Other times you can have assembly machines that need a lot of items, which you either bring with bots through requester chests (that also need to be filled), or have a long line of items that aren't inserted fast enough by your inserters.
The solution I have is a belt funnel. It's a very simple 1 by 1 tile that simply takes the items on the belts and immediately puts them into the container adjacent to it. Be it a chest, an assembly machine or anything else.
Silly mockup picture:
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Obviously this would be a very late-game item.
I am in fact quite sure that this could easily be made by creating a new inserter, making it super quick and hiding the arms. Perhaps someone has already done this in a mod?
I hadn't found anything like this by using search and searching manually, my apologies if it has been thought of before.
Do let me know what you think about it, if you can think of improvements, and if you would use it in any of your complex builds.
