A) to the next most recent model (Mod.H) to the flywheel models ( Mod.C – Mod D – Mod.L) and thrust-operated models (Mod.B – to the most recent Models B1-B2-BB1-BB2) from the semi-electric to the electric ones, to those equipped with a slice-separator device, but in any case they always turned out to be the best slicers in the world despite the many attempts to imitate the product made by all the other factories. The slicers production varied in size and mode of operation: in a continuous evolution, it went from the primitive lever slicers (mod. of Toronto known as Berkel Products Company LTD in 1929, Canada – and throughout the years factories were opened in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, etc.etc. Slicing Machine, initially in Chicago, Illinois, then in 1916 in La Porte, Indiana – In the headquarters of the Hobart Manufacturing Co.
in Zurich in 1909 – in 1904 at the headquarters of the U.S. Sud Americana Van Berkel in Buenos Aires in 1905 – Berkel A.G. Ltd in London in 1933 – SA Francaise des brevets van Berkel in Paris in 1911, then later also in Lyon- Van Berkels Patent A/S in Copenhagen in 1909 – A/S Van Berkels patent in Oslo – A/B Van Berkels Patent in Stockholm in 1911 – Commercial Berkel SA in Barcelona in 1919 – S.A. Ltd in Ponders End, Middlesex in 1918 – The Berkel Auto Scale Co. The Van Berkel’s Patent history continued with a succession of new factories being opened around the world, from SA des Brevets van Berkel in Brussels – the Auto Scale and Slicing Machine in Milan – Berkel and Parnalls Slicing Machine Mfg. During the 1914-1918 war the need for airplanes arose, therefore in 1917 the first patented airplane was produced in the Keileweg factory where monoplanes and biplanes were produced. Production was not limited only to slicers for meat and cured meat but it was extended to bread-slicers and scales as from 1918, with the first model, and then Model A followed in 1919. Already in the first year, 76 Berkel Model A machines were produced, three of the Berkel model B and five special Berkel model C machines. Reuchlin as founder, but not as director. His idea was accepted and so, on 12 October 1898, the company “Van Berkel’s Patent” was born. Boldly, he introduced himself to the owner and proposed him to turn the printing shop into a laboratory for the production of his machines. He thus found out a print shop which was on the verge of bankruptcy. Van Berkel, however, did not have the means necessary to bring his machine into production.
The first slicer was born, called Berkel Model A. Finally, after painstaking efforts, he put together two ideas, simple but ingenious: a concave blade, which precisely reproduces the hand / knife movement and a moving plate that slides towards the blade. He experimented for months and often the attempt was about to fail, but in the end his patience was rewarded. One day Berkel had the idea to build a machine that would facilitate the task of cutting the cured meat into thin slices. van Berkel was a butcher who for years sought to combine his job as a butcher and his passion for mechanics. This is the name of the inventor of the best slicers in the world (in the foreground in the picture below) born on in Enschot (Netherlands) and died on in Montreux (Switzerland).
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