Abstract: A device for feeding products, e.g. soaps, from a manufacturing machine to a wrapping machine, and comprising a first and second conveyor belt cooperating with each other and powered at different speeds. The first conveyor belt presents a number of equally spaced supporting elements for respective soaps, having respective reaction elements designed to flank a first side of a respective soap. The second conveyor belt presents a number of equally spaced positioning elements, each designed to flank a second side of a respective soap opposite the first side. Each reaction element faces a respective positioning element and defines, with the same, a compartment for receiving a respective soap and the size of which, measured in the traveling direction of the first and second conveyor belt, is greater than that of the soaps at the point wherein the soaps are transferred into the compartments, and is gradually reduced until it substantially equals the size of the soaps at a point downstream from the transfer point.

Abstract: A system for picking up randomly-spaced items in particular cakes of soap, off a first conveyor belt and transferring the same in equally-spaced manner on to a second conveyor belt; which system comprises a rotary conveyor traveling between the first and second conveyors, fitted with a series of equally-spaced pick-up heads, and traveling at a predetermined greater speed than the first conveyor; and an electronic control system having processing device for detecting a position wherein a pick-up head corresponds with an item, and for consequently enabling, by lowering and applying the suction of, the pick-up head for picking the item off the first conveyor; which processing device also provide for disabling, by cutting off the suction of and raising, the pick-up head, for releasing the item and transferring it in controlled, equally-spaced manner on to the second conveyor.

Abstract: A machine for boxing items in groups, in particular sticks of sweets or similar, on which the sticks are fed in successive layers into a compartment for forming the aforementioned groups, which compartment is open vertically and designed to move, along a supporting surface, between a loading position and a bending position; in which bending position, each group is placed on the center portion of a respective blank which is bent about the group by a box-shaped bending assembly; the aforementioned bending operation being performed in two stages, during the first of which, the aforementioned bending assembly moves in relation to the blank and the group which are stationary, and during the second of which, the group and the blank are moved through the bending assembly by virtue of two opposed pushers.