US 12,454,072 B2
System for processing food products
Marvin Schäfer, Biedenkopf (DE); Thorsten Schneider, Weimar/Lahn (DE); Michael Knauf, Amöneburg (DE); and Julian Nolte, Leun-Biskirchen (DE)
Assigned to WEBER FOOD TECHNOLOGY SE & CO. KG, Breidenbach (DE)
Filed by WEBER FOOD TECHNOLOGY SE & CO. KG., Breidenbach (DE)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/085,169.
Claims priority of application No. 102021134049.7 (DE), filed on Dec. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0219249 A1, Jul. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B26D 7/32 (2006.01); A22C 17/00 (2006.01); B26D 5/00 (2006.01); B26D 7/06 (2006.01); B26D 7/28 (2006.01)
CPC B26D 7/32 (2013.01) [A22C 17/0033 (2013.01); A22C 17/0086 (2013.01); A22C 17/0093 (2013.01); B26D 5/007 (2013.01); B26D 7/28 (2013.01); B26D 7/0683 (2013.01); B26D 2210/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for processing food products, said system comprising
a slicing apparatus having a portioning section and a blade movable in a cutting plane and being configured to cut off slices from bar-shaped food products guided into the cutting plane and to form part portions in the portioning section that comprise one or more cut-off slices;
a transport device adjoining the portioning section, wherein the portioning section comprises a conveying device that is configured to transfer the part portions to the transport device; and
a stacking apparatus that has at least one product support movable between a feed position and a placement position and a stacking section arranged beneath the product support,
wherein the stacking apparatus is configured to place part portions moved onto the product support on the stacking section by moving the product support from the feed position into the placement position and to form a food portion comprising a plurality of part portions on the stacking section,
wherein the transport device is configured to transport the part portions received from the conveying device onto the product support of the stacking apparatus, and
wherein at least one of the transport device or the stacking apparatus has a scale for measuring the weight of at least one of the part portions or the food portion.