the transport device are so arranged relative to each other that regions of the transport device in the transport direction provide an abutment function for the balls which are to be oriented in mutually juxtaposed relationship in a row substantially transversely relative to the transport direction.
An apparatus and method for processing a foodstuff comprises a closed conveyor path, a conveyor device, and a treatment chamber. The conveyor path includes an inlet and an outlet. The conveyor device is positioned within the closed conveyor path and configured to receive the foodstuff from the inlet. The conveyor device is further configured to convey the foodstuff along the closed conveyor path toward the outlet. The treatment chamber is positioned within the closed conveyor path downstream of the conveyor device for receiving the foodstuff from the conveyor device. The treatment chamber includes a rotatably driven first kneading shaft configured to collide the foodstuff within the treatment chamber.
A21C 1/06 - Mixing or kneading machines for the preparation of dough with horizontally-mounted mixing or kneading toolsWorm mixers
B01F 7/00 - Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders
B01F 7/04 - Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a horizontal or inclined axis with paddles or arms
A21C 1/00 - Mixing or kneading machines for the preparation of dough
A22C 5/00 - Apparatus for mixing meat, sausage-meat, or meat products
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Severing apparatus for severing a string of pasty foodstuff material
Severing apparatus (1) for severing a string of pasty foodstuff material, in particular of meat or doughs, into individual portions, comprising a movable and drivable severing knife (2, 2′) having a knife edge (12), and at least one preferably stationary shear bar (8, 8′) associated with the severing knife (2, 2′). The knife edge (12) of the severing knife (2, 2′) has a cutting edge (20, 20′) which is at least portion-wise concavely curved in the longitudinal direction of the severing knife.
B26D 1/36 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis parallel to the line of cut and rotating continuously in one direction during cutting, e.g. mounted on a rotary cylinder
B26D 1/00 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor
B26D 1/28 - Cutting through work characterised by the nature or movement of the cutting memberApparatus or machines thereforCutting members therefor involving a cutting member which does not travel with the work having a cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis substantially perpendicular to the line of cut and rotating continuously in one direction during cutting
B26D 7/06 - Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
A22C 17/00 - Other devices for processing meat or bones
A23P 30/00 - Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the process or apparatus
Apparatus for filling tubular casings with a pasty material, in particular gathered-together sausage cases with sausagemeat. The apparatus includes at least one filling tube which is drivable and rotatable about its longitudinal axis and onto which a casing which can be filled with a material can be drawn, wherein an end of the filling tube is rotatably moveably mounted to a receiving portion and associated with the opposite open end is a sausage case braking unit which can be brought into operative relationship with a casing which has been drawn over the filling tube. Arranged on the receiving portion is a support device which has a support element for the filling tube, that is arranged at a spacing (x) relative to the receiving portion in the longitudinal direction of the filling tube, wherein the support element is adapted to carry transverse forces acting on the filling tube.
Apparatus and methods for producing a string from a pasty material comprising at least an extrusion head which has at least one conveyor conduit for the pasty material to be shaped into a string, wherein the conveyor conduit has an inlet and an outlet, and which has a receiving chamber for a casing material to be applied to the string, wherein the receiving chamber has an entry for the casing material and an exit for applying the casing material to the string surface. Arranged downstream of the extrusion head in the conveyor direction is a deflection device adapted to put the string covered with casing material into a predetermined curvature. The pasty material is pressed to form a string of predetermined length and then the string is covered at least with a pasty material, wherein the string covered with the casing material is deflected through a predetermined angle.
An arrangement including two conveyor screws which are arranged rotatably moveably relative to each other for processing a pasty material like a foodstuff product or the like, having a first conveyor screw and a second conveyor screw which have interengaging helical flights and which in particular are drivable in opposite relationship. The conveyor screws are of different size diameters and/or the conveyor screws have a different number of flights. In addition, the surfaces of the interengaging flights are so shaped and matched to each other that they are in contact with each other along a substantially continuous contact line extending substantially in the longitudinal direction of both conveyor screws to hinder, preferably prevent a return flow of the pasty material.
