Abstract: A composite magazine for feeding to a filling or packaging machine pre-formed and flattened containers includes a main magazine suitably inclined in which the containers are piled up. The main magazine includes a long upper back portion which can be opened and closed downwardly. Below the main magazine there is provided an ancillary magazine which initially is in a substantially horizontal loading position in order to be easily supplied with a pile of containers on a bottom plane which leaves uncovered lateral portions of the bottom of the pile. When the upper back portion is emptied, the upper back portion is opened and the ancillary magazine is raised to insert the pile of containers in the main magazine. The upper back portion then closes to retain the pile, while the ancillary magazine returns in the low loading.

Abstract: The suction cups (23) for collecting the boxes (B) from the feed magazine (M) are mounted on a carousel (G) together with the check fingers (34) which ensure the correct introduction of the box into the box filler compartment and its retention when the box is released by the suction cups. The suction cups are mounted on the carousel with the interposition of an oscillating support (6-17-117) which, when the suction cups begin to interact with the box magazine, is orientated in advance and, by suitable means (7-8-108-9-10-11), is made to oscillate in a direction opposite that of the rotation of the said carousel, at a speed such that the motion obtained from the carousel is neutralized and the box can be extracted from the magazine, substantially with the same means as used in present static devices, from which the equipment described herein differs in the possibility of operation with continuous motion and consequently with higher output.