| Weber Maschinenbau GmbH Breidenbach Patent applications |
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| 20120103761 | APPARATUS WITH PRODUCT CONVEYOR AND TRANSVERSE DRIVE - The present invention relates to an apparatus having a product conveyor drivable in a conveying direction and a transverse drive by which the product conveyor is movable in a direction transverse to the conveying direction. The product conveyor is coupled to a compensation mass by means of which forces can be compensated which occur by a transverse movement of the product conveyor. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120097002 | SCANNING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE CONTOUR OF AN OBJECT - The disclosure relates to a scanning device for detecting the contour of an object. The scanning device has a light source for generating a light pattern on the surface area of the object, and a camera for detecting the light pattern on the surface area of the object. The disclosure describes that the one light source includes at least one incoherent spot light source, and that between the at least one spot light source and the object, a shadow caster defines the light pattern on the surface area of the object. The disclosure also relates to a method for detecting the contour of an object. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120089244 | METHOD FOR SLICING FOODSTUFFS - The disclosure describes a method for cutting a food product into slices for producing portions by taking into account the target weight thereof. Information about a remainder of the food product to be sliced is used to control corresponding actuators for a successive food product to be sliced. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120086226 | PORTION GRIPPER - The disclosure relates to a portion gripper for picking up a product with two blade pans and a drive mechanism for moving the blade pans between a first position, in which the blade pans can be placed down on opposite sides of the product to be picked up onto a support for the product to be picked up, and a second position in which the blade pans are at least partially located under the product to be picked up. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120060663 | CUTTING DEVICE - The invention relates to a cutting device for slicing food products, comprising a driven circular blade rotating about a blade axis revolving on a track about a center axis, and a cover element rotatable relative to the circular blade on the side of the circular blade facing away from a product to be sliced. The cover element is driven by an auxiliary drive, such that it rotates relative to the circular blade about the blade axis. The auxiliary drive is diverted from a drive of the circular blade. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120060659 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SETTING A CUTTING GAP AT A CUTTING APPARATUS - The invention relates to a device and to a method for adjusting a blade clearance on a cutting device for slicing a product, in particular a food product ( | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120060658 | Apparatus and method for slicing food products - An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed which supplies a product to be sliced along a product supply direction to a cutting plane in which a cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or revolving manner, with the product feed including at least one product conveyor designed for the continuous conveying of the product and product holder which can be brought into engagement with the product, in particular with a rear product end. The product holder is designed to be adjusted after the start of the slicing process from a waiting position releasing the path for the product into a working position behind the product and/or in the path for the product and back into the waiting position after the end of the slicing process. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120042758 | PORTION FORMING ON MULTITRACK SLICING - The invention relates to a method for the simultaneous multitrack slicing of a plurality of food products, in particular food products of different types, into respective portions including at least one product slice, wherein the products are sliced using a common slicing apparatus, in particular a high-performance slicer, which has at least one cutting blade which rotates in a cutting plane about a blade axis and/or revolves about a central axis in a planetary motion and in that the products are individually supplied to the cutting blade such that each portion satisfies a condition predefined for the respective track which in particular relates to the weight of the portion, the weight and/or the thickness of the product slices forming the portion and/or the number of the product slices forming the portion. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120042757 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CUTTING OF FOOD PRODUCTS - The invention relates to a method for the simultaneous multiple track cutting of several food products, in which the products are cut by means of a common cutting apparatus, in particular a high performance slicer, which has at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis in a cutting plane and/or revolves about a central axis in a planetary motion manner and to which the products are supplied in multiple tracks, and in which blank cuts are carried out in at least a passive track and/or in which the supply of the respective product is suspended at least at times, while the respective product is sliced in at least one other active track. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120042612 | CONVEYING OF ARTICLES - The invention relates to a method for conveying articles, in particular product slices produced by simultaneous slicing of a plurality of food products or respective portions including a plurality of product slices, wherein the articles are conveyed in a conveying direction on a main conveying path in multitracks in desired arrangements formed by articles from different tracks, in particular in rows extending transverse to the conveying direction, incomplete arrangements of articles having at least one deficient point are expelled onto a secondary conveying path and desired arrangements are formed from the articles forming the incomplete arrangements. