Compact orienting and transferring device for unitary elongated food products and operating method thereof

Compact orienting and transferring device for unitary elongated food products comprising:

• an extractor device including an extraction path, defined on a first conveyor, with an intake end for receiving unitary elongated food products and an out-take end for delivering the unitary elongated food products,
• the extractor device further comprises a circular wheel, rotative around a horizontal axis, defining a wheel periphery and including a circular groove on the wheel periphery defined between two lateral annular walls facing each other and one bottom wall comprised between the two lateral annular walls and facing a circular groove entrance which surrounds the circular wheel;
• the first conveyor is a conveyor belt wider than the circular groove entrance defined between the two lateral annular walls of the circular groove, and a circular portion of the first conveyor is directly supported on the wheel periphery covering the circular groove entrance on a portion of that wheel periphery, defining a circular portion of the extraction path within the circular groove between the bottom wall of the circular groove and the portion of the first conveyor covering the circular groove;
• a circular conveyor, rotative in a substantially horizontal plane, defining a conveyor periphery surrounded by a limitative wall, the limitative wall including an extraction opening connected to the intake-end of the extraction path adjacent to the conveyor periphery;
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• the circular wheel and the circular conveyor are coordinated through a control unit to produce the rotative movement of the circular periphery of the circular wheel at a higher velocity than the rotative movement of the conveyor periphery of the circular conveyor.