Quatering machine
The LIMAS quartering machine can be delivered with 3 or 4 lanes depending on capacity required.
The quartering machine divides the potatoes into four pieces, with one cut along the longest axis and the other centrally across it.
The LIMAS quartering machine consists mainly of three parts. Feed elevator for singulating and synchronizing the infeed. Roller belt for orientation and centralising
Circular knife drum with circular halving knives and cross-cut knives, pusher-plate and ejection mechanism.
The feed elevator is equipped with cups which take the potatoes from a small container and feed them up to the roller belt. The cups are suited for the size of the potato to prevent double filling. An empty cup is better than two potatoes in the same cup for best quality cutting.
The roller belt consists of rollers with a special design. The potatoes will easily find their place between the rollers. Each potato will be placed with its geometrical axis parallel to the rollers and central between two of them.
The rollers have been machined with a diablo shape, so the potatoes will find the lanes and be placed central to the circular knives. The quartering machine is continuous running with no indexing.
For accurate quartering the cross-cut knives must come precisely between the rollers. To ensure this, the roller belt can be timed to the knifedrum very accurately and simply.
Depending on the size of the potatoes the quartering machine can be delivered with different roller pitches and diameters.
