Continuously moving handling device for packing machines in particular for sweets and similar products

A handling device for packing machines, in particular for sweets and like products of the type comprising one or more continuously moving rotary wheels, characterised in that it comprises a support body having an elongate polygonal prismatic shape which may be associated in predetermined numbers at a uniform spacing with the said wheel(s) moving continuously in a radially slideable manner, a headed body mounted in an articulated manner to oscillate at the radially outermost end of the said support body about an axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the said rotary wheel(s), operating means having gripper take up elements and hoe-shaped folding devices supported by the said headed body in an articulated manner to oscillate about axes parallel to the axis of oscillation of the oscillating headed body and parallel to the axis of rotation of the said rotary wheel(s), and control means for moving in a radial direction the support body with the associated oscillating headed body supporting the oscillating operating means with gripper take up elements and hoe-shaped folding devices and for causing the oscillation of the oscillating headed body and independently the oscillation of the oscillating operating means having gripper take up elements and hoe-shaped folding devices in order to cause these latter means to perform a movement of constant orientation along and relative to a path for continuous conveyor movement having a mixed course with sections which are rectilinear, spiral, circular, and curved in any way which follow one another in an intercalated manner and at different speeds in accordance with the type of operation to be carried out on the product thereby cancelling out completely any relative speed with respect to the latter irrespective of its conveyor speed type.