Patent ID: 8608368

Claim:
Method for controlling loading of food products in a food mixing unit, which loading occurs by means of at least one loader unit; the mixing unit comprising a weighing device, which comprises storage means to store at least one recipe comprising a list of food products to be loaded in the mixing unit and is suitable to check the weight of the food products of the recipe as they are loaded in the mixing unit; the loader unit being suitable to take each food product from at least one relative stocking area; the method being characterised in that it comprises the steps of: identifying each stocking area by means of a respective set of points in space, each of them defined by the relative geographic coordinates; associating to each food product of the recipe at least the set of points identifying said at least one relative stocking area; storing in said storage means, for each food product of the recipe, the first geographic coordinates of the set of points associated to said food product; acquiring, by the weighing device, for each food product of the recipe being loaded, second geographic coordinates identifying the place where the loader unit is located when it takes the food product from a stocking area, by means of at least one GPS receiver associated to the loader unit; and comparing, by the weighing device, the second geographic coordinates with the first geographic coordinates associated to the food product being loaded in order to check whether the correct food product is being taken.