EP0960703A2 - Machine pour la coupe en continu par un couteau rotatif dans un plan horizontal - Google Patents

Machine pour la coupe en continu par un couteau rotatif dans un plan horizontal Download PDF

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EP0960703A2
EP0960703A2 EP99830305A EP99830305A EP0960703A2 EP 0960703 A2 EP0960703 A2 EP 0960703A2 EP 99830305 A EP99830305 A EP 99830305A EP 99830305 A EP99830305 A EP 99830305A EP 0960703 A2 EP0960703 A2 EP 0960703A2
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Marco Pennesi
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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
    • B26D7/01—Means for holding or positioning work
    • 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
    • B26D1/00—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/01—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/12—Cutting 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 cutting member moving about an axis
    • B26D1/25—Cutting 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 cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member
    • B26D1/26—Cutting 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 cutting member moving about an axis with a non-circular cutting member moving about an axis substantially perpendicular to the line of cut
    • B26D1/28—Cutting 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 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
    • B26D1/29—Cutting 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 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 with cutting member mounted in the plane of a rotating disc, e.g. for slicing beans
    • 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
    • B26D1/00—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/01—Cutting 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
    • B26D1/46—Cutting 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 an endless band-knife or the like
    • 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

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  • the present invention relates to industrial machines for cutting food products and in particular it pertains to a continuous cutting machine with its blade rotating in a horizontal plane.
  • Cutting machines with blade rotating in the horizontal plane are employed in the food industry to cut products destined to be consumed in appropriately sized slices; this is the case for instance of certain large fish which, after the removal of parts not destined to human consumption, such as fins, tail and bones, are cut into slices, individually packaged and marketed.
  • a slicing machine substantially corresponding to the preamble of claim 1, which in particular comprises a blade rotating in a horizontal plane and is provided with: tubular product conveyors having a discharge section opposite to the plane of rotation of the blade; a first bearing element for the products to be cut which is horizontally planar and is positioned between the conveyor and the blade; and lastly a second bearing element positioned inferiorly to the plane of rotation of the blade.
  • the two bearing elements are fixed, mutually parallel, suitably distanced and shaped in such a way as to leave the rotating blade uncovered only for a limited angular portion of its plane of rotation.
  • the tubular conveyors instead are movable and, rotating about the axis of rotation of the blade, interact with the bearing elements in such a manner as periodically to bring a portion of product into the space interposed between the two bearing elements, where the blade at each turn of the tubular conveyors periodically intercepts the product cutting a slice therefrom.
  • the operating cndurance of the machine is linked to the capacity for accumulating products to be cut presented by the tubular conveyors.
  • the products accumulated in the convcyors have been exhausted, it is necessary to stop the machine, replenish it with new products to be cut and start a new production cycle.
  • the aim of the present invention therefore is to eliminate the aforementioned drawbacks.
  • this aim is attained by a slicing machine wherein said one or each conveyor is immobile, and said first bearing element is provided with a surface which is able to rotate about the axis of rotation of the blade and which periodically intercepts the discharge section of said one or each conveyor supporting the products contained therein; said second bearing element being provided with a surface able to rotate about the axis of rotation of the blade in synchrony with the first bearing element; said first and second bearing elements being provided with continuous motion and being angularly offset from each other to subdivide the total rotation angle of the blade into two angle fractions, in the first whereof the products transit freely through the discharge section of said one or each conveyor until bearing against the second bearing element, whereupon they are traversed by the blade and are subdivided into two parts kept in mutual superposition contact, said condition being maintained until a first part of the product is sent by the second bearing element towards a discharge section of the machine, whilst a second overlying part of the product contained in said conveyor is taken up by the first
  • the machine according to the invention having stationary conveyors, can operate with continuous cycle and can be fed without any need to stop the rotating blade.
  • Such a feature allows to reduce cycle down times and makes the machine usable, in addition to autonomous usage conditions, also under employment conditions providing for the incorporation of the machine within more complex processing lines.
  • the number 1 indicates in its entirety a cutting machine essentially comprising a cutting apparatus 23 contained within a metal case 14 and operatively interconnected with a plurality of tubular, vertical, conveyors, fastened superiorly to the case 14 and provided with discharge section 5 inferiorly open for feeding the products towards the machine 1.
  • the machine 1 further comprises a transfer apparatus 20 whereby the products cut into slices by the cutting apparatus 23 are ejected outside the machine 1.
