Patent ID: 8813639

Claim:
A machine for processing food products, comprising: a processing tool that is oscillatingly driven by a motor and a drive train, and a trigger system which, in each cycle of the oscillating movement of the processing tool, triggers a predetermined action of the machine at a predetermined timing, the trigger system including: a signal generator arranged in the drive train for the processing tool and adapted to deliver a reference time signal in each cycle, a timer for measuring a time that has passed since the last occurrence of the reference time signal, and an electronic control device which stores a displacement/time curve of the processing tool for at least one processing speed of the machine and in which a position of the processing tool is programmable at which the action shall be triggered, the control device being adapted to determine, on the basis of the displacement/time curve, the trigger timing corresponding to that position and to trigger the action when the timer reaches this timing, wherein the control device is adapted to generate, on a screen, an input template in which the positions of the processing tool belonging to the trigger timings are adapted to be input.