Top and tail cutter for romaine lettuce
Effortlessly streamline your lettuce processing with this efficient solution, designed to precisely trim and sort frisée, endive, and romaine leaves, boosting both yield and productivity in high-capacity operations.
Trims and Sorts Lettuce with Precision
The TT450 Top and Tail Machine from KRONEN GmbH revolutionizes lettuce processing for the food industry. This semi-automatic machine excels in trimming and sorting operations, specifically engineered to handle frisée, endive, and romaine lettuce, as well as mixed green salads at up to 3,600 kg/h. Featuring a chain-based infeed belt, it uses gentle hold-down technology to maintain optimal cutting positions and variable knife adjustments to enhance yield and precision. Its robust stainless steel design ensures durability and easy cleaning, thanks to the open construction with removable covers. Ideal for food processing companies and vegetable processing facilities, the TT450 minimizes waste while improving throughput, requiring only two operators. Notably, the machine is compatible with optional waste and discharge belt accessories for continuous processing, making it an invaluable addition to any industrial food service provider looking to optimize leafy greens processing.
Benefits
- Increases productivity by up to 110% per person, drastically reducing manual labor requirements.
- Enhances yield up to 6% with precise and consistent cuts, ensuring minimal waste.
- Facilitates quick cleaning and maintenance with easily accessible design, minimizing downtime.
- Customizable cutting lengths cater to different raw materials, offering flexibility in processing.
- Improves operational safety with simple two-person operation and automatic safety checks.
- Applications
- Salads,Vegetables,Fruit
- End products
- Endive lettuce,Mixed green salads,Frisée lettuce,Bagged salads,Romaine lettuce
- Steps before
- Washing,Sorting,Conveying,Preparation
- Steps after
- Waste Disposal,Packaging,Further Processing,Mixing
- Input ingredients
- frisée lettuce,endive lettuce,romaine lettuce,green lettuces with flat stalks
- Output ingredients
- trimmed lettuce stalks,trimmed lettuce leaf tips,cored lettuce heads
- Market info
- KRONEN is known for manufacturing industrial food processing equipment, specializing in washing, cutting, peeling, and packaging machinery, recognized for innovation, high quality, and efficiency in automated food processing solutions.
- Capacity
- 3,600 kg/h
- Cutting thickness
- 10–60 mm
- Voltage
- 3–400 V N/PE
- Frequency
- 50 Hz
- Power
- 1.6 kW
- Dimensions (L×W×H)
- 4,500 x 1,305 x 1,800 mm
- Weight
- 810 kg
- Infeed height
- 965 mm
- Outfeed height
- 415 mm
- Diameter of raw product
- max. 380 mm
- Length of raw product
- max. 450 mm
- Automation level
- Semi-automatic
- Cleaning method
- Easy operation and cleaning
- Changeover time
- Quick adjustments for different products
- CIP/SIP
- Good accessibility for cleaning
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Energy efficiency
- Low personnel requirement
- Capacity
- Up to 3,600 kg/h
- Cutting Type
- Top and Tail
- Machine dimensions
- 4500 x 1305 x 1800 mm
- Machine weight
- 810 kg
- Infeed/placement height
- 965 mm
- Outfeed/delivery height
- 415 mm
- Maximum raw product diameter
- 380 mm
- Length of raw product
- max. 450 mm
- Cutting thickness
- 10–60 mm
- Discharge method
- Waste belt and chute
- Control panel type
- Manual crank
- Infeed speed adjustment
- Yes,adjustable
- Knife position customization
- Adjustable for yield optimization
- Waste sorting system
- Optional discharge belt
- Mobile discharge belt
- With casters