Abstract: A tarpaulin can be connected by clamp devices to a beam assembly for transfer of the beam through a tarpaulin handling machine. The beam assembly has a number of parallel, through beam rods and on each beam rod a number of beam tubes, which are alternatingly rigidly connected to a corresponding beam tube on a neighboring beam rod and are rotatable on the beam rod.

Abstract: 1. A tarpaulin (23) can be connected by means of clamp devices (1) to a beam assembly (25) for its transfer through a tarpaulin handling machine. The beam assembly has a number of parallel, through beam rods (30) and on each beam rod a number of beam tubes (33), which are alternatingly rigidly connected to a corresponding beam tube on a neighboring beam rod and are rotatable on the beam rod (30).

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically packaging products in packages includes a collecting station, a delivery station, a packing station having a shaft-chain device with carrier members and a conveyor which travels through the delivery station and the packing station. The carrier members collect products at the collecting station and carrying the products across the conveyor. The packing station also includes fingers located in the path of movement of the carrier members to contact a first row of products and cause the products to drop into packages which are conveyed by the conveyor. Preferably a sealing station including a sealing plate fixed to a rotatably mounted ring is also provided. When the ring is rotated, the sealing plate rotates in a circular, sector-shaped path to fold over the cover of a package to seal the cover to a bottom portion of the package.