B65G 33/18 - Screw or rotary spiral conveyors for fluent solid materials comprising a screw or screws enclosed in a tubular housing with multiple screws in parallel arrangements
B65G 33/06 - Screw or rotary spiral conveyors for articles conveyed and guided by parallel screws
A22C 11/08 - Sausage filling or stuffing machines with pressing-worm or other rotary-mounted pressing-members
A21C 1/06 - Mixing or kneading machines for the preparation of dough with horizontally-mounted mixing or kneading toolsWorm mixers
B01F 7/00 - Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders
B01F 7/08 - Mixers with rotary stirring devices in fixed receptacles; Kneaders with stirrers rotating about a horizontal or inclined axis with helices
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AN APPARATUS FOR CONVEYING HARD CONSTITUENTS SEPARATED FROM MINCED MEAT, A MACHINE FOR MINCING MEAT, AND A METHOD OF USE OF THE APPARATUS
The invention relates to an apparatus for conveying hard constituents separated from minced meat. The apparatus comprises a housing (12) which is provided with inlet (14) and outlet (20) openings for the hard constituents, and an inlet opening (16) for a pressurised fluid. Inside the housing a movable part (22) is movable to a first and a second position. The walls of the housing and the movable part enclose a chamber (24). When the movable part is in the first position, the chamber communicates with the inlet opening for the hard constituents, and, when it is in the second position, the chamber communicates with the inlet opening for the fluid and the outlet opening for the hard constituents. The present invention also relates to a machine for mincing meat, and to a method of use of the apparatus.
Apparatus and methods for producing a string of a pasty material, such as sausagemeat. The apparatus includes an extrusion head that includes at least one conveyor conduit for the pasty material to be shaped into a string. The conveyor conduit has an inlet, an outlet, and a receiving chamber for a casing material to be applied to the string. The receiving chamber has an entry for the casing material and an exit for applying the casing material to the string surface. The receiving chamber is also adapted to impart to the casing material, when flowing through the receiving chamber, a movement having at least a rotatory movement component about at least a longitudinal axis of the receiving chamber.
B29C 47/00 - Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor (extrusion blow-moulding B29C 49/04)
The invention concerns a foodstuff conveyor apparatus (1) comprising a foodstuff inlet (3), a foodstuff outlet (5), a conveyor chamber (7) arranged between the inlet (3) and the outlet (5), and a conveyor screw (9) extending in the conveyor chamber (7). According to the invention it is proposed that the conveyor screw has an inlet-side spindle portion (11), an outlet-side spindle portion (13) and a spindle-free portion (15) separating the spindle portions (11, 13). The invention further concerns a method of conveying a foodstuff.
Conveyor apparatus and methods of conveying a foodstuff. A foodstuff conveyor apparatus may include a foodstuff inlet, a foodstuff outlet, and a conveyor chamber coupling the inlet to the outlet. A conveyor screw having an axis oriented longitudinally in the conveyor chamber may be configured to urge the foodstuff from the inlet towards the outlet. The conveyor screw may have a spindle at each end, with a spindle free portion between the spindles. The screw may be positioned in the conveyor chamber so that one spindle is near the outlet, and the other spindle is near the inlet. The spindles may be configured so that the pitch of the screw near the outlet is less than the pitch of the screw near the inlet to provide a mixing and compacting effect as the foodstuff is conveyed from the inlet to the outlet.
The invention concerns an apparatus for and a method of processing foodstuffs, in particular dough. The invention concerns in particular such an apparatus (comprising a foodstuff inlet (3), a foodstuff outlet (5), a closed conveyor path extending between the inlet (3) and the outlet (5), and a conveyor device (7, 37, 47) which is adapted to receive the foodstuff fed by the foodstuff inlet (3) and to convey the foodstuff in the conveyor path in the direction of the foodstuff outlet (5), a treatment chamber (21) which is arranged in the conveyor path downstream of the conveyor device (7, 37, 47) for receiving and post-treating the foodstuff, preferably directly adjacent to the conveyor device, and within which a kneading means (22) is rotationally drivably arranged, wherein the kneading means (22) is adapted to fold, stretch and collide the foodstuff in the treatment chamber (21).
A sausage casing gripping apparatus for use with gathered concertinaed sausage casings and a sausage filling machine. The apparatus includes two gripping elements which are movable relative to each other and which grip the concertinaed sausage casing by a reduction in the intermediate space between the gripping elements and which release the concertinaed sausage casing by an expansion of the intermediate space. The apparatus further includes a drive device for moving at least one of the gripping elements, and at least one lever element for coupling the drive device to at least one gripping element where the gripping element is mounted movably on the lever element.
