APPARATUS FOR TRANSPORTING PRODUCTS, PARTICULARLY PACKAGED FOOD PRODUCTS, FROM A PRODUCT LOADING STATION TO A PRODUCT UNLOADING STATION

摘要

In an apparatus (10) for transporting packaged food products from a product loading station (A) to an unloading station (B), series of containers (20) are entrained by a drive arrangement (12) along a closed-loop path and temporarily halted at the loading station (A) and the unloading station (B) for loading the products onto the containers (20) and unloading the products from the containers (20), respectively; each container (20) has a hitch member arranged to rest on the drive arrangement (12) in a freely slidable manner therealong and, disposed in the closed-loop path, there is at least one accelerating device (25) applying a force to each container (20) effective to impose on the container (20) an acceleration with respect to the speed of the drive arrangement (12).