ARTICLE GROUP-SEGREGATING MECHANISM

摘要

Articles from which a group is to be segregated are fed in two parallel rows alongside each other until such rows are stopped by clamping means actuated by engagement of the end of the group to be segregated with a stop. Adjacent arms of counterrotating rotors lift the group of articles to be segregated from the infeed path to a parallel discharge path along which a pusher moves to push the segregated article group to a bagging station for bagging. Upon transfer of the segregated article group from the feed path to the discharge path the clamping means are released so that feed of articles from the feed section to the segregating section is resumed.