Method and facility for filling traveling egg trays

A system for filling traveling egg trays, comprising a stabilization unit configured to transfer eggs taken from elsewhere to be deposited in locations of each egg tray in progress detected as being empty, the stabilization unit having an egg reservoir of available eggs in which receiving cells are capable of receiving eggs and are individually movable within the egg reservoir under the action of automatically controlled driving means determining the distribution of the receiving cells bearing available eggs in a transfer zone of the egg reservoir, the stabilization unit further having transfer means for transferring eggs removed from said transfer zone of said egg reservoir to an egg tray undergoing filling and depositing them in egg receiving locations of said egg tray, and the stabilization unit further having a device for automatically controlling said driving means of the receiving cells to ensure the distribution of receiving cells bearing available eggs in said transfer zone in a reservoir configuration established automatically based on a filling state of the egg tray in progress defining its configuration in terms of distribution of locations without eggs so as to have each receiving cell in the transfer zone containing an available egg correspond to an empty location in said egg tray;

• wherein the receiving cells of the egg reservoir are grouped together in rows separate from one another and each formed by receiving cells individually movable along the corresponding row under the effect of said driving means associated with the egg reservoir;
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• further wherein said drive means include a comb with retractable teeth that is mounted movably along said rows of receiving cells from one of their ends to the other across all of said rows, the teeth of the comb each being assigned to one of said rows of cells and individually controlled between an active position driving a receiving cell of the corresponding row with which it engages and an inactive position where it withdraws away from the receiving cells while the comb travels over all of the rows of receiving cells.