Abstract: A method for producing slices from formable food masses, of which at least one mass is a cheese preparation. A mass is brought into slice form in particular by means of rolls, belts or plates. After or during the flattening by pressing or a flat application of the mass to a layer of a certain thickness, the mass is not applied to specified or unspecified points of the layer or displaced to such an extent that, at these points, depressions, holes and/or free areas occur. Following this, the depressions/holes/free areas are filled out by at least a second mass which differs from the first mass in type/kind, in particular in color.

Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for stacking unpacked processed cheese slices. Single stacks consisting of a plurality of superimposed processed cheese slices are continuously supplied by a transportation device to a first turning station. At the first turning station, the single stacks are individually rotated through 90° in the direction of transportation. These rotated single stacks subsequently are supplied to a second turning station. At the second turning station, two or more single stacks are arranged behind one another in a row and then are rotated together through 90° in the direction of transportation. Thus, the two or more single stacks come to rest on top of one another and form a multiple stack of processed cheese slices.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for shaping and portioning a soft, pasty product within a tubular casing made of foil material, the encased product being supplied to a shaping and portioning station. The product leaves said shaping and portioning station divided into portions. The invention further comprises a metering station arranged directly upstream of the shaping and portioning station. The metering station meters the quantity of the product supplied to shaping and portioning station per unit of time.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a foodstuff strand into a succession of pieces has a conveyor for continuously displacing the strand in a direction through a cutting station, a vertical guide rail in the station, a blade in the station lying in a vertical plane, and a holder carrying the blade and vertically displaceable along the rail. An actuator braced between the guide rail and the holder is operable to vertically reciprocate the blade. Upper and lower wheels rotatable about respective upper and lower axes generally parallel to the plane and perpendicular to the direction have offset from the respective axes respective upper and lower pivots attached to the mount. A drive/controller connected to the actuator and to the wheels vertically reciprocates the mount and rotates the wheels for cutting through the strand with the blade while moving the blade synchronously in the direction with the strand.

Abstract: The invention relates to a package filled with individually foil wrapped, rectangular, in particular square, flexible slices of a highly perishable food, wherein a large number of wrapped slices are disposed, standing substantially upright, as a stack in a container that is open at the top, wherein the stack is enclosed by the four vertical outer walls of the container and the wrapped slices stand on the container bottom, which is preferably ribbed. The entire container can be sealed in a transparent plastic wrapping. A lower front sidewall of the container facilitates removal of individual slices from the container.

Abstract: A line connector apparatus has at least one table receiving items to be conveyed from at least one feeder conveyor. At least one guide mechanism is rotatably mounted on the table for selectively guiding items into two different directions, one direction leading into a transport path, and the other direction leading away from the transport path and into a discard container for defective items.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for shaping and portioning a viscous compounds inside a flexible coating during a feed movement in which the compound inside the coating is deformed by forces acting from outside, the direction of which periodically changes. Here, the forces acting from outside act against the feed movement of the compound and its coating at least partially and for a certain time. In the device, the mass runs inside the coating between two shaping components (1, 2), preferably in the form of a toothed belt.

Abstract: This innovation describes a slice stacker, designed in particular for cheese slices and other slice-shaped objects, consisting of a brush belt with resting overhead or lower shot belts, which register slices from the top or from the bottom.

Abstract: Drying unit for filled, band-shaped foil hoses with a filling, shaping, cooling, sealing, drying, and cutting station as well as a stacking and final packaging unit, where the drying station is designed as a cold or warm compressed air drying unit. In the area of the drying unit, the roller brushes are working in opposite directions and the band-shaped foil hose is being guided through the roller gap, which makes the roller brushes run in the opposite direction of the transport direction of the foil hose.

Abstract: The device for cutting and stacking products is based upon product slices which are packed in the form of a chain in a foil tube whereby the individual product slices are separated from one another by sealing seams which run perpendicular to the width of the foil tube. The cutting device cuts the individual interlinked product slices in the area of the sealing seam and the cut product slices are placed onto a stacking device in which product stacks are built which are taken to a subsequent packing machine. At the exit of the cutting device is a stacking chamber of which two vertical opposing walls are formed by two belts having spaced fins or projections which form take-up spaces into which the product slices can be introduced.

