Abstract: An article transfer apparatus for loading rows of hot glass articles such as bottles, from a cross conveyor, through dead plates, to a linear conveyor of a lehr, utilizes a pusher bar mounted on a system of a horizontal parallelogram frame and two pairs of serially coupled vertically oriented parallelogram frames, articulated at their corners and drivingly interconnected in order to impart bilateral, advance and backward, upward and downward movements to said bar--maintaining always its vertical position and perpendicular orientation regarding the rows of bottles advancing on the cross conveyor while sweeping out said rows of bottles.