CONVEYING APPARATUS COMPRISING A CONVEYING PATH AND DESIGNED TO SUPPLY A PLURALITY OF PRODUCTS FOR CONSUMPTION HAVING SOFT PARTS TO A PROCESSING DEVICE, AND PROCESSING MACHINE COMPRISING A CONVEYING APPARATUS AND A PROCESSING DEVICE

摘要

A conveying apparatus has a conveying path to supply a plurality of products for consumption having soft parts and intended for processing to a processing device. A conveying intermediate space has conveying surfaces that face one another and receive the products for consumption between them while applying pressure thereto. A first conveying surface comprises a flexible surface-deformable conveying cover and a row arrangement of pressure elements that are arranged next to one another in a row extending transverse to the conveying direction, each having a pressure-applying transverse profile extending transverse to the conveying direction, and are held to be displaceable in the height dimension direction of the conveying intermediate space against a restoring force such that each pressure element co-operates with the surface-deformable conveying cover during the passage of the products for consumption through the conveying path in order to form a variable conveyor cross-section.

主权项

1. Conveying apparatus with a conveying path, designed to supply a plurality of sequential, similar products for consumption having soft parts and intended for processing and oriented longitudinally in the conveying direction, which products each have a variable profile cross-section transverse to the conveying direction and determined by a width and height dimension, with particularly falling or rising soft part areas, to a processing device, comprising at least one conveying section with conveying surfaces that face one another, which are arranged over one another in the dimension corresponding to the height dimension of the products for consumption and, with the application of pressure, come into contact with the products for consumption accommodating them therebetween in such a manner that between the conveying surfaces a conveying intermediate space is formed adapted during conveyance to the form of each profile cross-section of the conveyed products for consumption with a variable conveyor cross-section in the width and height dimension, wherein the one first conveying surface comprises a flexible, surface-deformable conveying cover which comes into contact with the conveyed products for consumption and is movable in the conveying direction by means of a conveyor drive and further comprises a row arrangement of pressure elements that are arranged next to one another in a row directed transverse to the conveying direction, covering each width of the conveying space, stationary on the conveying apparatus, each having a pressure-applying transverse profile extending transverse to the conveying direction, and being held to be displaceable in the height dimension of the conveying intermediate space against a restoring force such that each pressure element co-operates with the surface-deformable conveying cover during the passage of the products for consumption through the conveying path in order to form the variable conveyor cross-section and to work against the products for consumption, characterized in that pressure elements forming at least a partial row are each designed with a pressure-applying surface that determines the pressure-applying transverse profile, which pressure-applying surface is formed to have a convex profile cross-section over the entire pressure-applying transverse profile in order to apply pressure to the conveying cover and against the passing products for consumption.