Fremgangsmåde til håndtering af produkter, især stykker af levnedsmidler

The installation comprises a feed conveyor (2) defining a transport plane for products and an advancing direction, a unit (3) for detecting a position of the products on the transport plane, a support unit (4) for receiving the products, a gripping unit (5) carried by an actuating unit (6) and adapted to ensure the gripping of the products on the transport plane and to ensure the removal of the products on the support unit, and a unit (7) for controlling the actuating unit and the gripping unit from informations provided by the detecting unit. The gripping unit comprises a gripping band. The installation comprises a feed conveyor (2) defining a transport plane for products and an advancing direction, a unit (3) for detecting a position of the products on the transport plane, a support unit (4) for receiving the products, a gripping unit (5) carried by an actuating unit (6) and adapted to ensure the gripping of the products on the transport plane and to ensure the removal of the products on the support unit, and a unit (7) for controlling the actuating unit and the gripping unit from informations provided by the detecting unit. The gripping unit comprises a gripping band that is wound around a front end of a first drum at a first end and a rear end of a second drum at a second end. The drums are associated with a motor controlled by the control unit. The gripping band comprises an upper strand having a top face forming a plane for gripping the products. The actuating unit is adapted to ensure the operation of the gripping unit in a three-dimensional space between a gripping position in which the gripping band is positioned opposite and above the feed conveyor for gripping the products and a release position in which the gripping band is positioned opposite and above the support unit for removing the products. The motor of the gripping unit is adapted to ensure the rotation of the drum associated in two directions to allow the movement of gripping plane of the gripping band in two opposite directions for gripping and removal of the products from the first end of the gripping band. The actuating unit ensures the operation of the gripping unit according to: a lateral horizontal translation axis perpendicularly oriented to the advancing direction of the feed conveyor; an upstream and downstream horizontal translation axis parallely oriented to the advancing direction of the feed conveyor; a vertically oriented translation axis for the vertical displacement of t