Device for the reception and the transfer to a successive conveyor of substantially parallelepiped products or stacks of products

摘要

At least one compartment capable of movement in a direction substantially perpendicular to that in which the products are fed to the device. Each compartment has a size defined by opposing vertical wall members capable of relative movement therebetween for adjusting the size of the compartment. A drive system first moves the wall members relative to one another to adjust the size of the compartment(s) and then moves the wall members at a substantially equal velocity in the direction substantially perpendicular to that in which the products are fed to the device. A central control unit receives a size value of the product and controls the drive system to move the wall members relative to one another to adjust the size of the compartment to the product size value and then move the wall members at substantially equal velocity to move the compartment in the direction substantially perpendicular to that in which the products are fed to the device.