A cutting machine for cutting a food product includes a housing and a blade cover removably mounted to the housing via at least two positive or non-positive fastening points. A circular blade is rotatably disposed in the housing such that the blade cover covers a surface of the circular blade. A carriage is movably mounted parallel to the circular blade and includes a carriage surface for holding the food product. Each of the fastening points are disposed beneath the carriage surface.

It is a system for processing produce comprising a plurality of freestanding pucks for carrying items of produce, each puck comprising a base and a spike extending from the base, the spike configured to pierce an item of produce and hold the item in a substantially fixed position relative to the base.

A chopping apparatus for chopping a food item has a lower body portion and an upper body portion hinged together such that a hinge axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal directions of the body portions. Blades are supported on the upper body portion opposite a supporting surface on the lower body portion so as to be arranged to chop a food item supported on the supporting surface when the body portions are closed towards one another. The blades include lateral blades that are oriented perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the body portions and generally parallel to the hinge axis.

An apparatus for cutting potato slices, the apparatus comprising an annular-shaped cutting head and a central impeller coaxially mounted for rotation within the cutting head for delivering potatoes radially outwardly toward the cutting head, a plurality of knives serially mounted annularly around the cutting head, and a plurality of orientation elements serially and annularly mounted within the impeller to define a plurality of cutting zones located around the impeller, each cutting zone being between adjacent orientation elements, wherein radially inner parts of adjacent orientation elements are separated in circumferential direction to define between adjacent orientation elements a throat for passage therethrough of a potato in a radially outward direction into the respective cutting zone toward the cutting head, wherein the throat has a width of from 70 to 140 mm.

The present invention relates to an automatic machine for cutting fruit, particularly strawberries or radishes, comprising an aligning and transporting unit (4, 140, 340, 404) for aligning, according to at least one line, and transporting fruits (F) from an origin zone to a first destination zone; a placing and transporting unit (5, 5′, 150, 205, 350, 405) for placing said fruits (F) according to a predetermined orientation and transporting said fruits (F) from said first destination zone to a second destination zone, said placing and transporting unit (5, 5′, 150, 205, 350, 405) being arranged downstream said aligning and transporting unit (4, 140, 340, 404); a conveying unit (6, 160, 210, 406) for conveying said fruits (F) from said second destination zone to a third destination zone, said conveying unit (6, 160, 210, 406) comprising a vacuum-generating device (66) to make a respective waste portion of said fruits (F) adhering to said conveying unit (6, 160, 210) by vacuum, said conveying unit (6, 160, 210, 406) being arranged downstream said placing and transporting unit (5, 5′, 150, 205, 350, 405); and a cutting unit (7, 170, 211, 407) for cutting said fruits (F) in correspondence of said third destination zone such as to remove said respective waste portion of said fruits (F).

The invention relates to an interface between a knife and a knife holder, wherein the knife and the knife holder are designed such that the knife can be mounted on the knife holder in such a way that the knife is initially positioned on the knife holder in the axial direction, and then by rotating either the knife relative to the knife holder and/or the knife holder relative to the knife, the knife is locked on the knife holder with respect to the axial direction, wherein the knife has a single central fastening opening which is delimited by a knife edge region, and the knife holder has a fastening section for the fastening opening of the knife, which is delimited by a holder edge region.

A device (I) for moving a treatment head (JO) and a tray (20) in relation to a plane P., The tray (20) of any shape is inscribed within a rectangle of width A and length 0.8., and includes a first driver (21) suitable for cooperating with a first actuator (22) so as to move the tray (20) in translation within a plane that is parallel to said plane .P. in a movement zone (30) formed from at least two perpendicular edges associated with a reference frame, Q, y, in a direction that is normally parallel to one of said axes or y, the device. (I) The device includes at least: a mobile arm (11) of length R pivotably mounted on one of its ends about an axis £ that is perpendicular to said plane .P., set in motion by a second actuator.

A cutting machine for slicing a loaf into slices includes a forming tube channel extending in an axial direction, with an open longitudinal side and a channel cavity. A plurality of cross press stamps of different widths can each be inserted into the open longitudinal side of the forming tube channel for forming a forming tube having a rear end and a cutting end. The cutting machine further includes a cutting device with a blade arranged in front of the cutting end of the forming tube, and the blade is displaceable in a transverse direction relative to the forming tube. A width of the channel cavity of the forming tube channel is variable, and a cross press drive is provided for displacing a cross press stamp of the plurality of cross press stamps into the open longitudinal side of the forming tube channel in a first transverse direction.

A product slicer having an adjustable gauge plate precisely positioned by the unique cooperation of a cam plate and a cam follower.

Machines and methods suitable for performing cutting operations on products to yield a reduced-size product, for example, slicing and strip-cutting elongate food products. Such a method includes simultaneously delivering products to annular-shaped cavities of a rotating impeller. The products are simultaneously delivered with a feed unit that has a feed chute extension that protrudes into an interior of the impeller. The feed chute extension defines feed chutes that are aligned with the annular-shaped cavities of the impeller and direct the products to circumferential series of pockets within the annular-shaped cavities. The products are held within the pockets by centrifugal force as the products are carried past a slicing knife to form a first longitudinal cut through each of the products during a rotation of the impeller and to produce therefrom a substantially longitudinally sliced product.