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120036971 | Blade for providing a cut at food products - The invention relates to a blade for cutting food products, in particular sausages, comprising a cutter having two partial cutters disposed tapered toward each other in a curved surface. The invention further relates to a cutting device for cutting food products, having a blade and having a holder on which the blade is rotatably disposed. The cutting device is designed so that an end piece can be sliced off of a product, the longitudinal axis thereof being oriented substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the blade, by a rotary motion of the blade. The invention further relates to a method for processing a food product. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120031682 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING PORTIONS OF PRODUCTS - An apparatus for handling portions of products, in particular food products, having a product conveyor which conveys the portions after one another to at least one main conveyor track along a direction of conveying and having at least one sensor for recognizing portions of incorrect weight. A correction track is provided which has a first conveying section and a second conveying section. The first conveying section serves to branch off portions of incorrect weight from the main conveying track and to convey them to a weight correction station. The second conveying section serves to supply weight-corrected portions back to the main conveying track. The first conveying track and the second conveying track are separated from one another in the region of the weight correction station by an interruption of the correction track which prevents a transfer of portions of incorrect weight from the first conveying section to the second conveying section. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20110247470 | APPARATUS FOR SLICING FOOD PRODUCTS - An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed, at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis and/or revolves about a center axis in planetary motion and to which at least one product to be sliced can be fed in a product feed direction and includes a blade holder to which the cutting blade can be attached. An adjustment device is provided by means of which the cutting blade is movable relative to the blade holder in an adjustment direction. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110247469 | APPARATUS FOR SLICING FOOD PRODUCTS - An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed, at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis and/or revolves about a center axis and to which at least one product to be sliced can be fed in a product feed direction and a blade holder to which the cutting blade can be attached. An adjustment device is configured to deform the cutting blade. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110247466 | APPARATUS FOR SLICING FOOD PRODUCTS - An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed device, at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis and/or revolves in a planetary motion about a center axis and to which at least one product to be sliced can be fed in a product feed direction and includes a blade holder for the cutting blade. Means are provided for producing a rotary movement of the cutting blade relative to the blade holder and for transforming the relative rotary movement into a linear movement of the cutting blade relative to the blade holder in an adjustment direction. | 10-13-2011 |
| 20110202164 | Apparatus and method for preparing product portions - An apparatus for preparing portions of products, in particular food products, conveyed by means of a product conveyor, includes a plurality of robots which each define a working region. A first robot serves to sort the conveyed products in accordance with a sorting criterion. At least one second robot serves to pick up sorted products from the product conveyor and to place them down at a placement location in order to prepare a product portion satisfying a target criterion at the placement location. | 08-18-2011 |
| 20110185865 | Apparatus for slicing food products - An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed which is configured to convey at least one product along a direction of advance through a cutting plane in which at least one cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotational and/or orbital manner, to cut slices from the product, wherein a spacing can be established between the cutting blade and the product for a blank cut phase in which the cutting blade continues to move, but does not cut any slices from the product in so doing. The product feed is configured to continue to convey the product along the direction of advance during the blank cutting phase. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110182709 | Method for Speed Optimizing a Robot - The invention relates to a method for speed optimizing a robot which is configured to carry out a plurality of product transfer procedures which follow one another and in which products are transferred from a pick-up region into a placement region, wherein at least one first transfer procedure is repeatedly carried out at which a first kind of product is picked up at a first predetermined pick-up location of the pick-up region and is placed down at a first predetermined placement location of the placement region, in which method an upper limit for the permitted kinematic load on the robot is defined and the speed at which the first transfer procedure is carried out is increased, starting from a starting speed at which the resulting kinematic load on the robot is in any case below the defined upper limit, during a teaching phase on every repetition of the first transfer procedure up to an ideal working speed at which the resulting kinematic load corresponds at least approximately to the defined upper limit. The invention also relates to a robot having a robot control for carrying out the method. