Abstract: A method and a device for separating food products, including to permit a straight cut at high cycle rates, the food product is conveyed by a conveying device in the direction of transport. The food product is cut through, where a cutting element is moved in the direction of transport and transverse to the direction of transport, wherein the motion of the cutting element transverse to the direction of transport is controlled independently of its motion in the direction of transport and the food product does not rest on the cutting area on the conveying means.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 7, 2015
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Inventors:
Manfred Baechtle, Wolfgang Braig, Siegfried Reutter, Bernd Romer, Klaus Schmid, Daniel Teufel
Abstract: A method for filling sausages with a paste-like substance by means of a filling machine and to a filling machine for performing this method, including a sensor unit capable of determining at least one parameter that varies differently for different paste-like substances as a function of time. Depending on the at least one determined parameter, a controller determines whether a measure to be implemented on one or more wearing parts is necessary, the wearing parts wearing out at different times depending on the different paste-like substances.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 18, 2013
Date of Patent:
February 3, 2015
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A food machine, in particular a machine for processing and producing sausage, with a step, and a corresponding method, wherein the food machine includes a safety device for detecting whether a person is standing on the step when the step is in a projecting step-on position.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 25, 2012
Date of Patent:
December 2, 2014
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A method and an apparatus for suspending sausages, where sausages are taken up by suspension hooks moving on a circulation path and are conveyed, suspended from the suspension hooks, in a conveying direction into a removal area. At least a part of the suspension hooks is controllable independently of one another.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 16, 2013
Date of Patent:
November 25, 2014
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: An apparatus and a method for determining at least one parameter relating to the shape of the sausage, which is transported on a transport device, in particular between two circulating means of transport. A measuring device has at least one distance sensor, which is disposed in such a way that said sensor can detect a distance c to a sausage that is being transported. Furthermore, an evaluation device is provided, which determines at least one parameter relating to the sausage as a function of the distance.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 24, 2014
Publication date:
November 13, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A method for the transmission of process data between different devices that are involved in a process for the production of food, in particular devices involved in a filling line, wherein the data communication between two devices takes place exclusively between at least one transmitter of a first device and at least one receiver of a second device, and/or between at least one transmitter of the second device and at least one receiver of the first device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 28, 2014
Publication date:
November 13, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A connector for data transmission at an interface between two apparatuses for food production, such as meat and sausage production, having a first connecting element connected to the first apparatus and being at least one first data transmission part, a second connecting element connected to the second apparatus and being at least one second data transmission part, the first data transmission part being galvanically isolated from the second data transmission part such that data transmission from the first connecting element to the second connecting element is effected in a galvanically isolated manner.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 28, 2014
Publication date:
November 13, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A method and a device for controlling a filling machine with a clipping machine, the clipping machine and the filling machine exchanging process data via a communication interface, where functions of the clipping machine, in particular the movement profile of opposed clipper scissors, and functions of the filling machine, in particular the speed profile of a feed mechanism, are automatically adjusted with respect to each other by at least one control system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
March 3, 2014
Publication date:
September 25, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: In a device for manufacturing co-extruded food products with a filling machine, including a pump for an inner mass coupled to a drive and a control unit at least for the drive, to which a coextrusion unit disposed at the outside is connected, and to which a pump being coupled to a drive at least for delivering the outer mass to the coextrusion unit is connected. The drive of the outer mass pump is integrated into the inner mass filling machine.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 17, 2014
Publication date:
September 25, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A suspension apparatus and a method for suspending sausages, in particular sausage chains, including a plurality of circulating suspension hooks, where the suspension apparatus is configured such that it is able to accommodate a plurality of groups of sausages, the respective sausages being suspended from n suspension hooks. The apparatus includes at least one variable indicator capable of indicating a group end and/or a group beginning.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2013
Date of Patent:
August 5, 2014
