Abstract:
This invention relates to a cutting apparatus (100) for cutting food items (201) conveyed on a conveyor (101) including at least one conveyor belt (102). A cutter (103) is arranged above a gap (104) extending across the at least one conveyor belt. The cutter is positioned in relation to the gap such that the cutting path of the cutter extends through the food items and the gap and below the surface level of the at least one conveyor belt. The cutter is adapted to be connected to a control mechanism for operating crosswise movement of the cutter along the gap. The gap is formed between adjacent elongated supporting means (202, 203) such as rollers with a fixed internal arrangement, where the adjacent elongated supporting means and the cutter is adapted to be connected to a control mechanism for operating back and forth movement of the adjacent elongated supporting means and the cutter parallel to the conveying direction (205) while maintaining the internal arrangement of the adjacent elongated supporting means and the cutter fixed.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a conveyor system (300) and a method for producing a sequence of discrete food items from a plurality of incoming food objects including at least one food item conveyed by an in-feed conveyor including an in-feed conveyor belt (321) such that the distance between adjacent food objects of said sequence of discrete food objects fulfils a predetermined distance criterion. It includes a first conveyor belt (301) adjacent to the in-feed conveyor belt (321) and a second conveyor belt (302) adjacent to the first conveyor belt (301). The adjacent ends of the first and second conveyors belts (301,302) are operable connected together via a junction (303) which can be moved forth and back. The conveyor system (300) further includes an imaging mechanism (320) and a control unit (319).
Abstract:
This invention relates to a cutting system for cutting food products (205) while the food products are conveyed by a conveyor (203). An an arc-shaped system (209) and a cutting means (212) are provided, where the cutting means is adapted to be connected to the arc-shaped system. The arc-shaped system is adapted to be positioned above a surface area of the conveyor on which said food products are resting during the cutting such that the center of the arc-shaped system is around the surface area. A control unit (214) operates the position of the cutting means within the arc-shaped system based on image data.
Abstract:
This invention related to a system (100) for placing ice into boxes (107, 108) containing food products while the boxes are conveyed by a box conveyor device (106), where the boxes have an open upper side (110) and two or more different widths extending across the conveying direction of the boxes, comprising: a control unit (111), an ice in-feed device (120), an ice distribution device (104) configured for receiving ice from the ice in-feed device and for distributing the received ice into the open upper side of the boxes while the boxes pass the ice distribution device, wherein the ice distribution device (104) further comprises an ice width adjuster device for interacting with the received ice prior to distributing the received ice into the open upper side of the boxes while the boxes pass the ice distribution device, where the ice width adjuster device is controlled by the control unit using at least one characteristic parameter relating to the boxes including the width of the boxes as a control command in adjusting the width of the width adjuster device such that the width of the distributed ice in the boxes is essentially the same as the width of the incoming boxes.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a flowline system (100) for processing food products (401). A feeding conveyor (101) is provided for conveying the food products to be processed, a plurality of workstations (102) are arranged along the feeding conveyor, a diverting means (105) are associated with each of the plurality of workstations for diverting food products from the feeding conveyor to the workstations, and a takeaway conveyor (108) assembly is provided, wherein each workstation comprises a release mechanism (109) configured to receive a food product after being processed and to transfer the processed food product onto the takeaway conveyor assembly, and where a control unit (107) is provided to allocate a slot length on the takeaway conveyor assembly in accordance to a length of the processed food product.
Abstract:
A system (1) for placing multiple of food items into containers such that the containers (15, 25) fulfil at least one criterion. The system comprises handling devices (400) arranged along a conveyor belt of a conveyor system and a control unit connected to a position tracker for controlling the handling devices using position data from the position tracker. To allow filling of selected containers while simultaneously conveying other containers past the selected containers, the control unit is configured to instruct an available handling device to temporarily move the selected container from the conveyor system and move the container to a food processing position where the container is retained while the food processing system places at least one food item into the container and to identify, after the at least one criterion is fulfilled, available free space on the conveyor belt for the selected container, and to instruct the handling device to place the selected container into the available space on the conveyor belt.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a cutting device for cutting a food product that is conveyed by a conveyor means the cutting device comprising: a first cutting blade, a moving mechanism attached to said first cutting blade for moving the first cutting blade sideways in either direction across the conveyor means, and a control unit, wherein said first cutting blade is adapted to cut at least one incision in the product from one side of the product, wherein said control unit is adapted to control said first cutting blade and said moving mechanism based on image data of said food product, including utilizing said image data in instructing said moving mechanism to adjust the position of said first cutting blade across said conveyor means.