In the first exemplary embodiment, it is provided that the transport direction of the infeed belt is perpendicular to the displacement direction of a carriage in the depositing device, which carriage with depositing elements correspondingly arranged therein takes over the foodstuff fed piece by piece from the infeed belt and discharges it exactly positioned above the underlying packaging mold.
All information and features disclosed in the documents, including the abstract, especially the spatial arrangement shown in the drawings, are claimed to be essential to the invention to the extent that, individually or in combination, they are novel compared to the prior art.
U-shaped boom 13 is arranged on the upper side of the base frame 9, which essentially consists of two parallel traverses extending over the area of the packaging machine 1 below.
In another configuration of the invention, it is sufficient to provide only one pair of depositing elements 30, 31 in the carriage 20, with which only one single lane, e.g. lane 35, can be fed. With the control, which is not shown in detail, e.g., a light barrier control, it is determined how the product lies on the depositing elements 30, 31, 30', 31', 30", 31" and only after the exact positioning of the product against the underlying packaging mold 37 has been determined is the drive of cylinders 28, 29 activated.
This is to certify that the attached document, “DE 42 02 915” -- originally written in German -- is, to the best of our knowledge and belief, a true, accurate, and complete translation into English.