Abstract: Device for conveying a series of spaced apart articles to a processing machine, in particular these articles being formed to groups of a specific number comprising a drivable conveyor belt system with a run running essentially horizontally which can accommodate the series of articles, and which runs parallel to and at a distance from an endless chain on which a number of equally spaced drivers are mounted the drivers being movably mounted in such a way that they are placed only after passing a control element in a position projecting relative to of the conveyor belt system between articles lying thereon, which control element is fitted so that it can move to and fro over at least a portion of the run of the endless chain parallel thereto and is coupled to a first device which can give a signal for each passing or incoming article, and near the downstream end of the chain a fixed second device is present which for every passing group of articles can give a multiple "p" of these signals, so that these signals a