Patent ID: 6473173
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: B26D,G01N

Abstract:
A method for determining content of predetermined ingredients with stochastic distribution in a sliceable food products (3) of solid and nonhomogeneous consistency, during incremental size reduction of said product by means of a knife assembly, in which a light beam emanating from a measuring head (16) of a light guide system (17, 8) is beamed into the product (3), and the light reflected from the product (3) and into the measuring head (16) is spectrometrically analyzed and evaluated, and in which the measuring head (16), which is coupled to the movement of the knife assembly, is guided, with its front face and in a sliding fashion, over an outer surface of the productunder direct surface contact, under a predetermined contact pressure, and at a predetermined relative speed.