Abstract:
A washing machine having a housing, a door in the front of the housing, and a drum located in the housing whose interior is accessible through the door. A luminous ring-shaped display element is placed around the porthole so that the user can be informed at a glance of the operating state of the machine, even if is far from the machine. The way in which the ring-shaped element is switched on (in different color or in sequence of different sectors) is indicative of the point of the washing cycle reached by the machine.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process and to a machine for splicing the trailing end of a running expiring web (e.g., a web of cigarette paper) to the leading end of a fresh web while the ends of the webs travel next to each other, in the same direction and at an at least substantially identical speed between a rotary knurling surface and a complementary second rotary surface which may but need not be a knurling surface. The rolls which constitute or mount the carriers for the two surfaces are driven in such a way that each n-th (e.g., each tenth) revolution results in the making of a splice between the leading and trailing ends of the webs. The forwardly and/or rearwardly extending remnants of the fresh and expiring webs are torn off the spliced-together webs at the respective ends of the splice.
Abstract:
A process for packing a liquid, semi-liquid, soft or fine-powder product in a closed foil tube, whereby the product is introduced into the foil tube in the area of a tube form station and taken to an expulsion station which expels the product from web-like expulsion areas extending over the width of the foil tube, and adds sealing seams to the foil tube in these areas. In order to achieve proper expulsion and sealing which is simple and tight using narrow sealing seams, the foil must first be cooled off prior to expulsion.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an apparatus for transferring pieces or object of soft consistency, in particular fillets of fish, from a conveyance in their longitudinal direction into a conveyance in transversal direction and aims to solve the task to convey the fillets further in a stretched position lying side by side. For solving this task, a braking device is used in the region of the transitional position between a feeder and a delivering conveyor, which braking device comprises a driven conveyor whose lower run faces the conveying surface of the delivering conveyor leaving a gap thereto and is driven to rotate endlessly in the direction of movement of the conveying surface and essentially at the speed thereof.
Abstract:
A device for positioning of fish into their correct position for decapitating is disclosed. This device is applicable in fish-processing machines in which the fish lying transverse to their longitudinal extension in receiving troughs of a chain of troughs are fed to a decapitating tool. To this end, a shifting device comprises a shifting element engaging the snout of the fish and being activated and positioned dependent on the detection of the thickness of the fish in the region of its head. A feeler is coupled to a position sensor which emits measuring signals dependent on the position via a control circuit to control a stepping motor which drives the shifting element.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for filleting fishes is disclosed. The fish are cut on their underside by pairs of belly knives and pairs of rib knives, and by pairs of back knives on their dorsal sides. Between the belly knives and the rib knives are pairs of guide strips which guide the lower tail fin on the lower belly spines. Following the rib knives, a further pair of guides are provided and beneath these guides is a conveyor which acts on the underside of the backbone. Between the belly knives and the back knives, pairs of dorsal guides are provided in overlapping relationship. These individual guides are capable of adjustment to suit the shape of the fish.
Abstract:
A machine for making one or more cigarette rods or analogous smokers' products is provided with a cooling apparatus for one or more cooling elements, one for each rod. Each such element has a finger which frictionally contacts and is thus heated by the respective advancing rod preferably immediately downstream of a station where one or more tobacco streams is or are converted into one or more rod-like fillers, and a guide wall which carries the finger and frictionally contacts and is thus heated by the advancing filler at a wrapping station for the rod. The cooling apparatus has at least one part which is cooled by a circulating fluid coolant and is movable into and from surface-to-surface contact with the finger(s) and the guide wall(s).
Abstract:
This innovation describes a slice stacker, designed in particular for cheese slices and other slice-shaped objects, consisting of a brush belt with resting overhead or lower shot belts, which register slices from the top or from the bottom.
Abstract:
An insertion device is used to introduce foil-like material, in particular paper or synthetic segments, between the slices cut by a cutting machine. Such slices are produced in particular in the food industry in the form of sausage, cheese or other food slices with cutting machines. In the insertion device a paper path is unwound from a paper roller and is carried into the cutting range of the circular knife of the cutting machine through an intermittently driven feed device. The insertion device of the cutting machine is arraged on the machine frame so that it can be moved and secured in order to be able to readily clean the insertion device and also to make the corresponding intake area of the cutting machine readily accessible.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an apparatus which can be utilized for the quality inspection of fish fillets and enables the detection of faulty spots resulting from processing deficiencies, such as skin or fin remainders, blood spots, bones, as well as from parasites and others. To this end, fillets are guided to a light emitter by means of a conveyor belt which is made from a material which allows light to pass at low absorption. The light emitter comprises light sources which are arranged out of direct sight by means of screens. Due to its characteristic to allow light to pass by dispersion, the fillet will appear illuminated in darker surroundings.