| 摘要 |
Apparatus for placing objects, such as sugar cubes, in a plurality of layers into a container 3 comprises one or more pairs of guide members 22b arranged above the conveyor 7 and corresponding in number to the number of rows of objects, means such as fluid pressure operated piston and cylinder units for reciprocatably driving the guide members in a direction transverse to the conveyor feed path, and one or more grippers 72 arranged at or adjacent to the end of the conveyor for picking up a closely packed group of objects supplied by the conveyor (7) and for transferring this group of objects to the container 3. The container 3 is positioned on a conveyor belt support 35 which is lowered, as the number of layers in the container increases, by a cam disc 46 connected to the drive 48-52, 63 for the gripper. <IMAGE> |
