Cartoning apparatus

A cartoning apparatus of items comprising:

• a sorting machine, which is configured to transport the items, while sorting the items and arranging the items into clusters, and the clusters of items, along a predetermined first movement direction, along which the sorting machine is disposed from a point of view in plan,
• a die-cut magazine, in which a plurality of die-cuts are stored for packaging the clusters of items,
• wherein the die-cut magazine is provided with a transport arrangement configured to move the die-cuts to a pick-up area of the die-cuts of the die-cut magazine along a second movement direction, and wherein the die-cut magazine is disposed and extends along the second movement direction from a point of view in plan,
• wherein the die-cut magazine is flanked in plan to the sorting machine and is spaced therefrom so that a passage gap is defined between the die-cut magazine and the sorting machine that permits an operator to pass in the passage gap between the die-cut magazine and the sorting machine along an entire length of the die-cut magazine, at least a stretch of the passage gap having a width greater than 50 cm,
• wherein the passage gap widens going from the pick-up area to an end of the die-cut magazine opposite the pick-up and extends along the entire length of the die-cut magazine, from the ground, or from a surface on which a plurality of support feet for the die-cut magazine and the sorting machine rest.