Method for cleaning installation processing foodstuffs

Abstract

A cleaning system for an installation processing foodstuffs, with a guide path and with a robot arm which is displaceable along the guide path and on which at least one nozzle for discharging a cleaning agent onto the installation, is attached in a manner such that the at least one nozzle may be moved in a targeted manner to individual points of the installation for its cleaning, by way of displacing and moving the robot arm.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A cleaning method for cleaning an installation processing foodstuffs, with which a nozzle for discharging a cleaning agent is moved by way of a robot arm ( 16 ) displaceable on a guide path ( 4 ), to the points of the installation ( 2 ) to be cleaned, and there the cleaning agent is discharged out of the nozzle onto the installation ( 2 ). 
     
     
         2 . A cleaning method according to  claim 1 , with which, for cleaning the robot arm ( 16 ), this is displaced along the guide path ( 4 ) into a cleaning station, in which it is cleaned from the outside by way of cleaning nozzles. 
     
     
         3 . A cleaning method according to  claim 1 , with which the robot arm ( 16 ) is applied for handling tasks, processing tasks or monitoring tasks in the installation, in the times in which it does not carry out cleaning tasks.