Apparatus for the track individual provision of sheet material for placing underneath

An underlay apparatus for placing material under products fed along two or more tracks, comprising:

• a product feed configured to feed the products along the two or more tracks to a sheet feed region;
• a product outfeed configured to transfer the products away from the sheet feed region on the two or more tracks;
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• an underlay unit, comprising:
• an ejection device configured to discharge sheet material from at least one material web onto each of the two or more tracks of the product outfeed, the ejection device comprising:
• an ejection roller jointly associated with the two or more tracks;
• an ejection counter-unit;
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• an ejection gap formed by the ejection roller and the ejection counter-unit.

A modular underlay apparatus for placing sheet material beneath products of a food processing line, comprising:

• a draw-in module configured to draw in sheet material for each track of the food processing line;
• a separation module configured to separate the sheet material into individual sheets;
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• an ejection module configured to eject each of the individual sheets onto a respective track of a product outfeed;
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• an output unit housing arranged beneath the food processing line and configured to receive each of the draw-in module, the separation module, and the ejection module.