EP0955137B1 - Machine à débiter en tranches - Google Patents

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EP0955137B1
EP0955137B1 EP99108216A EP99108216A EP0955137B1 EP 0955137 B1 EP0955137 B1 EP 0955137B1 EP 99108216 A EP99108216 A EP 99108216A EP 99108216 A EP99108216 A EP 99108216A EP 0955137 B1 EP0955137 B1 EP 0955137B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/27—Means for performing other operations combined with cutting
    • B26D7/32—Means for performing other operations combined with cutting for conveying or stacking cut product
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form

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  • the invention relates to a machine for cutting a strand of material into slices with a cutting device having a circular knife with a Feeder for the crop strand to be cut and one Recording device for the cut slices, the at least one Has footprint on which the cut discs from the The cutting device can be moved away, the cut from the crop strand Discs with their underside essentially upright on the Standing area and secured against falling over by means of a support device and the feed device and the feed device are essentially extend horizontally against the substantially vertical cutting plane.
  • a disadvantage of this known machine is that it takes up space of the large circular knife is very large. This leads in particular problems when such a machine in salesrooms, such as in particular Shops with limited space to be set up.
  • JP 08038105 A A cutting machine with a reorientation of the cut slices in the Comparison with the section plane of the estate strand is still in JP 08038105 A.
  • This machine has a disc system device to an orderly storage of the cut slices on one of the b
  • the cutting device is arranged downstream of the cutting device guarantee.
  • the known machine is not with a disc support provided, which allow the cut discs to be placed upright should. Rather, the cut discs are cut with their cut surface placed on the conveyor belt, here not the formation of a stack, but the Removal is provided in shingled or individual arrangement of the discs. It is therefore not possible to create a package of the cut slices, which in the essentially the same shape as the original estate strand.
  • a generic machine is for example from DE 37 06 485 C2 known.
  • This machine which is also provided for dividing the crop strand, is designed as a table or counter device.
  • the cutting device is in one Housing arranged below the transport cross section of the material strand.
  • the rotating circular knife is attached to a drive arm, which is one to the Feed direction parallel axis is rotatable.
  • the drive arm is over a The crank mechanism actuates and executes an oscillating swivel movement.
  • To a The circular knife adheres to the material to be cut at least on one side prevent, the drive arm carrying the circular knife is wedge-shaped. In Connection with the wedge shape of the knife in cross section in its Edge area, the drive arm is designed so that a tangent to the end of the housing runs approximately through the cutting edge of the knife.
  • the invention has for its object such a machine develop that damage to the material to be cut even then is excluded if this is due to deformation or compressive forces is very sensitive.
  • this task solved according to the invention in that the circular knife rotates on a drive arm and that the contact surface with the feed direction of the crop strand one such an angle includes that between the cut slices and the Section of the Gutsstrang a wedge-shaped gap for the drive arm Cutting device is formed.
  • the creation of the wedge-shaped gap ensures that the last slices already cut off from one of the contact patch non-directional movement of the drive arm from this due to Frictional forces are entrained, creating the desired loaf-like Washer arrangement would be disturbed. It is especially with compact machines namely very often the case that the axis of rotation of the drive arm is not far from one vertical central plane of the loaf of bread is arranged so that the drive arm within the funding cross section with respect to the contact surface of the disks both a downward and also performs an upward movement.
  • Best cutting results can be achieved if the angle between the footprint and the feed direction between 5 ° and 15 °, preferably 10 °, is.
  • Developing the invention further, it is proposed that at the transition from one Footprint of the feed device to the footprint of the receiving device for the cut slices a sloping in the feed direction Stage is provided. Due to this level, it can be prevented that a Conceived disc in the last phase of the cutting process into one Gap between the knife and the contact surface of the discharge device forming shaft bottom can penetrate, especially sensitive Cuttings can be damaged.
  • the contact surface of the feed device with its Knife plane parallel front side extends so far in the feed direction that a Upper edge of the end face a shear bar to the end edge of the cutting knife no tearing or breaking occurs even in the final phase of the cutting process of the material to be cut.
  • the axis of rotation of the Drive arm is arranged above the conveyor cross section of the crop strand.
  • the Footprint of the feed device is so close to the knife level be that the top edge of the face of the footprint and the cutting edge the circular knife such as cutting edge and counter cutting edge - as described above - cooperate, whereby a very good cutting result can be achieved.
  • the machine 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is used for cutting through Dashed lines indicated loaves of bread 2 in slices 3, of which in Fig. 1st For the sake of simplicity, only the last, just cut off disc 3 is shown.
  • the machine 1 has a feed device 4, which is in the form of a sheet formed shaft is designed.
  • the loaf of bread 2 to be cut lies with his Bottom on the top of a manhole bottom 5 and is thereby with a the known feed device not shown in the figures in the feed direction (Arrow 6) advanced to a cutting device 7 described later.
  • the shaft is in the area of the feed device 4 (but also in the area of a downstream of the cutting device 7 Receiving device 8 for the cut discs 3) with his Floor 5 is arranged inclined at approximately 45 ° to the horizontal.
  • the loaf of bread 3 supports therefore not only on the shaft floor 5, but with a lateral surface also from a shaft wall 9 arranged at right angles to it.
  • the cutting device 7 consists of a rotatable circular knife 10, the is mounted in a drive arm 11 which can also be driven in rotation.
  • the drive of the Circular knife 10 takes place with the aid of a belt drive, which is inside a housing 12 of the drive arm 11 completed and therefore before bread crumbs and flour dust is protected.
  • the drive arm 11 rotates about its axis of rotation 13 in the clockwise direction (Arrow 14), whereas the circular knife 10 about its axis of rotation 15 against the Rotates clockwise (arrow 16).
  • the drive arm 11 rotates uniformly with the circular knife 10 this penetrates - as can be seen in FIG. 1 - in one Gap between the feed device 4 and the receiving device 8.
  • the circular knife 10 is curved so that the nascent realized slices, starting from the cutting edge 17, from the Disks 3 facing side surface of the circular knife 10 is deflected.
  • the Housing 12 of the drive arm 11 is in its axis of rotation 13 of the drive arm 11 facing end region in the longitudinal section is wedge-shaped and therefore takes place sufficient space in the wedge-shaped gap between the one just cut off Disc 3 and the disc package (not shown) in front of it due to the inclination of the contact surface 19 of the shaft bottom 20 of the Recording device 8 is present.
  • the angle ⁇ between the footprint 19 and the feed direction (arrow 6) or the shaft bottom 5 of the feed device 4 is 10 °.
  • An angle ⁇ with which a housing end portion of the drive arm 11 is inclined with respect to the plane of the circular knife 10, also lies in of this size.
  • the angular velocity of the circular knife 10 is approximately ten times greater than that Angular speed of the drive arm 11, which results in a very good Cutting quality can be realized.
  • the rotating drive arm 11 with the circular knife 10 is covered by a knife protection box 21, which is only a small Width extends and is also partially indicated in Fig. 1.
  • the cross section of the machine 1 is essentially pentagonal, the Shafts of the feed device 4 and the receiving device 8 from a beveled Page 22 are accessible.
  • a square or Rectangular cross-section of the machine housing results in connection with the location the axis of rotation 13 of the drive arm 11 has a particularly compact design, at the same time the advantages of a simple and safe support of the loaf of bread 2 on the shaft floor 5 and the shaft wall 9 are given
  • the cut-off slices 3 are prevented from falling over by a support device secured, so that successively a disk package in the form of the original Loaf of bread 2 builds up.
  • the support device is due to the feed movement of the Loafs of bread 2 and thus also the feed movement of the slice package from that on her adjacent first slice 3 advanced synchronously with the loaf of bread 2, so that when cutting all the slices 3 always a support in the form of the previously cut disc 3 is present.

