Abstract: An apparatus for applying angle members to a pallet supporting a stack of containers, said apparatus working in conjunction with a known type strapping machine having a fixed vertical support and a mobile horizontal support, and comprising magazines, constrained to the vertical support, for holding angle members, and an angle member moving device, constrained to the mobile horizontal support, for withdrawing the angle members from the magazines and positioning the angle member on the pallet corners.

Abstract: An automatic apparatus for discharging loose products, such as fruit, vegetables and the like, contained in the generously dimensioned crates that are commonly known as "bins", are open at the top and have their lower part provided with a support plate in the form of a pallet. The apparatus consists essentially of: a lower full bin infeed platform connected to a de-stacker group that progressively reduces a number of bins placed, for example by a fork lift truck, on the lower platform and feeds them, one at a time and one after the other, to an oscillating frame provided to tip the individual bins through more than 90.degree. until they have been completely emptied; and an upper platform, positioned above the one to which prior reference has been made, onto which the emptied bins pass, this being connected to a stacker group, the purpose of which is to form the empty bins into piles which are then picked up and are sent back to be filled anew.