Abstract: A station for distributing products to a line for supplying packaging machines or for storage, if necessary, comprises a first conveyor having an end which is driven so as to oscillate between a raised configuration and a lowered, receiving configuration in which it is aligned with the output of a product-conveyor line and is disposed above the center-line of a line perpendicular thereto for supplying a packaging machine, and a first product-transfer unit which is aligned with and below the first conveyor and is driven in an oscillatory manner in order to move its input from a collecting position in which it is aligned with the product-conveyor line while the first conveyor is in the raised configuration, to a discharge position in which it is coplanar with the supply line.

Abstract: Buffer storage unit for accumulating and releasing, in rows which are equidistant or have a programmed timing, products which arrive from a continuous advancement line and are arranged in non-equidistant rows, including a first conveyor belt (2) and a second conveyor belt (3) which are respectively actuated continuously and stepwise, and which have respective active portions (2a,3a) extending horizontally after one another. The belts are closed on themselves in a loop and are wound around respective sets of rollers, and the output roller (5a) of the first belt (2) and the input roller (7a) of the second belt (3) are mounted on a first slider (8) which is horizontally slidingly guided and which is associated with actuation elements which are controlled by sensors (16,17) which detect the presence of the products.