Apparatus for processing a food product, such as a wheel of hard or semihard cheese, comprising: a disking unit configured to cut the food product and to obtain disks; a holing unit configured to make a hole in each of the disks to define an intermediate product shaped like a do-nut; a weighing unit configured to assess the weight of at least one of the disks or said intermediate product; a cutting unit configured to cut the intermediate product into a plurality of segments.

To minimize the frequency of losses in the form of product tailpieces, which cannot be sliced because of gripper claws located therein, long or endless products are produced, whether outside or inside the cutting machine, by positioning product parts adjacently in lengthwise direction one behind another and joining mutually facing end faces of these product parts. The product parts may be joined outside the machine, resulting in long but finite products, or by positioning within the machine and on a feed belt a new product part in each case in succession at the rear end of the product currently being sliced and joining the new product part to the rear end of the rearmost product part of the previous product to form a virtually endless product.

To minimize the frequency of losses in the form of product tailpieces, which cannot be sliced because of gripper claws located therein, long or endless products are produced, whether outside or inside the cutting machine, by positioning product parts adjacently in lengthwise direction one behind another and joining mutually facing end faces of these product parts. The product parts may be joined outside the machine, resulting in long but finite products, or by positioning within the machine and on a feed belt a new product part in each case in succession at the rear end of the product currently being sliced and joining the new product part to the rear end of the rearmost product part of the previous product to form a virtually endless product.

A cutting and shaping device for producing shaped cut items of a block of food. The cutting and shaping device comprises at least a receptacle for positioning the block of food, a blade for cutting the items off the block of food, a shaping gripper for gripping and shaping the cut items, and a control unit.

A cutting and shaping device for producing shaped cut items of a block of food. The cutting and shaping device comprises at least a receptacle for positioning the block of food, a blade for cutting the items off the block of food, a shaping gripper for gripping and shaping the cut items, and a control unit.

The invention relates to a device for moving portions, which each comprise at least one slice cut from a food product, in particular by means of a slicing device, in particular a high-speed slicer, comprising a plurality of individually movable transport movers each for at least one portion, a track system for the transport movers, in which track system the transport movers can be moved along at least one specified track in a transport direction, and a control apparatus for controlling the movements of the transport movers in the track system, wherein the transport movers each comprise at least one runner that interacts with the track system and at least one carrier for at least one portion, the at least one carrier being attached to the runner by means of a retainer, and wherein the drive for each transport mover is formed by the runner and the track system, which together form an electromagnetic drive for the transport mover.

The invention relates to a device for moving portions, which each comprise at least one slice cut from a food product, in particular by means of a slicing device, in particular a high-speed slicer, comprising a plurality of individually movable transport movers each for at least one portion, a track system for the transport movers, in which track system the transport movers can be moved along at least one specified track in a transport direction, and a control apparatus for controlling the movements of the transport movers in the track system, wherein the transport movers each comprise at least one runner that interacts with the track system and at least one carrier for at least one portion, the at least one carrier being attached to the runner by means of a retainer, and wherein the drive for each transport mover is formed by the runner and the track system, which together form an electromagnetic drive for the transport mover.

The present invention relates to a composition for coating cheese. In particular, the present invention relates to a composition for coating cheese comprising a high amount of beeswax and one or more further compound selected from the group of unsaturated fatty acids, fatty acid methyl esters and fatty alcohols.

The present invention relates to a composition for coating cheese. In particular, the present invention relates to a composition for coating cheese comprising a high amount of beeswax and one or more further compound selected from the group of unsaturated fatty acids, fatty acid methyl esters and fatty alcohols.