Apparatus for pasting inserts into publications

Apparatus for pasting inserts (13) into publications (11) which are being advanced by means of a conveyor (10) for publications in a straddling position, comprising a magazine (12) for the inserts, a picker (14) for pulling out the inserts one at a time from the magazine, and transfer means (15) for transporting an insert which has been pulled out from the picker to a publication on the conveyor, characterized in that the transfer means (15) comprises a transfer member which can be continuously driven in a path about a substantially vertical axis and being formed in the shape of a truncated cone of declining diameter having a discontinuous outer periphery including two symmetric wings projecting radially from said vertical axis, the outer peripheral edges thereof forming a quadrilateral with two edges converging, and has circumferentially located suction nozzles (50) and is arranged to pass during the movement thereof tangentially past the picker and the conveyor, respectively, at diametrically opposite side of the axis, the suction nozzles being controlled to remove an insert from the picker and deliver the insert to a publication on the conveyor.