Abstract: A gravity dispensing unit for filling containers with powdered material, wherein a vessel for powdered material presents, underneath, at least one dispenser with a central supply conduit in turn presenting a shutter and made of porous material; the supply conduit extending in fluidtight manner through an annular chamber for receiving pressurized fluid, and through an annular intake manifold surrounding the annular chamber and presenting an annular, downward-facing inlet.

Abstract: A method and device for forming groups of flat articles on edge, whereby articles, laid flat, arranged with a first spacing on a conveyor surface, and forming a first succession traveling in a first direction, are picked up one by one to form a second succession wherein the articles are equally spaced with a second spacing; the second succession is fed to a transfer station in which each article lies in a given plane; and the articles are then fed, in a second direction perpendicular to the given plane in the transfer station, to a withdrawal station where they are withdrawn in groups, each consisting of a number of articles on edge, in a third direction crosswise to the second direction.

Abstract: A capping unit for capping containers with respective caps, each presenting a spray head with a ring nut for fitting it to the threaded neck of the container; the capping unit presenting at least one capping head wherein a first gripping device grips a respective spray head, and a second gripping device presents two jaws for gripping the ring nut and rotating it in relation to the first gripping device; each jaw presenting a gripping roller integral with a respective planetary gear of an epicyclic drive wherein each planetary gear is barrel-shaped and presents teeth in turn presenting a convex longitudinal profile and meshing permanently with a straight-toothed outer ring gear regardless of the position of the relative jaw.

Abstract: A wrapping method and machine, particularly for food products such as chocolates and similar, whereby the products are fed in an orderly succession along a first curved path to a pickup station where they are gripped by respective gripping devices moving along a second curved path for feeding the products to a wrapping device; the first and second paths being substantially coplanar and substantially tangent to each other at the pickup station.

Abstract: A wrapping machine wherein a wrapping device is supplied with an orderly succession of products by a transfer device which, at an input station, successively removes the products off a feed device traveling through the input station in a given direction. The transfer device presents at least a gripping device in turn presenting jaws moving in a plane for gripping a respective product at the input station, and which rotates about an axis for selectively positioning the plane of the jaws in a first position substantially parallel and in a second position substantially perpendicular to the traveling direction of the feed device.

Abstract: An operating unit, wherein a feed device with a number of transportation heads for respective products successively feeds the products along a curved path through an operating station where each product is engaged by a tool for performing a given operation on the product. The tool is fitted to a toolholder device by which it is fed through the operating station simultaneously with a respective product and along the same curved path along which the product travels.

Abstract: A capping unit wherein a number of capping heads, movable with a supporting carrousel conveyor about a first axis, are each rotated about a respective second axis by a respective first shaft movable axially on the carrousel conveyor, for moving the respective head to and from a respective container movable with the carrousel conveyor and coaxial with the second axis. Each head provides for closing the respective container with a cap presenting an internally threaded ring nut mounted for rotation on a pump-operated nozzle, and presents a first and second gripping device for respectively gripping the nozzle and the ring nut and controlled by a second shaft movable axially in relation to the first shaft. The first gripping device is angularly fixed in relation to the carrousel conveyor, whereas the second gripping device rotates with the capping head about the second axis.

Abstract: A system whereby products are fed in orderly succession by a feed conveyor to the input conveyor of a machine for packing the products in pillow pack type wrappings; and whereby the products are transferred between the mutually aligned feed and input conveyors by means of at least one transportation head rotatable about its axis and which is moved by a hypocyclic drive along a substantially quadrilateral path, one side of which is aligned with, and extends along facing end portions of, the two conveyors.

Abstract: A device for ordering bulk fed confectionery products, wherein a continuously rotating annular accelerating and transfer element is interposed between the outer periphery of a discontinuously rotating central plate, designed to receive the products in bulk, and an annular conveyor having a number of pockets, each for receiving a respective product.

Abstract: A compacting unit for groups of flat products arranged side by side on edge, wherein the groups are transported on a conveyor, with the products in each group housed axially separate inside a transverse pocket moving with the conveyor, and are successively engaged by a compacting device featuring a pair of opposed compacting arms. Each compacting arm presents an operating end, and is operated cyclically so that, for each cycle, the operating end is aligned with a pocket of a group, travels with and penetrates inside the pocket, and moves along the pocket towards the operating end of the other arm so as to move the products in the respective group transversely into contact with one another.

Abstract: A method and device for aligning flat products whereby the products, substantially aligned in transverse rows on a first conveyor, are fed on the first conveyor through a pickup station where the products in at least a portion of each row are picked up by a suction head traveling, parallel to itself at all times, along a circular path extending partially over the first conveyor; the aspirated products being transferred by the suction head along a portion of its path extending over an arc of 90.degree. and between the pickup station and an unloading station where the aspirated products are unloaded on to a second conveyor perpendicular to the first conveyor.

