摘要:
The apparatus operates at a loading station having loading means (25) for inserting, in succession, the products in a hung condition to a support rod (R1) supported in the loading station. The apparatus comprises: constraining means (20) for constraining a support rod at a time in a fixed position, with a horizontal axis (AC) of loading the products on the rod, in the loading station; a transfer carriage (31) mobile between a first and a second operating position, respectively distal and proximal with respect to the distancing means, which bears: first handling arms (41), parallel to one another, which exhibit first profiled seatings (43) aligned to one another defining a first support position for a support rod, having an axis parallel to the loading axis (AC); second handling arms (42) parallel to one another, which exhibit second profiled seatings (44) aligned to one another, which define a second support position for a support rod, having a parallel axis to the loading axis (AC), the first and second support seatings being in a distal position and respectively in a proximal position with respect to the distancing means (60); the handling arms (41, 42) being constrained to the transfer carriage (31) with rotatability about at least a first axis (A1), parallel to the loading axis (AC); means (51, 52) for rotating the handling arms (41, 42); a collecting device (70), able to collect a support rod at a time from a rod tank (71), by means of a pair of support elements (76); a command system which: moves the collecting device (70) in combination with the movement of the handling arms (41, 42) such that a support rod, collected from the tank (71), is transferred into the first support seatings (43) of the first arms (41); rotates the handling arms (41, 42) such that a support rod (R1) constrained in the loading station (SC) is arranged in the second seatings (44) for supporting the arms; displaces the transfer carriage (31) from the distal operating position to the proximal position, after this displacement transferring a support rod located in the second support seatings on the distancing means (60); displaces the transfer carriage (31) such as to transfer a support rod located in the first support seatings (43) into the loading position of the loading station.