Abstract: Bread loaves 12 are fed by spiked conveyor 13 into a slice cutter 14 and then to a pocket 29 on an indexing turret 16, where the slices are impaled on parallel pins 31. When the turret intermittently rotates a pusher 34 strips the slice group from the pins, and they are transferred to a weighing conveyor 17. The output from the latter controls the feed rate to maintain the weight of each slice group at a predetermined value.