Abstract: A method and device for transferring products in an equally-spaced manner to a wrapping line, whereby transverse columns of products traveling parallel to their axis on a first conveyor are fed successively in a first direction perpendicular to the axis of the product. Wherein the products, still traveling in the first direction, are compacted and equally spaced, and then fed parallel to themselves along a curved path extending over an arc of 90.degree., and are loaded on to a second conveyor traveling in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and extending parallel to the axis of the products.

Abstract: A unit for transferring food products such as chocolates, whereby a conveyor feeds a compact sequence of mutually contacting products in a given direction to a transfer device by which the products are fed one by one, still in one direction, into respective peripheral seats on a conveyor wheel rotating about an axis perpendicular to the aforementioned direction; the transfer device being defined by a counter-rotating lobed wheel located on either side of the conveyor and defining a movable pocket for conveying each product.

Abstract: A method and device for forming groups of flat products, in particular biscuits, for supply to a wrapping line, whereby the products, on a supporting surface, are withdrawn by a conveyor unit and transferred onto a pocket conveyor in a sequence having a series of gaps between adjacent products. Each pocket on the conveyor being designed to receive a respective group of products, and being defined by two projections, each of which travels in time with a respective gap through a loading station where the products are loaded onto the pocket conveyor.

Abstract: A unit for compacting groups of flat products arranged side by side and on edge, whereby a through conveyor feeds the groups, with the products separated axially, into successive engagement with a compacting device having a number of pairs of compacting elements on either side of the conveyor; the compacting elements in each pair traveling with the conveyor, being positioned facing the opposite ends of a respective group, and being brought together for transversely moving the products in the group into contact with one another.

Abstract: The dosage dispensing device associable with filling machines is provided with at least one lower nozzle which includes a main body, which has a vertical axis, which is hollow and which has an internal diameter which reduces gradually at least proximate to its lower end down to a discharge outlet, and by a stem, which is arranged so as to be coaxially movable inside the main body. The stem defines, at its lower end, a shutter for the discharge outlet, and is provided with longitudinal fins for guiding the stem inside the main body; the shutter is constituted by a solid of revolution which is coaxial to the stem and which has a cross-section which decreases from a median region thereof down to a lower pointed end thereof, and the inner surface of the main body which is proximate to the discharge outlet has a shape which can be sealingly coupled to a lower portion of the shutter.

Abstract: Tubular obtained from a sheet which has, on its inner surface, in contact with a product to be wrapped, two longitudinal bands which are coated by a layer of cold-adhesive; the two longitudinal bands are glued to one another with the interposition of an end portion of a tear-strip, the opposite surfaces whereof are coated by respective layers of cold-adhesive.

Abstract: The apparatus for applying closures to containers having a neck which is inclined with respect to a vertical axis of the containers comprises: a first conveyer and a second conveyer for transferring the containers in succession. A closure application conveyor receives containers from the first conveyor and transfers them to the second conveyer. The closure application conveyor is provided with a plurality of clamps for gripping the containers arriving from the first conveyer, and is provided with a plurality of closure application heads whose respective lines of action are inclined with respect to a vertical axis. Actuation devices are provided which rotate the clamps in both directions about the vertical axes of the related containers in order to align the axes of the necks with the lines of action of the respective closure application heads.

Abstract: The apparatus for applying closures to containers having a mouth which is inclined with respect to an axis of the containers, comprises a first conveyor and a second conveyor which are suitable for transferring in succession containers, which are arranged so that their axes are vertical. A closure application conveyor receives the containers from the first conveyor and transfers them to the second conveyor; the closure application conveyor has a clamp for gripping the containers which can oscillate between two positions, at which the axes of the related containers and, respectively, the axes of the mouths of the containers are arranged substantially vertical. The closure application conveyor has a closure application head for applying the closures to the containers while the axes of the mouths of the containers are arranged vertically.

Abstract: A device for feeding products, e.g. soaps, from a manufacturing machine to a wrapping machine, and comprising a first and second conveyor belt cooperating with each other and powered at different speeds. The first conveyor belt presents a number of equally spaced supporting elements for respective soaps, having respective reaction elements designed to flank a first side of a respective soap. The second conveyor belt presents a number of equally spaced positioning elements, each designed to flank a second side of a respective soap opposite the first side. Each reaction element faces a respective positioning element and defines, with the same, a compartment for receiving a respective soap and the size of which, measured in the traveling direction of the first and second conveyor belt, is greater than that of the soaps at the point wherein the soaps are transferred into the compartments, and is gradually reduced until it substantially equals the size of the soaps at a point downstream from the transfer point.