Abstract: The turntable 1 bears eight rods 3 on which are mounted stacks of packages 4, which are brought on slides 20. The latter recoil each time to allow the stack to drop onto the table 19, then advance to push the lower package 14 towards a drying station where a jack 25 descends thereon and applies it on the rotating plate of an individual drying machine. This plate lowers inside a vessel; it rotates to ensure drying; finally, it rises and the dried package is pushed by the following one onto a corridor 28 which takes it to an evacuation conveyor 27. The drying stations may be disposed in a circle and various means are provided to ensure guiding of the packages between the turntable 1 or equivalent and the various stations.