A knife arrangement to minimize the occurrence of cracks and fissures during high speed cutting of food products

摘要

A cutting wheel for cutting slices of a product (172) feed, wherein the cutting wheel has a hub and comprises a plurality of knives (150 ') extending generally radially from the hub, in which each knife (150 ') has a surface (170) calibration, in which an edge (158) cutting moves in a plane (P) cut when it spins the wheel and an edge (162) opposite exit to edge (158) cutting, one end (164 ') terminal surface (170) adjacent calibration or intersects the knife edge opposite the edge (158) cut extending substantially parallel to the edge (158) cutting a contiguous and separate knife (150 ') of the edge (158) cutting the adjacent knife in a direction essentially perpendicular to the plane (P) cutting the cutting wheel to define therebetween a door opening, in which door opening is substantially constant and defined thickness (tf) of product aliment ditional sliced, and wherein the dimension of the distance between the end (164 ') terminal surface (170) calibration and the edge (158) cutting knife (150') contiguous, measured along a direction parallel to a plane (P) cutting wheel cutting, defines a dimension (y2) throat, wherein the ratio (y2 / tf) of the dimension (y2) of throat thickness (tf ) slice is from 1 to 1.7 and the end (164 ') terminal surface (170) of calibrating a knife (150') is moved away from the edge (158) cutting knife (150 ') contiguous and is moved away from the edge (162) opposite the edge (158) cutting said knife (150 ') exit, wherein the surface (170) calibration and the edge (162) output from said knife are joined by a surface (182) bevel.