Patent ID: 9132564
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for cutting a loaf-shaped food, comprising the steps of: advancing a food loaf toward a cut off knife by a feed apparatus, the feed apparatus including a vacuum gripper, and the advancing of the food loaf including advancing the vacuum gripper; cutting the food loaf into slices, strips or cubes by the cut off knife; fixing the food loaf to the vacuum gripper during the advancing of the food loaf, wherein the fixing of the food loaf comprises generating a negative pressure within an interior of a contact element of the vacuum gripper and contacting at least one fixing region of the surface of the food loaf with at least one suction region of the contact element, wherein the negative pressure is generated by at least one piston-cylinder unit whose piston and cylinder define the interior of the contact element.