Suspension devices for suspending strings of sausages in loops. The suspension device may include hooks configured for carrying a loop of the string of sausages and a guide and drive device coupled with the hooks. The guide and drive device is configured for guiding and driving the hooks along a path of movement. The guide and drive device has a drivable circulating drive element for spaced receiving of the hooks and for driving the hooks. The suspension device may include a height-altering device that alters the height of the hooks during the movement of the hooks along the path of movement.
Portioning and/or transport apparatus for portioning and/or transporting sausages. The apparatus includes a conveyor device having at least one conveyor element which is drivable by a drive motor and which can be brought into contact with a sausage for conveying the sausages.
A filling flow divider for portioning a filling substance includes at least two divider elements operatively connected together, each including a stator having a main chamber, a rotor in the main chamber and rotatable about an axis of rotation, and at least two blade elements fitted into the rotor. The blade elements are independently displaceable relative to the rotor in the radial direction as the rotor rotates in the main chamber. The filling flow divider includes at least two connecting devices coupling the rotors of the at least two divider elements such that the rotor and blade elements of one divider element are disposed at a different rotary angle position as the rotor and blade elements of an adjacent divider element.
F16L 41/00 - Branching pipesJoining pipes to walls
G01F 11/00 - Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
A process and an apparatus for producing sausages (28) in which sausage meat is introduced into a tubular case (20) by means of a filling machine (2) and the filled case (20) is divided into portions by means of a twisting-off device (40) for producing twist-off locations (22) so that the result is a sausage chain. The sausage chain is further transported by means of at least two transport devices (6, 8) connected in succession in the sausage chain transport direction (30), and the transport devices (6, 8) can be controlled by means of a control device (38) so that the transport speed of the second transport device (8) in the transport direction is at least at times greater than the transport speed of the first transport device (6).
A device for transporting and processing foodstuffs, in particular meat, includes a feeding device, a grinder with an input and an outlet, and a drive element to drive cutting elements situated in a housing of the grinder. The cutting elements are situated in the housing of the grinder in such a way that the cutting elements can be removed from the housing of the grinder through the outlet by means of a force applied to the side of the input.
The invention relates to a method and a filling apparatus for a machine for filling casings, particularly sausage casings, comprising a filling tube (14) rotatable and drivable about the longitudinal axis (12) thereof, wherein a casing (8) that can be filled by the filling tube (14) can be pulled onto said tube. In addition, a casing brake (26) is provided in a supporting frame (24) at the open end (22) of the filling tube (14), the brake having a brake ring (28), which is rotatably mounted coaxially to the axis of the rotation by means of a mount (34) and a bearing (32). According to the invention, the open end (22) of the filling tube (14) is designed such that it interacts with the brake ring (28) and the casing (8) such that the brake ring (28) can be driven by the filling tube (14) in a friction-fit and/or form-fit manner and torque is transmitted to the casing (8).
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
11 - Environmental control apparatus
Goods & Services
Machines and power driven implements for the food industry,
in particular machines for butcher's shops, power driven
implements for butcher's shops, sausage filling machines,
meat cutting machines, dough portioners, dough dividers, and
dough extruders. Electronic control apparatus in class 9 for the goods
mentioned in classes 7 and 11. Cooling chambers for use in cooking, smoking and cooling of
foods, in particular of meat and fish products and smoke
generators and air cleaners therefor.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
10 - Medical apparatus and instruments
11 - Environmental control apparatus
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
17 - Rubber and plastic; packing and insulating materials
21 - HouseHold or kitchen utensils, containers and materials; glassware; porcelain; earthenware
29 - Meat, dairy products, prepared or preserved foods
Goods & Services
(1) Machines and power driven implements for the food industry, namely sausage filling and portioning machines and systems, vacuum fillers, meat cutting machines, sausage linking apparatus and machines, sausage cutting machines, sausage hanging machines, grinders for use in butcher's and baker's shops, separation grinders for meat and fish, minced meat grinders, coextrusion apparatus, casing welding apparatus, casing appliers, flow dividers (waterwheels), filling heads; dough portioners, dough dividers, dough extruders; electronic control apparatus for the aforementioned goods; commercial ovens for use in conditioning, maturing, smoking and cooking of foods, namely of meat, fish and milk products, smoke generators, air cleaning and purifying units for commercial and industrial use.
