Abstract: The disclosure relates to a deep-drawing packaging machine comprising a work station for heating a lower film for a forming process and lateral transport chains configured to grip the lower film laterally and to transport the lower film intermittently through the work station in a working direction. The work station has a height-adjustable tool lower part, a tool upper part with a heating body for heating the lower film, and a punching device with a punching unit for producing a perforation in an edge strip area of the lower film. The punching unit comprises a punch provided on the tool lower part and a hold-down device for interacting with the punch and provided on the tool upper part. The punch has a punch body with an outer edge area facing a lateral transport chain and with an inner edge area facing the heating body.

Abstract: In order to prevent slices separated from a product caliber by a slicer from adhering temporarily to a cutting surface of a blade and not coming to rest on the desired position on a base when the slices are ejected, the arrangement of one or more recesses in the blade back facing away from the product caliber is suggested in a specific way.

Abstract: A sealing station for sealing packaging units comprises a lower tool with at least one receptacle for a packaging unit and an upper tool. The lower tool and the upper tool are arranged to be movable relative to one another. The sealing station further comprises an edge extractor with at least one extraction opening for subjecting an interior of the packaging unit to a vacuum and/or a gas, and the lower tool comprises a lifting element for lifting a film cover of the packaging unit.

Abstract: In a slicer, in which a number of service operations, such as cleaning operations, maintenance operations, etc., are to be carried out before and after slicing operation, it is possible according to the invention for the operator to switch from a normal slicing mode to a service mode, within which a control unit automatically and triggered by a specific start event initiates defined actions, for example after opening a specific protective door as a start event, to move moving working parts located behind it, such as a feed conveyor, into a cleaning and changing position.

Abstract: Sealing device for sealing packages, the sealing device comprising a sealing station with a plurality of receptacles for packages, a transfer belt arranged upstream of the sealing station for transferring packages to the sealing station, a transport belt arranged upstream of the transfer belt for transporting and transferring packages to the transfer belt, and a feeding device for feeding packages to the transport belt, wherein the transport belt and the transfer belt can be driven independently of one another, and wherein the sealing device comprises at least one sensor, which is adapted to determine a distance between successively transported packages in the feeding device, and a control unit, wherein the control unit is adapted to determine a speed profile of the transport belt and a speed profile of the transfer belt based on a distance of successively transported packages measured by the sensor, and to control the transport belt and the transfer belt as a function of the speed profile so that the distanc

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a package having a package lower part for receiving a product and having a lid part attached to the package lower part for closing the package. The lid part includes a label and a carrier layer section, wherein the label adheres to the carrier layer section, and wherein the lid part is adhered to the package lower part by means of the label. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a package.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blade, in particular a slicer blade, for a cutting unit of a slicing machine, in particular a slicer, for cutting slices from a product strand with a blade base body, which has a rotation axis that extends in an axial direction. According to the invention, the blade base body has a plurality of channel-shaped recesses with a direction of progression, the channel-shaped recesses having a predetermined depth in the axial direction, and the direction of progression of each of the channel-shaped recesses being at least partially in a non-radial direction with respect to the rotation axis of the blade base body. The invention further relates to a cutting unit with such a blade and to a slicing machine comprising the cutting unit.

Abstract: A packaging machine comprises at least one work station for processing at least one packaging part. The work station comprises a fluid line. The packaging machine comprises a valve for controlling a flow of fluid through the fluid line. The packaging machine comprises a control system for controlling the valve. The valve comprises a valve body with a flow channel. The valve comprises a blocking body which is movable in the flow channel along an axial direction between a closed position and an open position, wherein in the closed position a flow of fluid through the flow channel is prevented and in the open position a flow of fluid through the flow channel is enabled. The blocking body is configured to be flowed through by the fluid in the axial direction in the open position of the blocking body.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a printer device configured for a packaging machine as a thermal inkjet printer. The printer device includes a frame and a printhead holder mounted thereon and configured to support a replaceable printhead. The printhead holder has an opening for at least one nozzle formed on the printhead. The printer device further includes a sealing unit and a lifting mechanism for the sealing unit, by means of which the sealing unit is adjustable between a first position, in which the sealing unit exposes the opening of the printhead holder, and a second position, in which the sealing unit closes the opening of the printhead holder. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a wet cleaning process of a printer device.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for shredding strip-shaped material comprising a housing with at least one feed opening for the strip-shaped material and a discharge opening for the shredded material, a blade holder which is mounted to be rotatable about an axis within the housing, at least one blade which is attached to the blade holder, at least one counter blade which is attached to the housing, and a drive configured to rotate the blade holder in a first direction of rotation and a second direction of rotation, opposite to the first direction of rotation, about the axis. The disclosure further relates to a method for operating a device for shredding strip-shaped material. Under the method, at least one blade holder mounted to be rotatable in a first direction of rotation, as well as in a second direction of rotation, is employed by the device.

