US 12,129,059 B2
Apparatus for the track individual provision of sheet material for placing underneath
Marvin Schäfer, Biedenkopf (DE); Thorsten Schneider, Weimar/Lahn (DE); Markus Gerhardt, Biedenkopf (DE); Florian Reitz, Bad Laasphe (DE); Julian Nolte, Leun-Biskirchen (DE); and Heiko Knöppel, Gemünden (DE)
Assigned to Weber Food Technology GmbH, Breidenbach (DE)
Filed by Weber Food Technology GmbH, Breidenbach (DE)
Filed on Jan. 8, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/407,028.
Application 18/407,028 is a continuation of application No. 17/522,240, filed on Nov. 9, 2021, granted, now 11,975,873.
Claims priority of application No. 102020129647.9 (DE), filed on Nov. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0150054 A1, May 9, 2024
Int. Cl. B65B 25/08 (2006.01); B26D 7/32 (2006.01); B65B 41/16 (2006.01); B65B 57/08 (2006.01); B65B 65/00 (2006.01); B65H 16/02 (2006.01); B65H 29/20 (2006.01); B65H 35/00 (2006.01); B65H 35/08 (2006.01)
CPC B65B 25/08 (2013.01) [B26D 7/32 (2013.01); B26D 7/325 (2013.01); B65B 41/16 (2013.01); B65B 57/08 (2013.01); B65B 65/006 (2013.01); B65H 16/02 (2013.01); B65H 29/20 (2013.01); B65H 35/0086 (2013.01); B65H 35/08 (2013.01); B65H 2553/30 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An underlay apparatus for placing material under product on each of two or more tracks of a food processing line, comprising:
a product outfeed comprising the two or more tracks of the food processing line;
a product feed configured to transport the product to the product outfeed; and
an output unit, comprising:
a draw-in device for drawing in sheet material from a material web;
a separation device for separating the sheet material; and
an ejection device configured to receive the sheet material from the separation device and discharge the sheet material onto each of the two or more tracks, the ejection device comprising:
an ejection roller;
an ejection counter-unit; and
an ejection gap formed by the ejection roller and the ejection counter-unit and associated with each of the two or more tracks.