Specialists in slicing and packaging

Brevetti Gasparin comes into its own when slicing and packing baked products for large artisan businesses and the baked goods industry are involved. They are also revealing a series of innovations for the iba trade fair.

B revetti Gasparin was founded around 60 years ago in Marano Vicentino, Italy, the Brevetti part of its name indicating that the company owns numerous patents. Gasparin is the founder’s family name. The company, which now employs 30 staff, began at that time with classical bread slicers for artisan bakeries. Then, more than ten years ago, it reoriented towards a product range focusing on the needs of major businesses: machines that automatically cut and slice bread, baked products and cakes, pack them into so-called flow-pack bags and close the bags with a metal wire reinforced clip.

In addition, cutting and packing in cushion-shaped big packs is available mainly for the bun industry. Something that sounds so simple is actually quite varied. The buns can be cut into from one side, cut through, cut into from both sides, cut into from the top etc. Just as there are no limits to imaginative ideas where positioning the cut, there is equal flexibility with respect to the number and arrangement of the buns in the bags.

“Nowadays,” says Brevetti Gasparin, “we start our product range where it used to end. The cutting technology extends from reciprocating and band blades to the circular saws used for croutons and focaccia, for example.”

According to Brevetti Gasparin, as a rule the company supplies tailor-made fully-automatic plants with a supervisions system that gives customers the ability to monitor functions online. Three quarters of all their equipment is exported, principally to other EU countries, but sales are also flourishing in the Arabian region, in North and South America and in Asia. In addition to the BulkPacker for buns, Gasparin will present at the iba trade fair in Munich a new model of a continuous band slicer that cuts up to 3600 breads per hour. Cutting takes place using endless bands running over two rollers, one of which is driven. Tension in the stainless steel or Widia steel guided bands is regulated pneumatically. The infeed belt is available with a maximum width of 600 mm with an adjustable lateral guide and forward feed speed, also adjustable. The upper conveyor belt can be adjusted by a handwheel to allow the bread to be pushed towards the slicing belts.

A new mechanical bag-sealing machine that closes bags with clips (clipband) and which they will be exhibiting at the iba trade fair also achieves the same hourly performance of 3600 packs per hour. The filled bags are transported to a clipping unit positioned at a 90° angle with an inclination angle of 20°, 30° and optionally at 45° or 60° degrees. The clipping unit moves automatically, and a belt that is independent of the other

As a rule, feeding is manual on two belts which converge and bring the product to the cutting head. Cutting height and depth are adjustable, of course, and the band runs at a maximum speed of 18 m/minute. +++