The Sugden Horizontal Band Knife Slicing Machine is suitable for confectionery products requiring a single slice. The machine is constructed from stainless steel and comprises of the following items:

The main conveyor section of the unit is 2600mm long and has a belt width upto 600mm. The conveyor belt speed is variable and is controlled through an inverter located in the machine Control Panel. The conveyor belt is of a grip face profile and one set (2) of manually adjustable product guides are fitted as standard.

The Slicing Head with a fixed speed single band knife is assembled to the conveyor unit. Height adjustment of the blade is achieved via two hexagon head jacking bolts to ensure that the blade is parallel with the conveyor belt and a blade bottom position stop is incorporated to ensure that the blade can not come into contact with the main conveyor belt and/or guides. The blade is assembled on to two flat faced wheels with a back lip feature. This back lip feature is to ensure that the blade can not become dis-engaged. The manual tensioning of the blade is achieved by the incorporation of a hexagonal head tensioning bolt and tensioning spring. The unit also has a single tungsten blade guide, single blade scraper and a braked drive motor.

The cantilevered Top Deck assembly incorporates a Grip face, powered, conveyor belt and an independent support structure mounted to the main conveyor frame. The conveyor speed is variable and is controlled through an inverter located in the machine Control Panel. Note: Where a Top Deck is incorporated the speed of this unit and the main conveyor belt are linked via a speed controller to ensure that the speeds are common. If speed variations are required then these can be obtained by adjusting the hertz value of each individual inverter in the machine Control Panel. Manual height adjustment of the Top Deck is achieved via a single handwheel.

The machine is complete with three individual guard arrangements, two of which are positioned at the inlet (direction of product flow) and one at the exit side of the Slicing Head. The first of the inlet guards is a switched unit and is positioned with locating pins, the second inlet guard is a hinged/switched unit to give access for blade changing and the third guard located at the exit of the Slicing Head is secured with tamper proof screws. The construction of the guards is stainless steel side frames with aluminium spacer tubes between the side frames. The spacing of the spacer tubes is such as to prevent operator ingress into the slicing blade. The hinged guard is complete with two lifting handles (one at either side), the remaining two guards do not have lifting handles as these items only need to be removed occasionally for routine cleaning procedures.

Additional Blade Guide, Blade Break Detection Unit, Linked manual blade height adjustment, Additional Product Laning Guides (2/set), Main Conveyor Tru-track belt tracking and Top Deck Tru-track belt tracking.