Patent ID: 8647046

Claim:
A device for presenting a product to a manipulator, which manipulator is provided with a plurality of fingers for supporting the product during manipulation of the product and which manipulator is configured to move the fingers to approach the product from two mutually perpendicular horizontal directions, said device comprising a transfer location comprising a plurality of mutually parallel first support elements, each having an elongated horizontal first support edge, and a plurality of second support elements extending parallel to each other and perpendicular to said first support elements, each second support element having an elongated horizontal second support edge, wherein said parallel first support elements and said parallel second support elements respectively extend in said two mutually perpendicular horizontal directions, wherein the first support elements and the second support elements can move vertically up and down relative to each other for assuming a first presentation position in which the first support edges are positioned higher than the second support edges, and a second presentation position in which the second support edges are positioned higher than the first support edges, and wherein spaces extending in one of said two mutually perpendicular horizontal directions are present between the first support elements when the first and second support elements assume the first presentation position, and wherein spaces extending in the other of said two mutually perpendicular horizontal directions are present between the second support elements when the first and second support elements assume the second presentation position, in which spaces the fingers of the manipulator can be inserted for picking up a product.