Handling line for the food industry

automatichigh-productivity

Inserting bacon bellies into the hanging hooks is a strenuous activity, with risk of injury and occupational illness, and the same is true for hanging operations on the frames. The bacons are then smoked and frozen, and operators must remove them from the frames, or trees, extract the combs to send them on to further processing. Our system associates the devices for automatic insertion and extraction of the bellies into and from the hanging bars with our TFRC loading and unloading device, which is also used for hanging salami. The solution takes its cue from the constructional shape of the hanging bar, protected like the rest of the system by international patents, designed to make all operations involving it simple. The system for combing and loading bellies includes conveyor belts that feed the insertion units into the bars, a dynamic store from which the empty bars are taken, another for the bars with the product combed, and a TFRC Cartesian robot for frames or trees that transfers the empty bars into the dynamic store and picks up the bars with the bellies hung to load them into the frames, or trees, as soon as they are emptied. The system can process up to 8 bars/1′, with bellies from one or two feed lines, thus up to 40 bellies/1′ and the hooking device can load continuous systems. The system for unloading and extracting the bars from the bellies includes a TFRC unloading unit that transfers the bars with hung, cooled or frozen product to a dynamic storage unit, and then picks up the empty bars and loads them orderly into the frames, or trees, to be transferred to the washing machine.