Abstract: In order to keep anticaking agent—related dead times of a slicing machine as low as possible, excess anticaking agent suspended in the air is sucked off by a suction unit so that as little as possible is deposited on parts of the machine which subsequently have to be cleaned frequently, and/or instead of a single reservoir, several different reservoirs are used, which are switchable in their connection to a spray opening to be supplied, whereby it is easy to switch from an empty to a full reservoir, while the change or refilling of the emptied reservoir can be carried out without dead time during a cutting operation.

Abstract: To minimize contamination by an anticaking agent of parts of a slicing machine located away from a slice to be produced or already produced by the slicing machine, only a corresponding main surface of the slice is coated with the anticaking agent, if possible. For which purpose, an actual anticaking agent image on the main surface is automatically determined and compared by a control with a predetermined target anticaking agent image and, depending on this, a spray direction and spray distance of the spray opening from an application point are automatically corrected by the control.

Abstract: A packaging unit comprises at least one first piece of packaging material, wherein the first piece of packaging material has a coated paper, which has a base paper and at least three coatings applied one on top of the other on the base paper. The at least three coatings have in a sequence in which they are given, starting from the base paper, a first barrier layer, comprising at least one hydrophobic polymer, a second barrier layer, comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer, and a third barrier layer, comprising at least one hydrophobic polymer. Furthermore, the packaging is closed in a gas-tight manner.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a lifting mechanism for opening and closing a tool of a packaging machine. The lifting mechanism comprises at least one first lifting device and at least one second lifting device which can be actuated in succession in order to move the lifting mechanism from an open position to a closed position, wherein the first lifting device is decoupled from a load absorption caused by means of the second lifting device for closing the tool. The lifting mechanism comprises at least one adjustable locking mechanism for force-related decoupling of the first lifting device from a force flow caused by the second lifting device. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method.

Abstract: A device for handling cardboard blanks comprises an erecting device with a plurality of engagement elements. The erecting device is configured to transition from a receiving configuration to a forming configuration. The erecting device is configured to move at least several of the engagement elements to transition from the receiving configuration to the forming configuration. In the receiving configuration, the erecting device is configured to receive a group of cardboard blanks each having a bottom region and side regions connected to the bottom region. The engagement elements are configured to erect the side regions of the cardboard blanks when the erecting device transitions from the receiving configuration to the forming configuration. The erecting device is configured to move the bottom regions of the cardboard blanks relative to each other when transitioning from the receiving configuration to the forming configuration.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a thermoforming machine comprising a transverse cutting station. The transverse cutting station has a punching device for separating one or more film sections from a lower film and/or an upper film by means of a punching tool comprising a punch and a die. The punching device comprises a chamber configured to at least temporarily receive the film sections, and a suction device to convey the film sections out of the transverse cutting station. The suction device is fluidically connected to a compressed gas source.

Abstract: In order that in a portioning belt unit with only two deflecting drums, the rear one of which serves as a drive drum and requires a large wrap angle, the rear end of the upper run of the portioning belt does not become increasingly more declined towards the rear until it reaches the vertical, in accordance with the curvature of the upper side of this drive drum, a smaller rearmost deflecting drum is provided, and the upper run is held bent between the foremost and rearmost deflecting drums with an approximately horizontal front section and an obliquely rearwardly sloping rear section by correspondingly supporting the upper run by a belt support plate or a center deflecting drum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a packaging machine and a method for the production of individual packagings. Each package may include a planar product carrier and a top film which encloses a product disposed on the product carrier in a gas-tight manner. The packaging machine may include a sealing station with a tool upper part having an outer frame and at least one sealing tool movably mounted for a sealing operation, and a tool lower part that comprises a belt conveying module with at least one conveyor belt mounted thereon. The tool upper part and the tool lower part are moved toward each other to form a sealing chamber in a closed position of the sealing station. In the closed position, the sealing tool may be lowered within the sealing chamber from a resting position to a sealing position to seal the package.

Abstract: In order to be able to shingle articles individual slices or partial portions of slices shingled in a longitudinal direction in a transverse direction relative to the running direction of conveyor units on which these articles are transported, the two conveyor units, on each of which one of the two articles is fully supported, are not brought to overlap in order to achieve the transverse shingling, but one of the articles is transported on its conveyor unit with a lateral overhang to the other conveyor unit, and the other article placed there on the edge side with such a height difference that the two articles can finally overlap and be placed on top of each other. However, the two conveyor units only have to be guided closely next to each other for this purpose without overlapping themselves. This simplifies the design of the overlapping unit and reduces its overall height.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for a packaging process, wherein the device is provided in the form of a step-by-step packaging machine, or is configured as a step-by-step packaging line. The device is configured to perform a recipe change from a first packaging recipe to another, second packaging recipe step by step at a plurality of work stations provided on the device. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a corresponding method.