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A filling machine for sausages, having a filling tube and a unit for removing a filling material plait exiting the filling tube end during a filling process interruption, where the removing unit includes a separator element by means of which the filling material plait can be removed when a relative movement is executed between the filling tube end and the separator element, the separator element including at least one filling material adhesion surface to which filling material is transferable and adherable, and the adhesion surface has associated therewith a cleaning device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 24, 2013
Publication date:
July 31, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Inventors:
Andreas Betz, Gerhard Schliesser, Manfred Baechtle, Florian Osswald, Robert Winghart
Abstract: A stuffing tube centering device for concentric alignment of the stuffing tube to a casing stick and a corresponding method, and where two oppositely disposed centering members movable towards each other between which the stuffing tube can be held and centered.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 22, 2013
Publication date:
June 26, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Inventors:
Manfred Baechtle, Gerhard Schliesser, Jochen Merk, Florian Osswald, Andreas Betz
Abstract: A method and a device for portioning a sausage string generated by a filling machine into individual sausage portions, having the following steps: transportation of the sausage string in the direction of transport, portioning the filled sausage string by means of opposing portioning elements, which engage in the sausage string, wherein the movement of the portioning elements is controlled, in each case, along a freely adjustable track.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 6, 2013
Publication date:
June 19, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A method for producing a foodstuff, in particular sausages, produced by coextrusion, including extruding a paste mass, coextruding a casing, and where a bonding agent is fed between paste mass and coextruded casing.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 22, 2013
Publication date:
June 19, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Inventors:
Manfred Bächtle, Armin Buechele, Siegfried Reutter, Markus Schliesser
Abstract: A conveyor system for a filling machine and a method of conveying pasty mass with a corresponding conveyor system and a corresponding filling machine, including a housing with a vacuum opening and a vacuum pump as well as a suction line for generating a vacuum in the conveyor system. A valve mechanism and at least one pressure sensor for measuring the pressure in the suction line and/or in the conveyor system are provided. A controller controls the vacuum in the conveyor system or the suction line, respectively, wherein the cross-section of the suction line is adjusted in response to the measured pressure via the valve mechanism.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 18, 2012
Date of Patent:
March 25, 2014
Assignee:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A suspension apparatus and a method for suspending sausages, in particular sausage chains, including a plurality of circulating suspension hooks, where the suspension apparatus is configured such that it is able to accommodate a plurality of groups of sausages, the respective sausages being suspended from n suspension hooks. The apparatus includes at least one variable indicator capable of indicating a group end and/or a group beginning.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 25, 2013
Publication date:
March 13, 2014
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A method and an apparatus for suspending sausages, where sausages are taken up by suspension hooks moving on a circulation path and are conveyed, suspended from the suspension hooks, in a conveying direction into a removal area. At least a part of the suspension hooks is controllable independently of one another.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 16, 2013
Publication date:
October 24, 2013
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Inventor:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Abstract: A method for filling sausages with a paste-like substance by means of a filling machine and to a filling machine for performing this method, including a sensor unit capable of determining at least one parameter that varies differently for different paste-like substances as a function of time. Depending on the at least one determined parameter, a controller determines whether a measure to be implemented on one or more wearing parts is necessary, the wearing parts wearing out at different times depending on the different paste-like substances.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 18, 2013
Publication date:
August 15, 2013
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO.KG
Inventor:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GMBH & Co. KG
Abstract: A method and a device for separating food products, including to permit a straight cut at high cycle rates, the food product is conveyed by a conveying device in the direction of transport. The food product is cut through, where a cutting element is moved in the direction of transport and transverse to the direction of transport, wherein the motion of the cutting element transverse to the direction of transport is controlled independently of its motion in the direction of transport and the food product does not rest on the cutting area on the conveying means.
Type:
Application
Filed:
January 30, 2013
Publication date:
August 15, 2013
Applicant:
ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
Inventor:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Abstract: A food machine, in particular a machine for processing and producing sausage, with a step, and a corresponding method, wherein the food machine includes a safety device for detecting whether a person is standing on the step when the step is in a projecting step-on position.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 25, 2012
Publication date:
April 25, 2013
Applicant:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
Inventor:
Albert Handtmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.