Abstract: A linear motor system includes a track and at least one movable member coupled to the track and configured to move along the track. The at least one movable member includes a first element, a second element relatively movable with respect to the first element, and at least one movement detector configured to transmit a movement signal. A processing unit is configured to calculate a movement of the movable member, the second element and/or the first element as a function of the movement signal received from the movement detector.

Abstract: A linear motor system includes a track and at least one movable member coupled to the track and configured to move along the track. The at least one movable member includes a first element, a second element relatively movable with respect to the first element, and at least one movement detector configured to transmit a movement signal, wherein the movement detector comprises at least one magnet positioned at one of the first or second element, and at least one magnetometer positioned at the other of the first or the second element. The linear motor system also includes a processing unit configured to calculate a movement of the second element with respect to the first element as a function of the movement signal received from the movement detector.

Abstract: The present invention provides a food packaging machine comprising a packaging material supply module, a food supply module, a filling module. The food packaging machine further comprises a hardware data processor operably connected to the packaging material supply module, operably connected to the food supply module, so operable to create a food data transaction, and operably connected to a network data processing system. The hardware data processor is operable to send the food data transaction to the network data processing system for the data transaction to be appended to a packaged food production data hash tree. The present invention further provides a system for packaging food comprising a plurality of food packaging machines as well as methods for tracking food data transactions in a food packaging machine and in a system for packaging food.

Abstract: A method (1000) for condition monitoring is disclosed, comprising registering (1010) values (v1) of movement characteristics measured for cycles of motion of a cyclically moving machine, associating (1050) the occurrence of values in a frequency distribution (Fv1) of the values with respective defined indexes (a, b, c, . . . ) based on intervals, generating (1060) a word string (S) of the defined indexes corresponding to the occurrence of the values, segmenting (1070) said word string (S) into a sub-set of words (s1, s2, . . . , si), determining (1080) a frequency of the occurrence of the segmented words in said word string as a first reference term frequency (TF1), associated with a first machine status (M1), for subsequently registered set of values of movement characteristics, determining (1100) a subsequent term frequency (TFn), comparing (1110) the subsequent term frequency (TFn) with the first reference term frequency to determine a correlation with the first machine status.

Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package containing a food product, comprising crease lines that have sections that are angled towards each other such that at least two sides panels of the sealed package are given a trapezoidal shape.

Abstract: A conveying apparatus for advancing packages from an inlet station to an outlet station comprises an intermediate track between the inlet and outlet stations, an endless belt to engage the packages during advancement along at least the track; and a tensioning device to tension the endless belt. The tensioning device comprises a spring unit comprising first and second spring assemblies having first and second pre-loaded spring forces respectively, with the second spring force larger than the first spring force. The conveying apparatus is in a rest configuration in the absence of packages along the track and is in a loaded configuration with plural packages arranged along the track. The first spring assembly determines the spring force of the spring unit when the conveying apparatus is in the rest configuration and the second spring assembly determines the spring force of the spring unit when the conveying is in the loaded configuration.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a low-voltage electron-beam sterilizable polyolefin film of a polyolefin composition, for use in laminated packaging materials for liquid food products, the polyolefin composition comprising one or more polyolefins, characterized in that the polyolefin composition further comprises an antioxidant formulation comprising an N,N-dialkyl-hydroxylamine and a sterically hindered phenolic compound. The disclosure also relates to a low-voltage electron-beam sterilizable laminated packaging material for liquid food products comprising the low-voltage electron-beam sterilizable polyolefin film, to a packaging container for liquid food products comprising the low-voltage electron-beam sterilizable laminated packaging material and to a use of the low-voltage electron-beam resistant laminated packaging material in a method of forming, filling and sealing packaging containers for liquid food products.

Abstract: A packaging material producing machine, comprising a transport device being configured to guide and move a web of packaging material, and a processing system is provided. The processing system comprises a functional unit connected to the at least one carrier and a positioning arrangement that comprises a fixed support and a bar arranged and moveable in parallel with said support, and at least one carrier comprising an attachment device being configured to selectively attach the carrier to only one of said fixed support and said bar.

Abstract: A method for forming sealed partially-filled packages filled with a pourable product comprises at least forming a tube from a web of packaging material, filling the pourable product into the tube for forming a product column within the tube, directing a sterile gas into the product column for forming and/or maintaining a gas cushion within the product column, and forming and transversally sealing the tube, for obtaining the packages containing the pourable product and a gas space formed from a defined volume of the sterile gas originating from the gas cushion.