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110179922 | Apparatus for slicing food products - The invention relates to an apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to high-performance slicers, having a product feed, at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis and/or orbits a center axis in a planetary manner and to which at least one product to be sliced can be fed in a product feed direction and having an adjustment device for the cutting blade with which the cutting blade is movable between a cutting position and an additional function position, wherein the cutting blade is coupled to the adjustment device at a first region and to a guide at a second region, and wherein the adjustment movement of the cutting blade is fixed by an exciter movement of the adjustment device and by the guide. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110156417 | Method of operating a robot and apparatus comprising a robot - A robot includes a kinematic mechanism and an end effector coupled to the kinematic mechanism for transferring products, in particular food products. The end effector is automatically cleaned on the satisfaction of a cleaning criterion. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110154969 | Scanning Device - The present invention relates to a scanning device for determining at least partial cross-sectional profiles of food products to be sliced in accordance with the light cutting process, having at least one illumination device for generating a light line on the surface of a product and having at least one detection device for taking images of the product surface including the light line, wherein the illumination device includes at least one light source which is configured to generate a light beam propagating in the direction of a scanning region for the product in a scanning plane and widening in so doing and includes an optically effective device which is arranged in the propagation path of the widening light beam and which is configured to counter the divergence of at least some of the incident light. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110150610 | Apparatus for transferring products - An apparatus for transferring products, e.g. food products, from a pick-up region into a placement region includes a conveying device to convey the products into the pick-up region after one another in a conveying direction and at least one first and one second robot which are arranged spaced apart from one another when viewed in the conveying direction in the environment of the conveying device and which each include a robot base and an end effector movable relative to the robot base for picking up and placing down the products. The spacing between the robot base of the first robot and the robot base of the second robot can be set. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110126680 | Apparatus for slicing food products - The invention relates to an apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to a high-performance slicer, comprising a product feed, at least one cutting blade which rotates about a blade axis and/or orbits a center axis in a planetary manner and to which at least one product to be sliced can be fed in a product feed direction and having an adjustment device for the cutting blade with which the cutting blade is movable in an adjustment direction, with the blade axis and/or the center axis of the cutting blade being inclined with respect to the horizontal during the slicing and with the adjustment direction of the cutting blade extending obliquely to the blade axis and/or to the center axis of the cutting blade. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110126679 | Apparatus for slicing food products - The present invention relates to an apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to high-performance slicers, having a product feed which is made to feed at least one product to a cutting plane in which at least one cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or orbiting manner, for cutting slices from the product, wherein the cutting blade is pivotally mounted and is pivotable for carrying out at least one additional function, in particular for carrying out blank cuts, for setting a cutting gap and/or for the vertical or dipping depth setting such that the spacing between the cutting blade and a reference plane which extends parallel to the cutting plane or coincides with the cutting plane is changed and in this process the cutting blade remains parallel to the cutting plane or departs from a parallel alignment. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20100307304 | Apparatus and method for the slicing of food products - An apparatus for the slicing of food products has a product feeder which includes a plurality of belt conveyors arranged parallel next to one another. The belt conveyors each include an endless belt serving as a product support for a product to be sliced and they are drivable together in order simultaneously to feed a plurality of products which each lie on one of the belts to a cutting plane in which a cutting blade moves. The belt conveyors have a common drive with a drive shaft. For the setting of an individual single conveying speed for each belt conveyor, a respective setting apparatus is associated with them which is made to individually change the running diameter of the drive shaft in the region of the belt. