Conveyor device for conveying food products

A conveyor device for conveying food products in stacks or interleaved units made of a plurality of slices of cheese or meat products, the conveyor device comprising:

• a plurality of parallel conveyor tracks having an input side and an output side, wherein the conveyor device formats the food products in a specific product format on the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks, and wherein the conveyor device fills a product gap on one of the plurality of parallel conveyor tracks incoming on the input side with a food product so that on the output side all parallel conveyor tracks are supplied with the food products;
• at least one product sensor configured to detect a supply of food product on each conveyor track incoming on the input side;
• wherein, when an even number of product gaps exist on one of the conveyor tracks, the conveyor device fills the product gaps with a corresponding number of food products from another one of the conveyor tracks that does not have any product gaps such that at least one of the food products are transferred from the conveyor track that does not have any product gaps to the conveyor track that has the product gaps;
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• wherein when there is an odd number of product gaps on one of the conveyor tracks, the conveyor device also fills the product gaps with food products from a product buffer such that at least one of the food products is transferred from the product buffer to the conveyor track that has the product gap.