Patent ID: 7784600

Claim:
A deflection station for the deflection of at least one stream of food product slices produced by means of a cutting machine, comprising: a rotatable disk; at least one incoming conveyor for an incoming product stream running-in; at least one outgoing conveyor for an outgoing product stream outgoing in a different direction to the incoming product stream, at least one of the incoming and outgoing conveyors converging in a longitudinal direction towards the rotatable disk into a tip; and the disk being rotatably movable between a discharge end of the incoming conveyor and a receiving end of the outgoing conveyor and defining a support surface that always faces in at least approximately the same direction and that is formed by a plurality of spaced-apart, alternating circular ridges and flutes, and wherein the receiving end of the at least one outgoing conveyor and incoming conveyor is made in fork-like form and meshes with the flutes and ridges of the rotatable disk.