ZIG-ZAG PACKAGING OF LINKED ARTICLES

摘要

Packaging products, such as sausages, which are delivered as a group of elongated articles connected end to end including the steps of separating the groups into at least two adjacent paths (110, 111, 112) along which they can be conveyed at their delivery speed, feeding the groups to at least a second path (131) along which they can be conveyed which is travelling at a speed less than that of the first part with the articles of the group being alternatively displaced from direction of the first path as they enter the second path so the articles are forced to adopt a zig-zag formation (132) because of the speed differential of the two paths.