Providing a cutting area with web-like interleaver material

An apparatus for a single-track or multitrack slicing of food products which supplies products to be sliced on one track or on multiple tracks to a cutting region in which a cutting blade moves in a rotating and/or revolving manner to cut the supplied products into slices;

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• having an apparatus for a single-track or multitrack provision of web-like interleaved sheet material at a cutting region in which products supplied on one track or on multiple tracks are cut into slices and interleaved sheets are introduced which are cut off from the provided interleaved sheet material in the cutting region, the apparatus comprising an output device which is configured to eject at least one material web into an ejection region,
• the output device comprising at least one driven feed roll and at least one counter-unit which defines a feed gap with the at least one driven feed roll for the material web,
• the output device configured to generate a compressed air flow to influence the ejected material web and comprising at least one outlet opening for the compressed air flow to pass out,
• the at least one outlet opening connected to a compressed air source via a supply line,
• the supply line provided with a controllable valve,
• wherein an internal or external control device is provided to control the controllable valve, wherein the strength of the air flow released through the at least one opening is variable in time by controlling the controllable valve accordingly.