Abstract: The present invention relates to a packaging machine which seals a cover-film at a tray, which has been previously filled with a packaging item, whereas the packaging machine comprises an upper tool and a lower tool which are pressed together during the sealing of the cover-film to the tray, and which comprises a sensor to detect misalignment of the packaging item in the tray, a misaligned tray in the lower tool between the upper and the lower tool prior to and/or during the sealing of the cover film to the tray.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conveying device having a first and a second conveyor belt and a moveable turnout which directs a flow of products onto the first and/or second conveyor belt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gripper for use in a cutting machine, in particular a high-speed cutting machine. The gripper can be brought into engagement with an end of a food loaf in a reversible manner by applying a negative pressure.

Abstract: A blade for slicing food comprising: a blade edge and a recess, wherein at least one dimension of the recess is at least 140 mm and at most 450 mm.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for slicing a food slab info food slices by means of a slicing device, which has a cutting blade with which the food slices are separated from the food slab.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for slicing at least one food bar by means of a slicing device, in which method at least one food bar in in each case one lane is transported by means of in each case one transport means in the direction of a cutting blade which is driven in rotation and which, in a cutting plane at the front end of the food bar, severs food slices from the food bar, which food slices are combined into portions and transported away, wherein in order to generate the portion or transport the portion away, the cutting blade performs unproductive cuts during which the cutting blade is moved but no food slices are severed from the food bar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing food portions by means of a slicing device, in particular a slicer, wherein said food portions comprise at least one food slice and are cut from a stick of food using the slicing device, wherein the stick of food is irradiated, preferably by means of x-rays, before the particular food portion is sliced and the data measured in the process are used to control the slicing device and/or a device arranged downstream of the slicing device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adjusting the cutting gap in a slicing device for cutting food products, wherein the slicing device comprises a rotationally driven blade, a cutting edge, and an adjusting device, which moves the blade toward the cutting edge or away from the cutting edge perpendicularly to the cutting edge, wherein the blade is first moved by the adjusting device until the blade touches the cutting edge and then a desired distance between the blade and the cutting edge is set by the adjusting device. The invention further relates to a device for adjusting the cutting gap of a slicing device.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for separating food slices from at least one food bar utilizing a rotating knife, wherein the food bar can be transported in the direction of the knife by way of at least one transporting means. The present invention further relates to a device for separating food slices from at least one food bar utilizing a rotating knife, wherein the food bar can be transported in the direction of the knife by way of at least one transporting means, and a knife for cutting open foodstuff. Said device comprises an oscillating sensor and/or a product sensor and the knife comprises a counter weight.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a packaging machine which seals a cover-film at a tray, which has been previously filled with a packaging item, whereas the packaging machine comprises an upper tool and a lower tool which are pressed together during the sealing of the cover-film to the tray, and which comprises means to detect misalignment of the packaging item in the tray, a misaligned tray in the lower tool and/or a foreign object between the upper and the lower tool prior to and/or during the sealing of the cover film to the tray.