Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for taking containers out of a pile, comprising a magazine formed of a row of articulated parallelograms and, under this magazine, two superimposed rows of deformable parallelograms which are actuatable independently from each other to take the containers out of the pile and which can conform to any container shape or dimension.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a machine for the automatic packaging of goblets, having a number of stations which permit the goblets to be deposited on a conveyor, to be filled, to be obturated and to be evacuated, these stations being each carried by at least one modular frame, all the modular frames being crossed by the conveyor and being likely to be connected to one another by mechanical connecting, each modular frame having mechanical, electrical and pneumatic control associated to each frame to permit the station it carries to work in an autonomous and separate way, these control being possibly connected to and driven by a multiprocessor solid with at least one of the modular frames.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an apparatus for automatically eliminating a group of articles to be treated of which at least one is missing or defective in this group, this apparatus comprising essentially a detecting cell located above the articles or containers transported by a conveyor, a magazine for storing these containers located near the detecting cell, and pushers arranged vertically under the magazine and under the containers transported by the conveyor.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a device for gripping and holding back containers having two casings solid respectively with two chains, each of these casings including two racks engaging with a pinion which actuates in a synchronized manner both racks, each of which is coupled to one end of two transversal plates with respect to the chains, which plates can be simultaneously spaced apart and brought together to adapt to containers of any shape and dimension.

Abstract: This invention relates to an arrangement for continuous automatic filling and closing of successive encased groups of containers wherein use is made of a dispensing unit connected to a closing unit which is pivotally rotated so as to be substituted for the dispensing unit after the filling of the group of containers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for continuously distributing parallelepipedic loads which comprises a conveyor constituted by power-driven rollers whose axis is perpendicular to that of the push-bars of an endless chain conveyor arranged above the rollers, whereas an element for guiding the objects driven simultaneously by the rollers and the push-bars is arranged obliquely between the roller conveyor and the push-bar conveyor, the push-bars being provided with stops for transverse positioning of the objects on the roller conveyor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a variable-configuration head for seizing and handling objects, which head comprises a frame from which are suspended supports for seizing members through the medium of three links swivelled both to the supports and to the frame, the supports being geometrically equivalent to two identical articulated parallelograms having opposite angles at one common vertex, so as to allow the supports to be joined together transversely or longitudinally to modify the configuration of the group of objects held by the seizing members.