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AssigneeRISVIN - Ricerche e Sviluppo Industriale - S.r.l.
InventorAlderino Zamboni
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An apparatus for the sequential supply of sweets or like articles to a continuously moving packing machine or apparatus of the type designed to convey the articles to be wrapped along a wrapping path or line having a mixed course comprising at least one horizontal rectilinear line. This supply apparatus is of the type having a construction with superimposed wheels which rotate coaxially with a continuous movement about a vertical axis, comprising a first upper plate wheel designed to receive the articles in bulk and to supply them in single file via a spiral duct to the periphery of a second lower disc wheel provided peripherally with a plurality of apertures which are equally spaced, below each of which are provided means having gripper members for the take up of the articles associated with a lower third wheel such that they are radially slidable and may be oriented about a respective vertical axis. In this way, the articles are spaced by the peripheral path below and along the straight horizontal path of the wrapping line of the wrapping machine and are constantly oriented with respect to this rectilinear horizontal line for their transfer to the wrapping machine.
Apparatus for the sequential supply of sweets or like products to a continuously moving wrapping apparatus or machine of the type designed to convey the sweets to be wrapped along a wrapping path or line having a mixed course and comprising at least one rectilinear horizontal section, the said apparatus being of the type having a superimposed wheel construction, which wheels rotate coaxially with a continuous movement about a vertical axis, and include a first upper plate wheel designed to receive products in bulk and to supply them in single file via a duct having a spiral course to the periphery of a second lower disc wheel, characterised in that the said second wheel is provided peripherally with a plurality or peripherally open equally spaced apertures and that below each of these apertures there are provided take-up member means associated with a third lower wheel in a radially slidable manner so that they may be orientated about a respective vertical axis in order to receive individual products and convey them from the peripheral path of the said second and third wheels along a rectilinear horizontal path section parallel to and below the said rectilinear horizontal path section of the wrapping line of the wrapping machine with a constant orientation with respect to the rectilinear horizontal path sections in order to supply them to the continuously moving wrapping apparatus or machine.
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