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.

An apparatus for a single-track or multitrack provision of web-like interleaved sheet material at a cutting region in which products supplied on one track or on multiple tracks are cut into slices and interleaved sheets are introduced which are cut off from the provided interleaved sheet material in the cutting region, comprising an output device which is configured to eject at least one material web into the cutting region, wherein the output device comprises at least one driven feed roll and at least one counter-unit which forms a feed gap for the material web together with the feed roll.

The invention relates to an apparatus for a single-track or multitrack provision of web-like interleaved sheet material at a cutting region in which products supplied on one track or on multiple tracks are cut into slices and interleaved sheets are introduced which are cut off from the provided interleaved sheet material in the cutting region, having a material store; and having a removal device which is configured for a removal of a material web from the material store, wherein a loop store in which the material web forms a loop is provided for the material web.

The invention relates to an output unit for a provision individually per track of sheet material for placing beneath products fed on two or multiple tracks, in particular beneath food portions, said output unit comprising a draw-in device that is configured to draw in individually per track a respective one material web of the sheet material per track and that in particular has at least one driven draw-in shaft and at least one draw-in pressure unit; a separation device that is configured to separate the sheet material from the material webs; and an ejection device that is configured to discharge sheet material on two or multiple tracks and that comprises a driven ejection roller and an ejection counter-unit that forms an ejection gap for the sheet material together with the ejection roller, wherein the ejection roller is jointly associated with at least two tracks.

The invention relates to a slicing apparatus for slicing food products, in particular to a high-performance slicer, comprising a product feed that feeds products to be sliced on one or more tracks in a feed direction to a cutting region in which the products are cut into slices during a cutting operation of the slicing apparatus by means of a cutting blade, in particular a revolving and/or rotating cutting blade, that performs cutting movements; a portioning region in which portions are formed from the slices and each comprise one slice or a plurality of slices disposed at least partly above one another; and a control device that controls the cutting operation and that has operating information that relates to the cutting operation, wherein a treatment agent device for providing a liquid treatment agent is integrated into the slicing apparatus and is configured to provide the treatment agent during the cutting operation such that the treatment agent is applied to a respective cut surface of a product and/or to at least one respective flat side of at least one slice, and wherein a control unit is provided for the treatment agent device and is configured to control the operation of the treatment agent device in dependence on the cutting operation on the basis of at least a portion of the operating information of the control device.

The present invention is a blowing device to be used in interleaver machines for cold cuts. This blowing device enables the plastic used in interleaving, responsible for separating the cold cuts, to be very thin, not folding or being mispositioned, since the device generates negative pressure between the cold cut slice and the plastic.

The invention relates to an apparatus for the single-track or multi-track slicing of food products, in particular a high-performance slicer, having a product feed that feeds products to be sliced and disposed on a product support on one track or on multiple tracks in a feed direction to a cutting region in which a cutting blade moves, in particular in a rotating and/or revolving manner, in order to slice the fed products in a cutting plane, which extends perpendicular to the feed direction, at a predefined or predefinable cutting frequency by means of the cutting blade; and having a dividing device that has at least one holder, which is arranged in the region of the cutting plane, for at least one elongated separation element, which extends in a dividing plane extending in parallel with the cutting plane, and a drive for the holder by which the holder can be excited to perform to-and-fro movements perpendicular to the feed direction at a dividing frequency in order to divide the front ends of the products by means of the separation element in parallel with the feed direction so that, in a respective cutting process, a plurality of product parts are cut off from a respective front product end by means of the cutting blade, wherein a control device is provided, and wherein the drive for the holder comprises a drive that can be controlled by means of the control device, in particular a servomotor.

The present invention refers to an embodiment arrangement applied to a blowing device to be used in interleaver machines for cold cuts. This blowing device is configured to enable the plastic used in interleaving, responsible for separating the cold cuts, to be very thin, not folding or being mispositioned, since the device generates negative pressure between the cold cut slice and the plastic.

An add-on device for a slicing machine for inserting a separation sheet in between food slices comprises a container containing (a) a sheet tray, (b) a pack of separation sheets positioned on the sheet tray, the pack of separation sheets comprises at least two types of separation sheets, each having a cut-out portion at a different location to allow contacting a second in-line sheet through a top sheet, the separation sheets are organized in said container in an alternating manner, (c) a mechanic/electro-mechanic mechanism for pushing the sheet tray upwards, (d) a three-position lever, the three-position lever comprises a left wing, a right wing and a lever actuator, the lever actuator rotates clockwise and counterclockwise across its longitudinal axis in an alternating manner, and (e) an electronic system to monitor, control, and operate the operation of the add-on device.

The invention relates to an apparatus for providing web-like interleaving sheet material on one track or on multiple tracks at a cutting zone in which products supplied on one track or multiple tracks are cut into slices and interleaving sheets are introduced that are cut off from the provided interleaving sheet material in the cutting zone, having a removal device that is configured to remove the material web from a material store, and having a loop store in which the material web forms a loop having a loop portion at the incoming side and a loop portion at the outgoing side, wherein the loop store provides a reception space for the loop whose one side forms a support for the one loop portion and whose side opposite the support forms a boundary for the other loop portion.