An apparatus for transferring products, such as fruit, onto, and supplying
the same to, a conveyor, preferably a roller conveyor. The apparatus is
provided with two flat endless conveyor belts positioned obliquely
relative to a vertical plane, continuous in the conveying direction,
functioning as a V-channel. The endless conveyor belts first extend
substantially parallel to the conveyor in the conveying direction,
wherein from a well-defined location, the endless conveyor belts bear off
the conveyor and continue at different angles relative to the conveying
direction, with the conveyor belts diverging mutually. The apparatus
accommodates a stream of food products, such as fruit, with greatly
varying sizes, to be transferred gradually and in the proper sequential
order onto the conveyor, thereby considerably reducing injuries to the
food product during transfer.