Loading apparatus

Slicing apparatus for slicing food products into slices, the slicing apparatus comprising:

• a feeding unit configured to feed products along a feeding direction into a cutting region in which a blade for slicing the products into slices is arranged;
• and
• a loading apparatus for loading the food products at least onto or into the slicing apparatus,
• the loading apparatus comprising at least one magazine unit,
• the at least one magazine unit including a conveying means that endlessly circulates along a running direction,
• wherein the conveying means is configured to lift the products to a transferring height at which the products can be transferred along a transferring direction to the feeding unit,
• wherein the conveying means includes several product support surfaces, the product support surfaces being oriented essentially perpendicular to the running direction and positioned subsequently along the running direction with a space between each other,
• wherein at least one product is loadable onto a respective product support surface for lifting the product to the transferring height.