Abstract: A gripping device for at least one deformable food product has at least one perforated plate defining at least one receiving surface for the deformable food product, and for each receiving surface, a pair of needles associated with the receiving surface. Each needle of the pair is able to be moved between a retracted position, in which the needle does not pass through the receiving surface, and a deployed position, in which the needle passes through the receiving surface. A facility has the gripped device for producing deformable food products, and a method for moving a deformable food product uses the gripping device.

Abstract: A method and a device are disclosed for conveying products longitudinally respecting a particular longitudinal spacing. Between two conveyor surfaces moving at a particular speed equal to the product of an at least average particular rate of arrival of products by the particular spacing, the products rest on a second conveyor surface moving at a speed that is systematically oscillated around a particular speed at a rate equal to the particular rate. The products can therefore be set or maintained at the particular spacing and if a plurality of rows of products are processed simultaneously they can be set in phase or with a particular phase shift.