Gripper for a handling device

A gripper for a handling device arranged for forming slugs of flat baked products, comprising a retaining space for holding slugs of flat baked products wherein said flat baked products are infeed by loading said flat baked products individually from a conveyor means at an input of said handling device, and outfeed by unloading said slugs into a conveyor means of a packing device at an output of said handling device, wherein said slugs are defined as rolls of on-edge oriented flat baked products, said gripper comprising:

• a longitudinal retainer arranged for individually loading said flat baked products and comprising elongated wall elements extending along a longitudinal direction (L) of said gripper for enclosing said retainer forming a retainer space for retaining said flat baked products;
• a loading element, arranged for displacement of at least a contact surface thereof which is located adjacent a segment of the circumference of a loaded flat baked product near a free end of said retaining space;
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• wherein said gripper is arranged for displacement of said contact surface of said loading element enabling individually loading said flat baked products for forming said slugs in said retainer space, and wherein said gripper is further arranged for rotating said longitudinal retainer over a rotation-axis (R) in a plane parallel to a supporting surface of said conveyor means at said input for bringing said slugs from a vertical orientation (I) into a horizontal orientation (II), and wherein at least one of said elongated wall elements is arranged for displacement thereof for unloading said horizontally oriented slugs into said conveyor means of said packing device.