Compact orienting and transferring device for unitary elongated food products comprising: an extractor device including an extraction path (31, 32, 33), defined on a first conveyor, with an intake end for receiving unitary elongated food products and an out-take end for delivering said unitary elongated food products, the extractor device further comprises a circular wheel, rotative around a horizontal axis, defining a wheel periphery and including a circular groove on said wheel periphery defined between two lateral annular walls facing each other and one bottom wall comprised between said two lateral annular walls and facing a circular groove entrance which surrounds the circular wheel; wherein the first conveyor is a conveyor belt wider than the circular groove entrance defined between the two lateral annular walls of the circular groove, and a circular portion of the first conveyor is directly supported on the wheel periphery covering the circular groove entrance on a portion of that wheel periphery, defining a circular portion of the extraction path (31, 32, 33) within the circular groove between the bottom wall of the circular groove and the portion of the first conveyor covering said circular groove; characterized in that the device further comprises: a circular conveyor, rotative in a substantially horizontal plane, defining a conveyor periphery surrounded by a limitative wall, the limitative wall including an extraction opening connected to the intake-end of the extraction path (31, 32, 33) adjacent to the conveyor periphery; and wherein the circular wheel and the circular conveyor are coordinated through a control unit to produce the rotative movement of the circular periphery of the circular wheel at a higher velocity than the rotative movement of the conveyor periphery of the circular conveyor. an extractor device including an extraction path (31, 32, 33), defined on a first conveyor, with an intake end for receiving unitary elongated food products and an out-take end for delivering said unitary elongated food products, the extractor device further comprises a circular wheel, rotative around a horizontal axis, defining a wheel periphery and including a circular groove on said wheel periphery defined between two lateral annular walls facing each other and one bottom wall comprised between said two lateral annular walls and facing a circular groove entrance which surrounds the circular wheel; wherein the first conveyor is a conveyor belt wider than the circular groove entrance defined between the two lateral annular walls of the circular groove, and a circular portion of the first conveyor is directly supported on the wheel periphery covering the circular groove entrance on a portion of that wheel periphery, defining a circular portion of the extraction path (31, 32, 33) within the circular groove between the bottom wall of the circular groove and the portion of the first conveyor covering said circular groove; characterized in that the device further comprises: a circular conveyor, rotative in a substantially horizontal plane, defining a conveyor periphery surrounded by a limitative wall, the limitative wall including an extraction opening connected to the intake-end of the extraction path (31, 32, 33) adjacent to the conveyor periphery; and wherein the circular wheel and the circular conveyor are coordinated through a control unit to produce the rotative movement of the circular periphery of the circular wheel at a higher velocity than the rotative movement of the conveyor periphery of the circular conveyor. a circular conveyor, rotative in a substantially horizontal plane, defining a conveyor periphery surrounded by a limitative wall, the limitative wall including an extraction opening connected to the intake-end of the extraction path (31, 32, 33) adjacent to the conveyor periphery; and wherein the circular wheel and the circular conveyor are coordinated through a control unit to produce the rotative movement of the circular periphery of the circular wheel at a higher velocity than the rotative movement of the conveyor periphery of the circular conveyor.