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  1. Machine (1) de découpage d'un cordon (2) de produit en tranches constituée d'un dispositif (7) de coupe qui a un couteau (10) circulaire, d'un dispositif (4) d'apport du cordon (2) de produit à découper et d'un dispositif (8) de réception des tranches (3) découpées, qui a au moins une surface (19) sur laquelle les tranches découpées se dressent et sur laquelle elles sont éloignées du dispositif (7) de coupe, les tranches (3) découpées du cordon (2) de produit se tenant par leur côté inférieur sensiblement de chant sur la surface (19) sur laquelle elles se dressent et étant empêchées de tomber au moyen d'un dispositif d'appui et le dispositif (4) d'apport et la direction d'avance s'étendant sensiblement horizontalement par rapport au plan de coupe sensiblement vertical, caractérisée en ce que le couteau (10) circulaire tourne sur un bras (11) d'entraínement tournant et en ce que la surface (19) sur laquelle les tranches se dressent fait avec la direction d'avance du cordon de produit un angle (α) tel qu'il est formé entre les tranches (3) découpées et la surface de coupe du cordon (2) de produit un intervalle cunéiforme pour le bras (11) d'entraínement du dispositif (7) de coupe.
  2. Machine suivant la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce qu'une enveloppe (12) du bras (11) d'entraínement est cunéiforme dans une direction longitudinale s'étendant parallèlement à la direction d'avance.
  3. Machine suivant la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que l'angle (α) entre la surface (19) sur laquelle se dressent les tranches et la direction d'avance est compris entre 5° et 15°, et est de préférence de 10°.
  4. Machine suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu à la transition d'une surface (23) du dispositif (4) d'apport sur laquelle se dressent les tranches, à la surface (19) du dispositif (8) de réception sur laquelle se dressent les tranches, un étagement (24) s'abaissant dans la direction d'avance.
  5. Machine suivant la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que la hauteur de l'étagement (24) est comprise entre 5 mm et 30 mm.
  6. Machine suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que la surface (23) du dispositif (4) d'apport sur laquelle se dressent les tranches s'étend par sa face frontale parallèle au plan du couteau si loin dans la direction d'avance qu'un bord (18) supérieur de la face frontale forme un élément antagoniste au bord (17) de coupe du couteau (10) circulaire.
  7. Machine suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisée en ce que l'axe (13) de rotation du bras (11) d'entraínement est au-dessus de la section transversale de convoyage du cordon de produit.
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DE19820004A DE19820004C2 (de) 1998-05-06 1998-05-06 Maschine zum Schneiden eines Gutsstrangs in Scheiben
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