Abstract: A system for conveying flat products, such as folded newspapers. The products are received in imbricated formation on a first conveyor and passed to an intermediate or transfer conveyor, the receiving and of which is at a lower level than the discharge end of the first conveyor. The transfer conveyor accelerates the products to a conveyor which has gripping members that receive the leading edges of the products and which moves at a slower speed than the transfer conveyor. The acceleration of the products on the transfer conveyor assures that the leading edges are received within the gripping members.

Abstract: A method of packing biscuits and similar flat cakes into elongated boxes of the type adapted to receive a pile of biscuits with the axis of the pile extending in the longitudinal direction of the box and with the single biscuits in the pile forming an oblique angle with this direction, the biscuits being filled down into the box through an elongated opening in the top side thereof, whereafter this opening is closed normally by means of a transparent sheet material.