BOX FILLER

摘要

An apparatus for filling boxes or crates (200) with packets (100) of packed food, for instance packed meat, more particularly packed, slaughtered poultry, comprising: - a supply conveyor (1) with a conveying unit (11) for supplying such packets one by one, - a transferring unit (2) with a carrier (3), for transferring each successively supplied packet from the supply conveyor, and for downward unloading of said packet into a box or crate, wherein the boxes or crates are filled with patterns of packets, wherein the transferring unit is at least rotatable about a first axis (25); - a packaging conveyor (4) for supplying and placing boxes or crates in a substantially horizontal plane in a conveying direction T; wherein the carrier of the transferring unit comprises an unloading unit (5) which is designed for unloading, in use, a packet in a preselected unloading direction (R), unequal to the vertical.