| 摘要 |
Apparatus for forming stacks of flat objects, such as chocolate bars, which includes a toothed wheel to which juxtaposed objects are fed while traveling on an at least horizontal input path, and between the teeth of which the objects are accommodated and are then moved to the area of a stacking station through rotation of the wheel, with the toothed wheel being composed of two toothed dics spaced apart along the axis of the wheel and each provided with circumferentially spaced teeth defining object retaining pockets between successive teeth, and the apparatus further being provided with a plunger device operatively associated with the wheel for pushing each object arriving at the end of the input path into a respective pocket when such pocket is situated at the top of the wheel and for braking the next following object on the input path to synchronize the introduction of objects with the rotation of the wheel, the wheel being driven in continuous rotation and objects being supplied continuously thereto during operation of the apparatus.
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