Patent ID: 7832316

Claim:
An apparatus for the slicing of food products having a product supply system and a cutting station as well as an outflow conveyor disposed downstream of the cutting station for the transporting away of the sliced products, characterized in that the apparatus is equipped at the cutting station with at least two cutter heads, each having a knife, which cutter heads are mounted to a common base construction; wherein the product supply system includes a first and a second product supply unit for at least two products, said product supply units being arranged adjacent to each other and aligned with an associated one of the cutter heads; wherein each cutter head produces a separate product flow, a first conveyor which receives the product flow from one cutter head and a second conveyor receiving the product flow from the other cutter head, said first and second conveyors being independently movable relative to each other, which product flows are conveyed by said first and second conveyors to a common merging location wherein the common merging location is a location where the first conveyor coming from one cutter head and the second conveyor coming from the other cutter head meet in order to form a merged product flow to be conveyed on the outflow conveyor; and a cutter head housing disposed around both of said cutter heads.