Segment cutter for potatoes and carrots
Achieve precise cuts on vegetables like carrots and potatoes with minimal feathering, ensuring clean, uniform slices and strips essential for producing high-quality end products such as French fries and carrot sticks.
The Velocicut® Cutting Head from Urschel Laboratories is engineered to enhance vegetable processing by delivering precision cuts for elongated produce, such as carrots and potatoes. Its unique blade design minimizes feathering, ensuring clean cuts whether preheated or raw, reducing downstream breakage. Designed for high-speed, continuous operations, it integrates seamlessly with existing production lines, including watergun systems and the Urschel Model VSC Cutter. The available sizes, 3″ and 4″, accommodate various product dimensions, offering a range of square and rectangular cuts from 0.156″ to 1.0″. Made from durable materials, the Velocicut® ensures longevity and minimal maintenance, with convenient blade tensioning eliminating the need for sharp edges. Ideal for producing French fries, potato chips, and vegetable slices, it serves food processors and industrial food manufacturers aiming for consistent quality and efficiency.
Benefits
- Ensures precise and consistent cuts, reducing product waste and improving yield.
- Decreases maintenance requirements with durable, tension-held blades.
- Enhances operational efficiency by integrating into existing high-speed production lines.
- Minimizes product damage, preserving quality with reduced feathering and breakage.
- Offers flexibility with customizable cut sizes, meeting diverse product specifications.
- Applications
- Potatoes,Vegetables,Elongated produce,Carrots
- End products
- Potato wedges,Vegetable slices,Dehydrated potato products,Potato chips,Carrot sticks,Crudites trays,French fries
- Steps before
- Preheating,Sorting,Washing,Inspection
- Steps after
- Packing,Quality Control,Cooking,Freezing
- Input ingredients
- carrots,potatoes,elongated products
- Output ingredients
- square strips,rectangular strips,slab cuts,segment cuts,slabs,bi-slabs,cross slabs
- Market info
- Urschel is known for its expertise in precision cutting technology and manufacturing industrial food processing equipment, especially cutting machines. It has a strong reputation for quality and innovation in delivering engineered-to-order solutions for the food processing industry.
- Cut size (square strips)
- .156" (4.0 mm) to 1.0" (25.4 mm)
- Cut size (rectangular strips)
- Combination of square strip sizes
- Cut type
- Square,rectangular,slab,bi-slab,cross slab,segment
- Blade size
- 3" (76.5 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm)
- Application
- Carrots,potatoes,elongated products
- Material handling
- Reduces feathering,clean cuts
- Compatibility
- Model VSC Segment Cutter,water gun systems
- Edge type
- No sharp knife edge,tension held
- Customization
- Test cut available for specific setup
- Integration Capability
- Can be integrated with Model VSC Cutter or watergun systems
- Cutting Flexibility
- Produces square,rectangular,slab,bi-slab,cross slab,and segment cuts
- Feathering Reduction
- Unique design reduces feathering on preheated or unpreheated potatoes
- Blade Tension Mechanism
- Blades held by tension
- No sharp knife edge
- Changeover Options
- Same blade and block produce different sizes of cuts
- Abrasion resistance
- High
- Cleanability
- Easy to clean
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Good
- Density/particle size
- Varied
- Biological compatibility
- Food grade
- Product compatibility
- Carrots,potatoes,elongated products
- Cutting head size
- 3" (76.5 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm)
- Types of cuts
- Square,rectangular strips,slab,bi-slab,cross slab,segment cuts
- Design
- Unique blade design to reduce feathering
- Size Options
- 3" or 4" Velocicut Head