Patent ID: 7509902

Claim:
An apparatus for the slicing of food products, comprising a machine housing, a product supply system with a cutting edge provided at one end and a cutting head housing with a rotatably driven cutting blade revolving in a cutting plane defined by the cutting edge, the cutting plane being perpendicular to the direction of movement of food product in the product supply system, wherein there is provided, between the cutting head housing ( 3 ) and the machine housing ( 1 ), an adjustment device ( 2 ) by means of which pre-adjustable settings of the cutting position of a cutting circle ( 4 ) of the cutting blade in mutual perpendicular X and/or Y directions relative to the cutting edge ( 5 ) can be carried out at least in the cutting plane defined by X and Y coordinates, wherein, for carrying out said settings, the cutting head housing ( 3 ) can make movements in the X and Y directions for subsequent cutting operations, wherein the adjustment device ( 2 ) includes a frame having a pair of horizontal carriers and a pair of vertical carriers and being linearly movable in the Y direction along the machine housing ( 1 ), and the cutting head housing ( 3 ) being mounted on the pair of horizontal carriers and linearly movable along the pair of horizontal carriers in the X direction to a cutting position which remains stationary during subsequent cutting operations, and wherein a rotational axis of the rotatably driven cutting blade is perpendicular to a plane defined by said X and Y directions.