Abstract: A process for packing a liquid, semi-liquid, soft or fine-powder product in a closed foil tube, whereby the product is introduced into the foil tube in the area of a tube form station and taken to an expulsion station which expels the product from web-like expulsion areas extending over the width of the foil tube, and adds sealing seams to the foil tube in these areas. In order to achieve proper expulsion and sealing which is simple and tight using narrow sealing seams, the foil must first be cooled off prior to expulsion.

Abstract: A transportation device for the transportation of foodstuffs in particular of cut foods consists in essence of a rack in which two rollers are arranged across from one another and over which runs a conveyor belt designed as a continuous belt. The rollers can be rotated on the free ends of end sections readily removable from the rack. This makes it possible to readily exchange the conveyor belt and to modify the length of the transportation device in a simple manner.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for the perpendicular change in the direction of travel of a food, in particular, cheese, sausage and such in slice form, whereby the food is transferred in conjunction with a 90.degree. rotation via a conveyor device onto a conveyor belt perpendicular thereto. The device features a supply belt in the direction of travel which places the food as a single slice onto a reorientation device whereby the reorientation device has a first and a second lift position and whereby the first raised lift position of the first variant or the first lowered lift position of the second variant conveys the individual slice in a longitudinal direction in a conveyor device in the original direction of travel whereas in the second lowered lift position of the first variant or the second raised lift position of the second variant another displaced conveyor device engages the individual slice and transfers it onto a transfer belt.

Abstract: A feed drive for a cutting machine for cutting foods consists of a claw which penetrates into the product at the rear face of the product to be sliced whereby the claw is driven intermittently or continuously in the direction of feed, and guides the product on a roller conveyor against a cutting device so that slices are cut from the product. For an improved guidance of the product and in order to avoid inconsistent slices in particular in products which are long and whose consistency is soft, there is another force-locking and form-locking drive for the product at the front end of the product in the vicinity of the circular knife of the cutting device coupled with the drive of the claw. This additional drive consists at least of a feed roller which engages the bottom of the product in a force-locking and form-locking fashion and which is driven as a function of the feed path of the claw.

Abstract: A turning device for articles conveyed on a conveyor comprises a set of conveyor belts which together convey the article, the belts being driven at different speeds which increase from one side of the conveyor to the other. The speed differential is imparted by a drive shaft around which the belts pass, each belt passing around a pulley on the shaft. The diameters of the pulleys increase from one end of the shaft to the other and the pulleys are driven in rotation together.

Abstract: A conveying plant for products to be packaged is described, comprising an integrated buffer store, wherein items are fed to a packaging machine by means of a supply system and are withdrawn from a buffer store when gaps occur in the conveying flow. To reduce production costs and ensure compactness and an optimum number of buffer locations in the conveying system, provision is made for at least one vertically displaceable lift magazine to be arranged in the area of the supply system, which incorporates shelves arranged vertically one above the other, each shelf base being appropriate for reception and discharge of an item for packaging.

Abstract: An insertion device is used to introduce foil-like material, in particular paper or synthetic segments, between the slices cut by a cutting machine. Such slices are produced in particular in the food industry in the form of sausage, cheese or other food slices with cutting machines. In the insertion device a paper path is unwound from a paper roller and is carried into the cutting range of the circular knife of the cutting machine through an intermittently driven feed device. The insertion device of the cutting machine is arraged on the machine frame so that it can be moved and secured in order to be able to readily clean the insertion device and also to make the corresponding intake area of the cutting machine readily accessible.

Abstract: A machine for slicing slabs of cheese, sausage or the like comprises a feeding mechanism which supports the slab, feeds it intermittently at an inclination to the horizontal and includes a slab-supporting conveyor belt and gripping claws for holding the back of the slab. The conveyor belt runs over freely rotatable direction-changing rollers and on both sides of the conveyor belt parallel to the upper run thereof and displaceable above same the gripping claws are secured on parallel shafts which are provided with pivoting drives and are mounted in support members to be projectable above the upper run and retractable therefrom. The support members are provided with drives for stepwise advance with fast forward and reverse gears. A mechanism for catching the slices is disposed below the front end of the conveyor belt.