  • the cutting apparatus 23 ( Figure 2a) essentially comprises a rotating drum 13 which is peripherally sustained by rollers 24, freely rotating, borne by the case 14, and it is driven by related motor driving means which allow the rotation with continuous motion of the drum 13 about a vertical axis of rotation 10 and which, in particular, are constituted by an internally toothed crown gear 25, integral with the drum 13, and by a pinion 26 meshing with the crown gear 25, driven in continuous motion by a gearmotor 27 associated to a top horizontal wall 28 of the case 14.
  • the drum 13 sustains in a vertical plane, oriented radially thereto ( Figures 3 and 5), a continuous metal ribbon 2, provided with saw teeth.
  • the ribbon 2 is enclosed in a horizontal loop elongated around a pair of pulleys 29,30 with parallel horizontal axes 29a, 30a, whereof one 30 is driven to rotate by related motor driving means which, in particular, are embodied by a conventional gearmotor 31, shown in Figure 2.
  • Figure 3 shows the horizontal plane 6 relating to the upper branch 2s of the ribbon 2, which is opposite and proximate to the discharge surface 5 of the conveyors 4 and which directly involves the functionality of the cutting machine 1)
  • the drum 13 also sustains two bearing elements 7,8 of the products which are positioned, in the vertical, bilaterally to the top horizontal branch 2s of the saw ribbon 2 ( Figure 4) and are angularly and horizontally offset with respect to each other in order to interact with the products of the conveyors at times and operating phases that differ and are distinct from each other.
  • the first bearing element 7 of the products is horizontally planar and has its surface 9 shaped according to a portion of circle, in particular according to an arc of an annulus, which is integral to the drum 13, is centred on the axis 10 of rotation thereof and is vertically interposed between the plane 6 of rotation of the rotating blade 2s and the overlying conveyors 4; it is also located at such a distance from the axis 10 of rotation as to be able to oppose the discharge section 5 of the conveyors 4.
  • the second product bearing element 8 is positioned inferiorly to the plane 6 of rotation of the blade 2 ( Figures 3 and 4) and presents a horizontal surface 11 with its plane parallel to the surface 9 of the first bearing element 7.
  • the horizontal surface 11 of the second bearing element 8 is shaped substantially according to a portion of a circle which in particular comprises an annulus arc 11a centred on the axis or rotation 10 of the blade and joined to a rectilinear section 15 positioned in continuation of an extremity of the arc.
  • the second bearing element 8 is also fastened to the drum 13, so that moving integrally therewith it rotates about the axis of rotation 10 of the blade 2s in synchrony with the first bearing element 7.
  • the second bearing element 8 is provided with translation means 16, 19 ( Figure 6) which transfer towards a lower discharge section 12, located centrally to the case 14 in a position coaxial to the drum 13, the product parts cut by the blade 2s.
  • the translation means in particular, comprise a continuous conveyor belt 16 associated to the surface 11 of the second bearing element 8; belt 16 which is wound around the second bearing element 8 in such a manner as to cover its surface 11 completely and which comprises a plurality of elements 17 for supporting the products concatenated in mutual succession and articulated around two axes 18x, 18z respectively parallel and transverse to the surface 11 of the second bearing element 8.
  • the means for translating the cut products further comprise a conveyor 19 for discharging the cut products positioned between a terminal end 11t of the surface 11 of the second bearing element 8 and the product discharge section 12.
  • the drum 13 further comprises ( Figure 7) a scraping blade 22 borne in vertical projection towards a horizontal wall 21 of the case 14.
  • the wall 21 (which centrally bears the discharge section 12 of the cut products) is provided with a section 32 for discharging cutting scraps and is lapped with continuity by the blade 22 which, as a result of the dragging motion imparted thereto by the drum 13, intercepts the scraps and routes them onto the related discharge section 32 through which they are then evacuated outside the machine 1.
  • said transfer apparatus 20 comprises in particular a continuous conveyor belt which is situated with respect to the case 14 with its own receiving end 33 positioned inferiorly to the section 5 for the discharge of the cut products.
  • the belt allows to receive the cut products and to transfer them towards its own loading end 34 associated to a station for the further processing of the products, not shown herein, which can be embodied for instance by a station for packaging the product slices.
  • the first bearing element 7 returns to intercept in succession the discharge section 5 of each conveyor 4; the lower part of the product (cut slice) thus progressively comes to separate from the overlying part of the product, whilst simultaneously advancing towards the discharge section 12 of the machine 1, by intervention of the second bearing element 8.
  • the upper part of the product in the meantime is progressively taken up by the first bearing element 7 which again interposes itself between the plane 6 of rotation of the blade and the conveyor 4 and which sustains the products for the duration of the sweeping of the entire second angle fraction a; at the end whereof, the described cycle is repeated again in the same manner.

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  • Processing Of Stones Or Stones Resemblance Materials (AREA)
  • Crushing And Grinding (AREA)
  • Mechanical Treatment Of Semiconductor (AREA)
  • Sawing (AREA)
  • Nonmetal Cutting Devices (AREA)
  • Crushing And Pulverization Processes (AREA)
  • Manufacturing And Processing Devices For Dough (AREA)
  • Confectionery (AREA)
  • Finish Polishing, Edge Sharpening, And Grinding By Specific Grinding Devices (AREA)
  • Control And Other Processes For Unpacking Of Materials (AREA)
EP99830305A 1998-05-28 1999-05-18 Machine pour la coupe en continu par un couteau rotatif dans un plan horizontal Expired - Lifetime EP0960703B1 (fr)

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IT1998RN000021A IT1305994B1 (it) 1998-05-28 1998-05-28 Macchina affettatrice continua con lama rotante in un pianoorizzontale.
ITRN980021 1998-05-28

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