Abstract: A product carrier for carrying products includes a suspending member for suspending said products, a transporting device for transporting the suspending member in a direction of travel, a protecting plate associated with the suspending member for protecting the products, and a spacer element projecting from the protecting plate for maintaining the protecting plate in a spaced relation from an adjacent product carrier so as to protect the product from the adjacent product carrier.

Abstract: Arrangement for production of sections cut out from a material web (18), such as sections for articles of clothing. It comprises a carrier element (19) with a deposit surface (17) for the material web (18), an automatic cutter (16) which is displaceable over the cutting member (70; 77) is supported by the slide arrangement. The cutting member is moved by means of a computer program along the intended contours of the sections which are to be cut out. The carrier element (19), which can be a conveyor belt, is of a material which is elastically compressible. The material, by virtue of its elasticity, tends to form a main plane in which, as a result of the compressibility of the material, depressions can be formed by exerting a force on the material, for example by pressing-down of bottom parts of the cutting and picking members.