METHOD OF AND AN APPARATUS FOR STORING BAGGED OR BOXED ARTICLES IN PACKING BOXES

摘要

The invention provides a method of and an apparatus for storing commodities such as snack food or dry food in a packing box in a manner of vertical packing, said method and apparatus serving as a measure for preventing breakage of the commodities during physical distribution such as transportation and storage. In the method and apparatus, bagged or boxed articles conveyed in succession in a horizontal posture are arranged one by one in a longitudinal direction (vertical direction) at a feed end of an alignment conveyor while being successively changed in a posture to stand vertical. Then a predetermined number of the lined-up articles are pushed together laterally away from the conveyor, and the pushed articles are caught at the front and the rear to be vertically stored in a packing box as they are kept in such a posture.