Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the automatic boxing of bags or sachets into cardboard containers, fed by continuous strips of bags or sachets coming from the packaging machine.The device according to the invention provides no means of removal, transport and boxing of the cut sachets since the containers to be filled, according to this invention, stop directly below the cutting edge, under the right-angled projection of the first sachet in the row which is to be cut. Therefore the stack inside the container is formed automatically by the sachets simply dropping one on top of the other, through the force of gravity.

Abstract: A process and relevant machine and has for its object to provide a means for packing individual drinking straws, or similarly shaped articles, in sealed strips consisting of two "films" which can be either hot or cold welded. The stages of said process are as follows:(a) formation of a compact line of straws arranged and cross fed along an inclined plane onto which they are released from a hopper where they are stacked;(b) removal of the first straw from the aforesaid line with the simultaneous arrest of the second one;(c) conduction of each straw into cut-outs provided in welding rollers.