| CPC B26D 5/005 (2013.01) [B26D 7/32 (2013.01); B26D 2007/327 (2013.01)] | 17 Claims |
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1. A method for at least achieving a reference weight of as many individual slices (S1 to Sn) as possible when cutting a batch of loaves into slices, by automatically varying thickness adjustments for the slices to be cut, wherein
A) each loaf is arranged in a holding device for holding the loaf and advancing the loaf during slicing in a feed direction,
B) weight or volume of a respective loaf is determined,
C) in each case maximum number of such slices with reference weight which can be produced from this loaf is calculated therefrom,
D) a thickness adjustment is calculated for all slices of this loaf, at which actual weight of each slice should mathematically correspond at least to the reference weight, and
E) the actual weight of each separated slice of the loaves of the batch is determined,
wherein
F) before slicing a new loaf, in each case for those slice numbers for which, in a preceding loaf of a sequence of loaves, the uncorrected actual weight is increased by an uncorrected difference weight from the reference weight, for each slice number of the new loaf a slice correction weight is determined as a function of the uncorrected difference weights of these slice numbers in the sequence of preceding loaves,
G) the thickness adjustments for the slice numbers of this new loaf are corrected with respect to the calculated thickness adjustment of this loaf by such slice-by-slice loaf correction thicknesses which correspond to the respective slice-by-slice loaf correction weight,
H) the new loaf is cut into slices with the thickness adjustments thus corrected for the individual slice numbers.
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