摘要 |
Apparatus to move automatically and in a continuous sequence a plurality of crates in succession, preferably of orthi -cultural products, and vertically laid one on the other so as to form a related stack, able of carrying out the transfer of a first stack to a first loading station, of opening the related crates and of forming a first stack of opened crates; it comprises a first loading conveyor provided with a first loading end, first support means adjacent to said first end and supporting a pallet on which a stack of closed crates is deposed, a first pushing means, placed externally with respect to the vertical projection of said first support means and at a level slightly higher than the level of said first conveyor, in order to transfer, with a translatory and orderly motion, one or more stacks from the pallet to the first loading end. The apparatus is basically able of dealing with the successive stacks of opened crates, produced and available, so as to load, onto a different succession of pallets, a plurality of stacks placed side by side and on the same pallet. |