Urschel Affinity Integra-D cheese dicer

Urschel has released the Affinity Integra-D cheese dicer with USDA dairy division acceptance.

Designed to provide precision cutting and a turnkey upgrade for processors with Urschel RA series machines, the Integra-D has all of the advantages of the company’s large Affinity cheese dicer but in a scaled-down footprint.

With pushbutton operation and powered by a 7.5 kW motor, the machine is designed with the cutting zone completely separate from the mechanical zone. Hinged access panels ease maintenance and part changeovers. Other features of the heavy-duty dicer include good sanitation and quick part changeovers.

The three-dimensional dicer accepts products up to 114 mm. Product is delivered to a feed hopper and enters a rotating impeller. Centrifugal force holds the product against the inside of the case. Impeller paddles carry the product past the slicing knife. An adjustable slice gate at the top of the case determines the slice thickness.

Slices pass between the rotating feed drum and feed spindle and then enter the circular knives where they are cut into strips. The strips pass directly into the crosscut knives where the final cut is made to create a precision dice. The stripper plate removes product from the spaces between the circular knives and acts as a shear edge for the crosscut knives. Strip cuts can be produced by removing the crosscut knife spindle.