Abstract:
A device is disclosed which grips and transfers articles from one conveyor to another conveyor or to containers on another conveyor. The incoming conveyed articles are sensed and the drive mechanism of an overhead vacuum conveyor which grips and transfers the articles is adjusted automatically to align a gripper with an article.
Abstract:
A plant providing rolling-up of a portion of baked paste between a roller-up mandrel and a belt applied on about half the surface of the roller-up mandrel, and transfer of the so formed rolled-up biscuit, the latter being of a double thickness on a portion of its surface, this paste for biscuit formation being presented by a deflector plate into the space existing between said roller-up mandrel and said belt, this plant being comprised of an intermittently rotating barrel which is equipped with a number of roller-up mandrels freely rotating on said barrel, so that axes of roller-up mandrels are parallel to the axis of said barrel, an oscillating arm alternately moved in a plane perpendicular to the barrel axis, said oscillating arm being provided with two guide cylinders on which said belt moves, said belt being arranged in such a manner on said oscillating arm, with respect to a roller-up mandrel, in the rest position of the barrel, so as to allow reception of a rolled-up paste portion from said deflector plate, that this belt covers said roller-up mandrel on at least 120.degree. of its surface.