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100307303 | Apparatus and method for the slicing of food products - An apparatus for the slicing of food products has a product feeder which includes a plurality of belt conveyors arranged parallel next to one another. The belt conveyors each include an elastic endless belt serving as a product support for a product to be sliced and they are drivable together in order simultaneously to feed a plurality of products which each lie on one of the belts to a cutting plane in which a cutting blade moves. The belt conveyors have a common drive with a drive shaft. For the setting of an individual single conveying speed for each belt conveyor, a respective setting apparatus is associated with them which is made to individually change the degree of stretching of the belt. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100288091 | Apparatus for the Slicing of a Food Product - The invention relates to a device, in particular a high-power slicing device, for slicing a food product in accordance with a selected slicing programme. Said slicing device comprises a process control and several components that can be mounted in or onto the device in accordance with the selected slicing programme. Said components respectively have a coding that clearly identifies the component and detection means for detecting the coding of a component that is mounted in or onto the device. Said detection means is connected to the process control which can determine from the detected coding whether the component has been mounted in accordance with the selected slicing programme. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100267320 | Fat Cover Measurement Device - The invention relates to a measuring device ( | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100263471 | Robot having delta kinematics - The invention relates to a robot having delta kinematics, comprising a tool receiver which has a joint plate connected to a robot base via control arms and a drive for the rotation of a tool received by the tool receiver, said drive being fastened to the joint plate. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100228397 | Apparatus for the operation of a robot - The invention relates to an apparatus for the operation of a robot having a product gripper which is designed to represent at least one approach position of the product gripper for the picking up and/or placing down of a product, in particular of a food product, as a graphical element on a display device. The apparatus is designed so that the respective graphical element can be directly displaced on the display device for the setting of the coordinates of the respective approach position, with the coordinates of the respective approach position being changed automatically in response to such a displacement of the graphical element in accordance with the displacement. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100225132 | Product gripper - The invention relates to a product gripper for the taking up of a product, having two vane blades, having a driving means to move the vane blades between a first position, in which the vane blades can be placed onto a support for the product to be taken up at oppositely disposed sides of the product to be taken up, and a second position, in which the vane blades are located at least partly beneath the product to be taken up, and having a downholder for the fixing of the product to be taken up while the vane blades are moved beneath it, with the downholder being arranged above a vane blade plane defined by the vane blades. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100225131 | Product gripper - The invention relates to a product gripper for the taking up of a product, having two vane blades, having a driving means to move the vane blades between a first position, in which the vane blades can be placed onto a support for the product to be taken up at oppositely disposed sides of the product to be taken up, and a second position, in which the vane blades are located at least partly beneath the product to be taken up, and having a downholder for the fixing of the product to be taken up while the vane blades are moved beneath it, with the downholder being arranged above a vane blade plane defined by the vane blades. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100192745 | DISPLACEMENT UNIT - The present invention relates to a displacement unit, serving to create a translational displacement movement of a cutting head of a cutting machine, particularly a slicer for slicing food products, wherein the head can be attached to the displacement unit. The displacement unit has a housing assembly and an actuator disposed in the housing assembly, the actuator comprising a stationary part in the displacement direction, and a part displaceable in relation to the stationary part in the displacement direction, for carrying out the displacement movement. The displacement unit further has at least one bearing that is attached to the housing assembly and is elastically deformable in the displacement direction, the displaceable part engaging on this bearing. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100186569 | Knife Holding Apparatus - The invention relates to a knife holding device, particularly for derinding machines, comprising a knife holder ( | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100162868 | CUTTING KNIFE - The invention relates to a cutting blade for machines for slicing food products, particularly for high-speed slicers, wherein the cutting blade is a sickle-shaped blade rotating about a rotation axis during the slicing operation and having a cutting edge that deviates from a circular shape at the radially outer circumference thereof and revolves about the rotation axis, particularly in the manner of a spiral, the edge being positioned in a cutting plane extending perpendicular to the rotation axis, wherein the cutting edge forms the radially outer end of a cutting surface, which forms part of the blade back side facing away from a product to be sliced during the slicing operation and includes a blade angle together with the cutting plane, and wherein the size of the blade angle varies in the circumferential direction. | 07-01-2010 |
