Aufschnittmesser mit mehreren Schneidflächen.

摘要

An apparatus and method are provided for slicing food product sticks (22) such as loaves or chubs or the like of meat and cheese. A blade assembly (25; 45) is utilized which includes a plurality of, typically two, blade members (26, 27; 46, 47), each of which has a curved cutting surface (28, 29) that terminates at a trailing tip (36, 37). A non-slicing mode is achieved by having the blade assembly exhibit a substantial gap between the trailing tip (36, 37) of one blade member and the curved cutting surface leading edge (31, 32) of another blade member. The apparatus and method are particularly well suited for enhancing the throughput of a food processing line and for improving the quality of sliced products processed therethrough.