Patent ID: 7195114

Claim:
An apparatus for transferring products, in particular eggs, comprising at least one row of transferring units positioned at at least one height under a conveying direction of an endless sorting conveyor, wherein products which are discharged in a well-defined manner from the conveyor direction into the at least one row of transferring units are received by the at least one row of transferring units, and are subsequently delivered downwardly to a packaging direction of a packaging device thereunder, the at least one row of transferring units including at least a first and a second part which can move away from each other and back again, from a receiving position for taking up such a product to a discharge position for delivering the product downwardly through the at least one row, and a frame which is stationary relative to the conveying and packaging directions and in which said at least one row of transferring units is selectively arranged to be interlocked with the frame or removable from the frame.