Abstract: An apparatus for the sequential supply of sweets or like articles to a continuously moving packing machine or apparatus of the type designed to convey the articles to be wrapped along a wrapping path or line having a mixed course comprising at least one horizontal rectilinear line. This supply apparatus is of the type having a construction with superimposed wheels which rotate coaxially with a continuous movement about a vertical axis, comprising a first upper plate wheel designed to receive the articles in bulk and to supply them in single file via a spiral duct to the periphery of a second lower disc wheel provided peripherally with a plurality of apertures which are equally spaced, below each of which are provided means having gripper members for the take up of the articles associated with a lower third wheel such that they are radially slidable and may be oriented about a respective vertical axis.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously wrapping sweets or like products in a so-called double twist wrapper, comprising a rotary wheel which moves continuously about a horizontal axis, a plurality of handling devices having oscillating heads mounted to be radially slidable at a uniform spacing on the rotary wheel, with the axis of oscillation of the said oscillating head parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotary wheel, and means having gripper take up elements and hoe-shaped folding elements supported by the said head so as to oscillate about respective axes parallel to the axis of oscillation of the oscillating head and the axis of rotation of the said rotary wheel. The said handling device support wheel has provided coaxially rotatable therewith and on its opposite sides two wheels supporting a corresponding respective plurality of twisting devices in mirror symmetry on the opposite sides of the above-mentioned means having gripper take up elements and folding elements supported by the said head.

Abstract: A handling device for packing machines in particular for sweets and similar products, having one or more continuously moving rotary wheels, comprising a support body which may be associated in a radially slideable manner with the said wheel or wheels having a predetermined number, a body having a head mounted to oscillate at the radially outermost end of the said support body about an axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the said wheel(s), operating means supported by the said headed body so as to be able to oscillate about axes parallel to the axis of rotation of the said oscillating headed body, and control means causing the said support body to slide radially with respect to the rotary wheel which supports it and causing the said head and the said operating means to oscillate so as to bring these latter means to operate with a continuous movement along a path having sections with a mixed course and to maintain them in constant orientation along and relative to these path sections.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for the handling of products or articles for the treatment of same by, for example, the carrying out upon them of specific operations of machining or processing, assembling, packing and the like through operative structure carried in continuous movement along a path of mixed form comprising rectilinear, spiral, circular and arcuate portions of whatever type, following one another and intercalated and at different velocities according to the type of operation to be carried out on the product.