ROBOT FOR MANIPULATING ONE OR MORE FOOD PRODUCTS

Fecha de publicación: 15/12/2022
Fuente: WIPO Meat
The present relates to a gripper assembly for manipulating food products, such as fresh, partly or fully prepared (meat) products, such as hamburgers, sausages, etc. To this end, the gripper assembly for manipulating food products, such as food products, comprises: a gripper frame; a gripper jaw, in which case the gripper jaw is adapted to have an open position in which the gripper jaw can enclose the product, and a closed position in which the product is grabbed securely and can be manipulated; the gripper jaw comprising at least two gripper fingers consisting of a rod of which a part of the rod forms, at the free end, a gripper finger end which extends at an angle of at least substantially 90 degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rod, and the gripper jaw is furthermore adapted to be moved so that it is situated above the product in the open position, and the gripper fingers can rotate about the longitudinal axis, so that the gripper finger ends can be rotated so that they end up under the product, whereby the gripper jaw is brought into the closed position.