Process and a device for conveying articles, particularly for automatic packaging plants

Abstract

A process and device for conveying articles, such as boxes of confectionery products. The articles, which initially advance on a plurality of parallel paths, are firstly ordered into rows such that they slide on a surface of a plate under the action of motor-driven entrainment strips or blades. When they pass onto a conveyor which acts transversely relative to the general direction of advance of the articles on the plate, the rows are made compact and the articles are urged against a side restraint plate. The articles can then be withdrawn from the compact rows in a predetermined number when the rows themselves pass in correspondence with further motor-driven conveyors which act transverse the general entrainment line of the articles. The withdrawal operation can be repeated several times, the rows having been made compact in the interim urging the articles against the side plate again.

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