System for processing food portions and method of operating such a system

Abstract

System for processing food portions that includes at least one processing station arranged upstream for producing and/or processing the food portions, at least one further processing station arranged downstream for further processing the food portions, at least one transfer station arranged downstream of the processing station and upstream of the further processing station, the at least one transfer station having at least one first automatic transfer unit for transferring the food portions from the processing station to the further processing station and having a first conveyor belt for conveying the food portions along a first conveying direction and at least one buffer station arranged downstream of the transfer station for the intermediate storage of the food portions with a second conveyor belt for conveying and intermediate storage of the food portions, the first conveyor belt and the second conveyor belt are designed as retracting belts.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.