Transfer system of food products by means of pickers

A transfer system for food products (P) comprising:

• a product conveyor (11);
• a first support conveyor (13) suitable for moving supports (12) in equicurrent with the food products (P);
• a plurality of pickers (R1, R2, R3) situated in series along the run of said products (P) and supports (12) and suitable for individually collecting said products (P) from the product conveyor (11) to arrange them on the supports (12) translated from the first support conveyor (13);
• presence and position surveying means (C1, C2) of which at least one is situated upstream with respect to the food products (P), of a first picker (R1) of said plurality of pickers (R1, R2, R3) suitable for detecting the presence, number, position and orientation of each product (P);
• an electronic image identification and data processing system (34), in addition to calculation of potentiality, flow rate and distribution of the charge between the pickers (R1, R2, R3), as well as the control of the speed of the conveyors, to transfer data and instructions to the pickers, characterized in that said transfer system also comprises a second parallel support conveyor (14), transferring the supports (12) in equicurrent with respect to the food products (P), assisted by a specific finishing picker (R4), situated downstream of said plurality of pickers (R1, R2, R3), in turn equipped with presence and position surveying means (C3), also connected to said electronic image identification and data processing system (34), wherein said pickers (R1–R4) are of the 4-axis type, and are equipped with rotatable handlers (22), with an individual grip of the sucker type, with an anti-crash system and with a suction circuit supported by a supplementary sleeve filter for air purification, comprising a suction group for each handler (22), equipped with a pump, special Vortex type inversion valves, and sucker type water washing tubes having water flowing counter-currently with respect to the suction direction.