Conveying unit designed and configured for automatically conveying fillet-like meat products, in particular fish fillets, and method relating to same

A conveying unit, designed and configured for automatically conveying fillet-like meat products, comprising:

• a first conveying element rotationally driven by a drive;
• and
• a second conveying element rotationally driven by a drive in transport direction T of the meat products to be conveyed, the second conveying element being downstream of the first conveying element;
• the first and second conveying elements forming a continuous transport path, along which different processing stations may be arranged;
• wherein the first conveying element comprises a double belt with a gap running centrally and parallel to the transport direction;
• and
• the second conveying element comprises a segment chain which is triangular in cross-section.

A method for automatically conveying fillet-like meat products, comprising the steps:

• transporting the meat products by means of a first conveying element along a transport path in a transport direction;
• transferring the meat products to a second conveying element in a transition region;
• and
• transporting the meat products by means of the second conveying element along the transport path in the transport direction;
• wherein the meat products are transported on a double belt with a gap running centrally and parallel to the transport direction as the first conveying element and are taken over in the transition region by a segment chain, which is triangular in cross-section, as the second conveying element, and wherein the meat products are transported onwards by the segment chain.