Patent ID: 8893599
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: B26D,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for cutting a food strand into slices, comprising the steps: feeding a food strand forward at a feed velocity to a cutting device including a rotating blade; cutting off successive slices with the cutting device from the food strand at an end of the food strand that is oriented forward in a feed direction during feeding; placing the cut off slices onto an intermediary storage device that is moveable in a transversal direction to the feed direction and in the feed direction in order to form a non-finished portion which is formed as a stacked or fish scaled slice arrangement with a total of m slices, wherein m is a natural number; moving the intermediary storage device with the non finished portion away from the cutting device in the feed direction with the feed velocity during forming of the non finished portion; transferring the non-finished portion from the intermediary storage device to a conveying device; completing the non-finished portion on the conveying device by cutting off and adding at least one additional slice to the non finished portion to form a finished portion which is formed as a stacked or fish scaled slice arrangement with a total of n slices, wherein n is a natural number greater or equal to three and n>m; successively reducing a distance between a top side of the non finished portion and a bottom side of the rotating blade with each slice added to the m slices when completing the non-finished portion to form the finished portion on the conveying device; and extracting the finished portion through the conveying device.