Abstract: A database system can comprise a plurality of code databases storing marking codes that uniquely identifies packages of liquid food and comprises package production data which uniquely identifies production of the individual package. The respective code database stores a respective subset of the marking codes. An input sub-system of the database system is configured to receive a current marking code. The database system comprises a set of resource locators. The respective resource locator is configured to: receive the current marking code from the input sub-system, extract the package production data from the current marking code, identify a current code database among the plurality of code databases based on the package production data, and re-direct the current marking code to the current code database.

Abstract: A method for identifying a state of a food package by using a camera can include capturing image data depicting a section of the food package by using the camera. The section includes at least one package feature, The method can further include identifying a package feature sub-set of the image data depicting the at least one package feature provided in the section, and determining the state of the food package based on the package feature sub-set of the image data. The state is selected from a food holding state and an emptied state.

Abstract: A stick handling apparatus for handling ice cream sticks, said apparatus comprising a magazine arranged to hold ice cream sticks, a conveyor band arranged to retrieve ice cream sticks from the magazine, a stacker unit arranged to retrieve ice cream sticks from the conveyor band and to stack the ice cream sticks one after the other, a stick placing unit arranged to receive the ice cream sticks from the stacker unit for positioning the ice cream sticks inside a piece of ice cream mass, and a printer unit configured to print information on the ice cream sticks while the ice cream sticks are conveyed by the conveyor band.

Abstract: An apparatus for draining and forming curd is presented. The apparatus comprises multiple, vertically arranged towers, a common curd distribution arrangement for distributing a curd and whey mixture into the multiple towers and a drainage section for draining whey from the curd and whey mixture. The drainage section forms a continuous space that extends horizontally over each of the multiple towers, each of the multiple towers having openings into the space formed by the drainage section for allowing whey to pass from the multiple towers and into the drainage section. A base unit beneath the multiple towers receives drained curd from the multiple towers and place the drained curd in moulds.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling a food product powder includes a sealable container having an interior surface defining a volume in which the food product powder is handled, and a powder outlet. The apparatus includes a jet nozzle that is attached to the container and configured to feed air into the container and direct the air towards the interior surface to remove product powder from the interior surface, such that the air and the removed product powder may flow out of the container via the powder outlet. The jet nozzle includes a ceiling spray opening formed on a first side of the jet nozzle and directed towards a ceiling of the interior surface, and a side wall spray opening formed on a second side of the jet nozzle opposite the first side and directed towards a side wall of the interior surface.

Abstract: An ice cream freezer comprising an elongated housing having a jacket and an interior space in which a dasher with a rotatable hollow cylinder body is arranged, the cylinder body comprising a scraper blade arranged along the periphery of the cylinder body, an inlet located before the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to enter an inside of the cylinder body, and an outlet located after the scraper blade for allowing ice cream mixture to leave the inside of the cylinder body, wherein the inlet comprises a lead surface that has a lead angle of at least 3° for pushing the ice cream mixture in the axial direction of the cylinder body.

Abstract: An apparatus for quality assessment of a sealing section of a package for food products. The package comprises at least a robustness layer and a plastic layer. The sealing section is formed by holding a first section and a second section of the package against each other while providing heat such that the plastic layer of the first and second section melt and thereby provide for that the first and second section adhere to each other. The apparatus comprises a sample holder arranged for fixating a sample comprising the sealing section of the package, wherein at least part of the sample holder is transparent, a magnification device arranged on a first side of the sample holder, and an illumination device arranged on a second side of the sample holder, such that light is provided to the magnification device through the sample holder, wherein the first and second side are opposite sides of the sample holder.

Abstract: A packaging machine comprises a conveying device for advancing a web along a web advancement path at least to a tube forming station where the web is formed into a tube and for advancing the tube along a tube advancement path, a tube forming and sealing device configured to form and to longitudinally seal the tube, a tensioning device upstream of the tube forming station and configured to control the tension of the tube and a control unit configured to control packaging machine operation. The tensioning device comprises a main drive roller rotatable around a main rotation axis and a main drive motor configured to actuate rotation of the main drive roller around the main rotation axis. The control unit is configured to control the main drive motor such that angular speed and/or angular acceleration of the main drive roller is cyclically varied to control the tension of the tube.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a barrier-coated substrate web, coated with a layer of reduced graphene oxide. The invention further relates to laminated packaging materials comprising the barrier-coated substrate web, in particular intended for liquid carton food packaging, and to liquid carton packaging containers comprising the laminated packaging material.

Abstract: There is described an outfeed device for a packaging assembly configured to form and seal a plurality of packages containing a pourable product; the outfeed device comprises an input station, at which it receives, in use, the packages, and an output station, at which the packages exit, in use, from the outfeed device; the outfeed device comprises at least one selectively operable cart element cyclically movable along an endless path, comprising a receiving portion defining a receiving seat for picking one single package at a time at input station, housing at least part of the package, and being configured to bring the package from the input station to the output station.