| 摘要 |
<p>A conveying apparatus (4) has a capture region (6) where the sticks (2) of ice-cream bars (1) are raised from their horizontal positions on supply plates (5) into vertically oriented positions and are captured by grippers (7). In a release region (10), the sticks (2) are released to fall lightly onto the strips of 8-lane wrapping machine (11). The grippers (7) are carried by pairs of bars (8,9) extending transversely to the path of a conveyor carrier chain (12). With the gripper bars (8,9) in an adjacent condition, 16 grippers are equally spaced from one another, and are alternately carried by the two different bars (8,9) First, the bars (8,9) are urged transversely apart in the longitudinal direction of the carrier chain (12) and finally displaced longitudinally with respect to each other so that the two sets of grippers (7) are in register with each other and that the original 16 lines of ice-cream bars (2) are halved. <IMAGE> <IMAGE></p> |
