Patent ID: 8596446

Claim:
A method for generating formatted total packages comprising a defined number of adjoining equally sized individual pieces of a food product, whereby the individual pieces are transported along conveyor lines laying on conveyor belts, characterized in that the individual pieces on a first conveyor belt (B 1 ) are supplied at a mutual distance and at a speed V B1 to a second conveyor belt (B 2 , B 3 ), which forms a buffer line and which adjoins the first conveyor belt (B 1 ) in a transport direction, such that the individual pieces at a first end of the second conveyor belt (B 2 , B 3 ) are accumulated to form a buffer stack of adjoining individual pieces, whereby the buffer stack is transported on the second conveyor belt (B 2 , B 3 ) at a speed V B2 which is lower than speed V B1 , and at a second end of the second conveyor belt (B 2 , B 3 ), a plurality of total packages are separated from the buffer stack by means of a discharging conveyor belt (B 4 ) which, during the separating of said plurality of total packages from the buffer stack, has a speed V B4 that is higher than the speed V B2 , and transitions are located between the conveyor belts (B 1 , B 2 , B 3 , B 4 ), which, are displaced in relation to the transport direction during the accumulating of the individual pieces to form the buffer stack, the separating of the total packages from the buffer stack, or both.